i've always loved the exchange between Nog and Jake from "In The Cards":

and, to be fair, it seems like The Original Series was full of starship commanders and pioneering explorers who seemed to just do whatever the hell they wanted once they got out on the fringes of the galaxy - building androids, modeling society on the Nazis, inventing mind-switch rays to get over teh gay, etcetra.

PLUS. to tie your analogy to the current Broadway rap musical (which my lady can't stop listening to) Nimoy dropped that funky Bilbo Baggins song back in the day, so there's the music parallel for ya.

prehensile hair.

Ayn Rand fans?

wow - i had no idea WPBlatty was that religious or had appeared on hokey religious TV shows to talk about his books. i mean, i guess, in retrospect it isn't that surprising, but i suppose i always assumed he was one of those people who'd been raised in the church and was just mining it to tell a good yarn. i had no…

wow - that DOES look simple, and tasty!

Pittsburgh PBS had this recipe once that i tuned in half-way through. they had this huge mound of what looked like parmesan cheese, which they added to a dish with noodles and marinara and i thought to myself "okay, that seems tasty but it's not really that original, is it?"

like vodka!

i'm only upvoting the part about how a lot of people seriously can't cook, but i'd double up-vote that portion of the statement and add a SRSLY FOR REALSIES!!!1! to that sentiment.

no, brah - cool story.

How do you explain other than people not understanding?? That people don't see that he's racist and pandering?

I really like Where's Marlowe? as a companion piece to L.A.Confidential and Chinatown - mostly because the cast is just top-to-bottom excellent but also because it felt like a really nice bookend in terms of showing how the architecture and fashion in the town changes but not much else.

now i'm imagining gandalf is pointing at, and talking about, that little dimple Right There.

is that true? there were some pretty expensive blankets and shit in the Staff Picks a couple months ago - i guess i just assumed AVClub pros were making, well, maybe not dot-com money but at least, like, old-school metro daily columnist money.

He shaid "Schweet pohtaytohz" Miss Munnypunny.

great, now i want a t-shirt that says GET A FUCKIN' LIFE - IT'S ONLY TITS AND DRAGONS.

two of my favorite DS9 eps, right there.

dammit, i thought this was about the Captain Angela Basset tv show.

yes! my bad - i was totally thinking of WINTER KILLS when i wrote that comment, but PARALLAX VIEW was a good choice too. (assuming i'm thinking of the right film - that was the one with Warren Beatty, right?_