I remember that. It was a challenge to the audience, almost: Everybody likes Picard. Except in Sisko's eyes, Picard is the villain. He's Locutus. Picard murdered Sisko's wife and got away with it.

Man, I totally get why the astronomical naming conventions are what they are, why they're tightly controlled and everything, and it's definitely too early to start naming every exoplanet we find and all that — but when one is getting a lot of study (and press) and is as unique as this one is, at least from where I'm…

Yeah, seconded on both counts. DS9 was a colonial outpost in an unconquered (or un-annexed) region, dealing with the locals and making friends/find common ground.

I can't think of an episode where anyone prayed to the wormhole aliens/Bajoran gods and got the aide they were looking for. I can't think of any episode where the show's main characters (and not, background flocks) were depicted as passively looking to a higher power for solution to any problem they faced.

I'm really glad they never went back to the Q well again (and don't get me started on Vash), but like you say: it was a great and hilarious way to illustrate the difference in captains.

I don't know if that was the reason [whichever nutter Targaryen] had the throne made, I can't remember... but from the writer's standpoint for sure yes: several times throughout the series Martin takes advantage of the Iron Throne to say as much. Ned and Robert and many others reflect in their various ways that ruling…

On the one hand, I want to agree with almost everything you said — the other shows in Star Trek, by and large, treated anything approaching a "god" or "religion" theme with such kid gloves that they only wrote episodes about "god-like" beings or met a planet full of "religious [sometimes noble] savages" rather than…

(ps I totally know that that isn't news to anybody but me, and I know Green is one half of the vlog brothers, who are popular on the gizmodo/io9 family of sites and rightly so — but I found Crash Course randomly, and I was excited, and I wanted to share. And maybe one or two of you out there hadn't heard yet!...)

This seems a good place to share something not-new that I just found via impulsive/bored Google searching, fell in love with, and stayed up one night watching every single episode of — Crash Course!

Yeah, 100% agreed. It wasn't even that it was a terrible ending in itself, it just felt like someone switched scripts for the last 20,25 minutes of the movie. Whiplash-inducing and wrong-feeling. The story begins by posing the question, "Will the astronauts work together and survive the struggles/mystery in order to…

(In all seriousness) "graphic nudity" means penises. Because they are more offensive than breasts. And if it were anything else "graphic" on a girl besides boobs or butts, it would get stronger wording than "graphic nudity" (and stronger rating than R).

Like others pointed out, the only reason "fantasy" exists as a genre (swords and dragons and castles and knights and wizards) is from the old English & Welsh & Anglo-Saxon legends.

Yeah but it looks like the Dude is playing some Medieval version of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn and Maude is playing Bavmorta from Willow. It's all very confusing.

"I mean I try not to put the wrong kind of wording into the Google search, cause if you do that, you can be in a heap of trouble."

If they were melted together by the fire of dragons, I wonder how easy that would be. Plus, softening the chair after seizing it seems a bit unmanly, the kind of thing that might give you the reputation of a wuss king. And of all the kings we meet in these books (and there are a lot), Robert Baratheon seems the least…

Right (I mean, I did not know that, that's cool/awful; but I'd believe it), but in the GRRM books King Aegon wasn't suffering a general malady or a case of figgy butthole... he was scabbed and sore-ridden because the Iron Throne itself was so unforgiving. A thousand swords melted together, but the blades were still…

Yeah, I agree. The in-book descriptions of kings cutting (and even, perhaps, killing) themselves just by sitting the chair — I mean, wasn't Mad Aegon always covered in scabs and sores? wasn't that a thing? — when trying to apply the HBO Throne to that, it always felt sad... a commentary on why kings should wear…

Neat, and definitely nerdy, and fun in one of those impractical-but-eh-so-what kind of ways but — ...aside from like, junk-aesthetic and beeping and lights...

This looks like what media culture likes to make bras look like to/for 12 or 13 or 14 (or 15 or 16 or 28, YMMV) year old boys (or girls, YMMV) who've yet to have the pleasure.

I work with that dog!