I still can't see the big picture of the show suffering for a lack of Franklin or Garibaldi (both of which, if we're being honest, bug me more than Marcus), but I'm only halfway through Season 4 myself right now. So maybe that'll change.

My first response is, "heck yeah totally!"

You also had the canonical references that humans had never seen a Romulan before (there was that one episode that dealt with/allowed for that), and I wonder if that deterred either the creators or (?) the network/studios from going there, but from a drama standpoint that could really have been played great, I think;…

These remind me of the Tibetan planet from the Endymion books...

Okay but — we can all agree Ivanova is really obviously a lesbian but they weren't allowed to say so, right? I discussed this with my fiancee who watched the show way back when (this is my first time going through it — I'm up to halfway through S4, after the War with the Shadows and Insufferable Garibaldi is being…

Totally... calling him "it," mispronouncing his name, talking to Geordi instead of engaging Data directly — just, weird choices. So antagonistic. If TNG were a TV show in today's style, she'd actually be a really interesting almost-villain among the crew, and the tension and resentment and ideological conflict would…

I know as a white male between 13 and 39 that, while watching season 2 earlier this year (actually only about a month ago), I felt underrepresented with only Sinclair, Sheridan, Garibaldi, Zack Allen, Vir and Lennier — oh, and also the prominent uber-white-male-age-13-to-39 villain Mr. Morden — to represent my narrow…

Too little too late, maybe.

There are a couple of decent episodes with Pulaski, I agree. Also: I mean no disrespect to Diana Muldaur, who I feel nailed the material they gave her (she never felt fake to me; just off-key, wrong-toned, ill-placed and unlikeable — but ymmv).

Second only to her treatment of Data was her treatment of Picard.

I watched this and was SO CONFUSED. The generic-ish looking guy who might be the discount Dr. Bashir from his picture — I could not find him in episodes and his name was always in the credits (for that season) — I thought it might have been some kind of wild meta-joke, but this didn't seem the show for it. Finally I…

Rewatching Enterprise with my fiancee (it just sort of happened) — Season 1 and Season 4 of this show are like, 85% good-to-great.

And she came in acting with a kind of outraged entitlement and snarky smugness to everyone (Picard, Data, Riker, Troi) as if she were their old friend, and was tired of their antics, and was the only one who would tell it to them like it is.

Also a shame because two strong actors. (Full disclosure: I never watched those late season episodes with Robert Patrick.)

This is so awesome. That's all there is to say. Congrats!

I dunno, I'm kinda inclined to go with this,

I don't, to be honest (and now I feel my childhood missed out that I never tried that), though enough humans die in such ways I'm not surprised. The nugget of seriousness in my above "cosmic hyberbrains" comment was, I figured it had more to do with coordinating a well timed deployment of the parachute either…

I suppose that's possible... but it's obnoxiously good coincidental timing if that's the case. (I'll admit, the distances of such a thing absolutely occurred to me in exactly those terms when watching, but I just told myself, "You're right, Travis; the long ranges of this asteroid attack are unrealistic in a movie…

Jake was the chosen one who could ride the Big Mean Dragon Nobody Else Could. He was the bridge between the people (though Sigourney Weaver's [also "white"] character plays a large part there... if memory serves her interaction with them was limited to anthropologist-natives until Jake blurred those lines?). He…

Awesome.