Oh good, it's not just me then.

Slash's backstory of being Michaelangelo's pet turtle... that's basically the same as this, right?

hurr durr, indeed.

hurr durr, indeed.

No my point exactly was the weak writing. Look I love TNG and can even apologize for/accept most the early episodes, and I love the humanist/utopianist ideals of Roddenberry, but his dictates over the show were unrealistic and counter-dramatic (the Federation in general and the Enterprise crew in specific were not…

Sure, if you can find two non-philosophical thugs. If movies in the 90s and TV shows in the 00s/10s have taught us anything, it's that those are hard to come by.

I remember he died, but I hated it so much/have avoided rewatching, I don't remember how. I thought/remembered that his death was empty and pointless... maybe I'm wrong?

More than a cheat! It felt like someone took a shit in your cereal bowl after you'd only just decided this cereal ain't half bad!

Wait, the last season of Enterprise is fuckin great. I'm rewatching it now. (Not like, this very minute, but... you know).

I agree. Senate ain't people.

And McCoy's position (in their various debates) was often the most — not least — sympathetic. For all his grumpiness, he argued from a down-home, from-the-heart, humanist/emotional position... he was cut from the same stuff as Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut in that sense. Pulaski was written like a somewhat shriveled-up…

"Worked" is a tricky concept here. Since she was resolutely disliked (she was the New Coke that made everyone welcome back Dr. Crusher so happily), she never fit in with the crew, and everything out of her mouth was a deliberately poorly-framed argument that made it easy for Data or Geordi or Picard or Riker to defend…

To be honest, at the time I was reading those, I found the excessive descriptions of Chinese mountains and mountain-bridges a little boring — I felt the same way about the over-precise description of far-future Vatican-ism... but to be honest those two elements have stuck with me the most from that pair of books, and…

Yup.

Re Keffer, I think someone else made that claim, not me, about the demographic thing. But really? He was brought in for the ladies? I would believe that about Marcus, who seems dreamy in that watered-down way that Garibaldi seems Bruce-Willis-esque (which is to say, barely at all, but you can see how the creators…

Yeah, which is why all these comments aside, Marcus is a reasonable choice for the list.

Yeah, which is why all these comments aside, Marcus is a reasonable choice for the list.

Yeah, which is why all these comments aside, Marcus is a reasonable choice for the list.

Re Enterprise being central to every little thing... well, it is a TV show. I can (and probably have) made the same complains about how many times Kirk or Picard has saved the entire universe from crazy gods and secret invasions and time altering hijinks. (In the case of Ent, you could also make the case that back…

Re Enterprise being central to every little thing... well, it is a TV show. I can (and probably have) made the same complains about how many times Kirk or Picard has saved the entire universe from crazy gods and secret invasions and time altering hijinks. (In the case of Ent, you could also make the case that back…