I tend to go with the onsite ore refinery/secure administrative hub theory, though I do wonder if there may have been political motivations behind. Showing the flag would certainly be one; no only to the Bajorans but to the Federation, which was pretty close to Terok Nor back in the day (I think. I suspect Bajor's…

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus I'd always fudged the issue with the replicators by imagining them to be the functional equivalent of factories that operate according to transporter technology rather than machines that create something out of nothing. You have a replicator, a database loaded with…

It makes me think of a glazed ham, which is strange, because everyone knows you're supposed to associate ham with Karl Rove's face, but I always saw Rove as a gigantic glasses-wearing baby who got a White House job that could make use of his poop-throwing abilities.

I could get behind that. They truly are the karma police.

May death come swiftly to his enemies.

But I thought you said Downton Abbey was your excuse to break out the leather pants and mascara…

Well, call you back, 1950s, and hey, keep an eye out for that Mao Tse-tung; he's a bad egg!

I know it didn't fall into the criteria the staff set out for this Inventory, but does anyone remember the Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon from the late 1990s? There was only ever one season of it, but it's still pretty damn funny today. There's a few minor changes here and there, but otherwise it's the exact same…

Okay, free-association time…go!

(Brent Spiner wakes up hung over with a penis drawn on his face in magic marker, again.)

And this is the reason I love The AV Club.

@avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus , "The Return" is partially redeemed for building a version of the Borg that's way more interesting that what we got on the shows. (Different branches of the collective that have different approaches to expansion/assimilation, a more extensive use of biotech and…

Sure, why not? They were driven into the ground on Voyager, and they shoved them into Enterprise for no real reason, so we might as well use them in a reboot movie. There's nothing left to salvage at this point.

I'm gonna guess Lazarus, and the movie ends with him having to fight his antimatter-universe duplicate for all eternity.

For me, it's the eyebrow that sells the picture. The pose is insane enough on its own, but that one raised eyebrow gives Lincoln this ridiculously droll air, as if he's thinking "Oh, you thought a zombie apocalypse could impress me? How plebian."

"Tina Fraderick [sic] is a human being who says things." Vervack, The A. V. Club

I'm gonna get a hose.

@avclub-63706c2231765ca840e9a60a76fae00a:disqus , it's been years since I last saw AI, but some stuff I've read about it recently suggests it may be worth a second look. There's a lot of pitch-black cynicism about the nature of humanity, but it's played a bit subtler than what we usually see. Probably the best way to…

I was wondering why I hadn't seen you as much in the new season, Fluttershy.

Hmm…aliens that appear as clouds of glittering gold dust. That actually sounds like the sort of thing I'd expect to see in a Russian SF story. Or even a Mosfilm release from the 1970s.