Hang on, lemme swing by fanfiction.net…d'you want a Bashir/Kermit, Bashir/Gonzo, Bashir/OC, or Bashir/Beaker (of which the search engine gave me 147 hits for some unfathomable reason)?

I think that was the approach the novelverse took. IIRC, there was a TNG-two parter called "Gemworld" that revisted Melora and her home planet, which was described as a giant low-gravity artificial environment built by ancient aliens and colonized by later aliens.

Oh, she was supposed to be Dax? I knew she was one of the original ideas for the cast, but I didn't know that.

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I've always secretly wanted to see someone write a real version of Meditations on a Crimson Shadow, mostly because it sounds like a pre-WWI future-war novel written by vaguely Prussian aliens, and to me that's just the awesomest thing ever.

@avclub-b894e4330aeaa46a373292d17c62984d:disqus : Eh, you can still graze on the stuff written in the 1990s (which is almost entirely one-shots) and some of the miniseries (particularly Vanguard, the DS9 relaunch, and the first eight New Frontier books), but I personally haven't bothered with the newer relaunched…

He's also Australian, so we know he also takes his beer seriously too. Now we just need to find out if Roy Orbison brings him to tears.

But @avclub-e0f48a1058f0f0204b22d4a2fd6f18ae:disqus , what if I don't like bread? What if I like cigarettes? Would they be okay with me stealing that?

I would have thought that the snarking was what made the job bearable. Judging from the output of the Newswire, roughly 94% of all pop culture news is some combination of stupid, ephemeral, and taken way too seriously by someone. If you had to research and treat every story perfectly seriously, it would grind you down…

@avclub-4a51fda79bbd54b4e7327dd6559b6c4d:disqus , there's no easy way to say this…your mother is actually a chicken-wire mannequin with bottle taped to its chest. I wasn't supposed to say anything about it but goddamn it, the lab shut down eight years ago! It's time to smell the coffee, man!

It's probably a Barton Fink situation where he only had the one story in him.

Well, the setting is one of increasing mechanical industrialization and of modernization, and if our own history is anything to go by, if you get through a century of that with only two rounds of ethnic cleansing and one war that leaves half your major cities napalmed down to the bedrock…then you actually got off…

NO HAY TUPAC!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

As for me, I went out on Friday to see The Cabin In The Woods. It was actually a complete spur-of-the-moment decision to go; I literally decided to go about halfway through my shift at work. I'm glad I did, though. I'm still digesting it right now, trying to figure out if it's as "clever" as it appears to be, but my…

My personal favorite was the bit where the Tramp finds a red flag that fell off the back of a pickup, and starts trying to flag the driver down by running in the middle of the street and waving the flag…only for entire brigade of IWW men to come pouring out of a side street and start demonstrating right behind him.

What exactly is going on between you guys? Is this just random troll nonsense or something else?

Never let dogmatic fealty to reality get in the way of a good pun, Les Neals.

I'll also throw in the MiB cartoon and the one based on the American Godzilla movie (which was better than the movie because it had Godzilla fighting other monsters nearly every week).

Same deal here, even though I was only a very casual fan of the cartoon.