Dunno about you guys, but a visual effects blockbuster isn't a winner with me unless it has a viciously misanthropic subtext.

For those of you not terribly enamored with Moore, I'd like to recommend looking up some of Ian Edgington and D'Israeli's collaborations. They're not as dense, but they're short and they have fun with the concepts they work with.

"Mommy mommy there's a bald man in the woman's bathroom and he had something big and hard in his pants!"

Since we need someone to get as obscure as fuck, how about Ingmar Bergman's Pathologic?

@avclub-92561f21446e017dd6b68b94b23ad5b7:disqus: I have heard that story before. However, what I heard was that the whole substance-abuse story was a rumor that sprung up after her first appearance at a con. Apparently she wasn't exactly the most extroverted of people, and this was her first time at a con, and she was…

@avclub-a10e0139fb69e0e5e8e7633b4769e1c6:disqus: I get the impression Voyager was a show that ran on passive aggression. The story I've heard with Garret Wang was that he got tired of being given nothing to do so he kept showing up to shoots late until the producers got pissed off at him in the third season and barred…

I'd hazard a guess that the same thing happened with Chakotay's backstory, since he apparently came from the planet settled by Native Americans in the Cardassian DMZ that WASN'T the one we saw on TNG.

But wait, there's more! In the tie-in novels, it's revealed that Future Janeway didn't get all the Borg with her little virus, and the surviving cubes regroup and start a genocidal war against the Federation that manages to kill about a third of everyone in the Trek universe. The worst part, of course, is that the…

Liked because that is a damned good interview.

But it did get weird with episodes like "Worst Case Scenario", "Year of Hell", and "Equinox", with all these alternate/allegorical versions of the show that were depicting the sorts of situations the actual show wasn't doing. It was frustrating, since you saw this stuff and you realized that it wasn't a case of…

Clancy, you remind me of a younger me. Not that much younger, mind you; maybe even a few years older. I never really hid my nerdiness much, but Voyager was one of the major gateways into Trek, and for that reason I can't condemn it entirely. Still, I don't really have much of an impetus to revisit it, and even my…

I'm not sure if we're ever going to get a book, but once Voyager starts making it to Blu-Ray we may get some retrospectives that shed a little more light on what happened. The Enterprise ones already have Berman and Braga talking about some of the problems that show went through.

Damn, I was actually just thinking the other day that Seska really should've stayed on Voyager. She'd want to get home as much as anyone else, but as an Obsidian Order agent she'd be even more alienated from the Starfleet culture of the ship than the Maquis were (most of whom were former Starfleet in any event) and…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus, fun fact: "Barge of the Dead" was one of the episodes Ron Moore worked on when he joined the Voyager staff. When he started asking the other writers/producers how he should handle B'elanna's character, he was told "oh, just do whatever you want; it's all good."

…oh.

I would enjoy The War in the Air, if only for the spectacle of an armada of German zeppelins carpet-bombing downtown Manhattan.

Also an actual species of dinosaur. Despite the name, it's more closely related to an allosaur than the dromaeosaurs.

This seems like as good as any opportunity to bring this up: back when this song was making the rounds and people were doubting the authenticity, someone ran the song back through PaulStretch to recompress it to its original length.

TORG. DON'T. MAKE. ME. COME. INTO. THAT. SPACESHIP.

I didn't get a migraine when I saw it for the first time on video, but after about a half-hour I had to go and sit quietly in a dark room for a few minutes. There was no pain, just an nebulous…pressure inside my head.