"Snipe-O" just doesn't have quite the same ring to it though, does it?

I couldn't care less, so I went ahead and Wiki'd the entire plot earlier. Sounds dreadful.

"Do not cry for me. I am already dead."

Gesundheit.

Damn. There goes my idea to make a black and white short about Warf developing drink and drugs dependency issues, and ending up selling his body for Romulan Ale on the strip.

I hear ya, I think it's mostly just the casting that threw me.
It's like if Empire opened exactly the same way with the battle on Hoth, except Luke's doomed co-pilot was played by Jack Nicholson or someone, you know?
Casting Von Sydow so randomly in such a tiny, thankless part just seemed like a very distracting way to…

I really sort of expected one of these characters to be a young version of Max Von Sydow's Lor San Tekka.
I really enjoyed TFA but starting it all off with a much-loved veteran thespian who was new to the franchise talking and behaving like an old fan favourite character was weird.

"Captain's log …"

But … what if THAT's not real either? :o

"How does Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out the hard and painful way that he eats very much the wa—"

I had a dream that was just like this once. It was a very bad dream.

*awkwardly strobes up to cool kids rocking out at party van. Waves …
…
Instantly strobes into the background.*

You think they keep hiring her because she works for Subway coupons and supermarket vodka?

And here I was hoping for Gilbert Gottfried.

I couldn't agree more. The last ever episode exemplifies that really well … was it messy? Absolutely. But friggin' beautifully so.
I'll always take a show that has so many fascinating ideas it's physically impossible to integrate all of them cohesively over one that doesn't have any at all.

I was just talking about the Star Trek movies here yesterday and found myself thinking about how great his Wrath of Khan stuff was.

Grandpa Joe is everything that's wrong with the world.

Which trend?

I think my favourite is the guy in the red windbreaker who was like, "What? No. No, fuck you train, you're letting me on. Thaaaaaaat's it."

"Most successful at making you mumble 'what the fuck', feel sad for a few moments, then get on with with your day":