The massage therapy was so gross, especially the way Trip and Phlox basically forced T’Pol to do it.

Aye, good point. Sisko especially had a fantastically well-defined off-duty life. Like, this scene below is one of my favorites of early DS9, where he’s cooking for his senior staff... and it’s not just usual cooking stuff, instead making cajun food with a real passion behind it. Really helped sell the character and,…

Also remember how everyone seemed to realize that the Anticans had eaten a sentient being that was under their protection and they just shrugged and decided to do nothing?
Kira would have put a phaser blast in the back of the Anticans head for that. Afterwards we probably would have gotten another speech about how she…

I’d say they did a good job giving the other captains an off-duty persona.

An enumeration of a train wreck can be as long as one has space for. So, towards completionism:

The sad thing is that the massage therapy stuff was at least in service of giving her and Trip an actual goddamn character arc, instead of her being basically the Shrewish Sitcom Mom that tells all of the excited manchildren around her to do things properly. That fucking characterization, can go die in a fire, it was…

Great write-up. Roddenberry was a product of his time and though his vision gifted something of wonder to the world, he was messy in its execution. I think on TOS, he wanted to be progressive but had to swim upstream a lot, which is why we went from the intelligent, cool-nerved Number One to all the women wearing…

It really is a fascinating situation because... well, yeah, Star Trek on this subject is often a “it was often not-good-to-bad, but it was still better than most of the contemporaries” situation.

Yeah the decon chamber was hot garbage (as little as my teenage self was complaining at the time), but I do like how they flipped the script on the Orion “slave girls”.

Surprising omissions here from Enterprise, the show that invented an underwear-only room where characters had to rub each other with lotions.

First off, the concept of the ‘Enlightenment’ is an incredibly Eurocentric concept that has no bearing on Japanese lifestyles. Also, the ‘Enlightenment’ is more or less a historical myth used to propagate European superiority cultivated in the late 1800's and early 1900's as a justification for Imperialism.

Enterprise erasure!!!

My understanding is that DWTS serves to humanize terrible people: Sean Spicer, Tucker Carlson, Mark Cuban, Adam Carrolla, Tom DeLay, Chad Ochocinco, Ryan Lochte, and Rick Perry.

I have so many questions. Who does he think “owns” Puerto Rico? Who did he think was going to “buy” Puerto Rico? What exactly did he think he was going to “sell”? The land? The people? The buildings, fixtures, and equipment? What was he going to do with the money from the "sale"? 

Jin is the head of his clan, an aristocratic warrior who never wanted for anything in his life. Why is he so eager to squeeze every last resource from the people he’s supposed to be protecting? Life was hard before the Mongols arrived, and now villages and farms are burning. Those supplies would be much more…

Coming from a man who ran a casino, a place where it’s basically legal to steal money from people, into the ground, well, this is not unexpected news.

This is what happens when people in this country are dedicated to believing that a low melanin count, wealthy parents, and a Y chromosome automatically equal intelligence and leadership skills.

This is why every idiot that says “we should run the country like a business” deserves to be punched in the face. Not only is Trump an absolute failure of a businessman, but it’s a totally nonsensical idea.  What about the 3 million American citizens living on the island?  Will they be sold along with their land, or…

If by “his father, the actual real estate mogul” you mean “his father, the successful slum lord who had to be forced by the courts to treat brown people like humans and was once arrested at a Klan rally for protesting NYPD brutality against Protestants”, then yeah, right on the money.

“divest of that asset”, he said