It’s Madame-ing Time!

I’m confused by the references to not getting paid. He did The Departed for free?

Ooooh. That guy.  Is he ever not evil and/or creepy?  

Note: The Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth are not the same thing.

That’s why no one rewatches Alien (or any other movie), I guess. Knowing what will happen removes all tension.

Haven’t you heard of the Stunt Man Mafia?

Martin gave them bullet points of where the series was going, which they subsequently raced through like a bad PowerPoint presentation.  Note that they had already diverged from the books well before that, so it’s not like they could follow the books 1:1 anyway. 

They knew the series was incomplete when they signed on, and they knew how long books 4 and 5 took to get written. There was no guarantee that the subsequent books were going to be written in time for them to adapt.  If they can’t write a show without the author holding their hands, they shouldn’t have signed on in…

I like his chicken.

Anyone who got too horny got assigned to an away mission.  Problem solved.

Kind of a quid pro crow kind of thing.

Worth noting, though, that the part was cut down drastically when Eddie Murphy passed on the role.  Winston is introduced much later in the movie than was originally scripted.

Sony will rerelease it when the “It’s Madame-ing Time!” memes take off!

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he killed Hitler.

Huge respect to Roddenberry for kicking off Star Trek. But TNG didn’t get really good until they kicked Roddenberry to the curb, so I don’t see his “vision” as necessarily being all that great. And, by all accounts, he didn’t like Wrath of Khan, so his tastes are questionable.

No apologies necessary. They’re both part of the Republican agenda of stripping away all worker protections.

Indeed, although the concept you are describing is “at-will employment”. “Right to work” laws allow people to work at unionized businesses without joining the union.

Post-credit scene.

Ortega wasn’t fired.

Beyond the nostalgia factor, I think a lot of modern TV has gone overboard with the serialization.  I’m not a fan of shows hitting the reset button at the end of every episode, but I think many shows have gone too far in the other direction.  Sometimes it’s nice to have more self-contained episodes.