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Re: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Two stars for this turd? Maybe stick to Trek.

Re: DS9 S3: Through the Looking Glass

It's just dumb fun!

Re: DS9 S1: Battle Lines

Holy crap it's Jonathan Banks (aka Mike) from Breaking Bad!

Re: TNG S3: A Matter of Perspective

Ding Ding Ding Ding ...

Re: TNG S5: The Inner Light

Little did they know at the time that Patrick Stewart in old makeup would look exactly the same.

Re: TNG S5: I, Borg

Borg's are essentially 'space zombies'. Zombies are only interesting in brief stints as a plot device for human characters to survive against in an apocalypse type scenario. It's the human survival aspect that's interesting. This is why the Borg got old real fast and the writers had to start adapting the original intent of what the Borg were supposed to represent as to not repeat themselves. There's only so much you can do with the Borg, which is why Borg plots got exponentially more convoluted and weak after the Wolf 359 story.

Re: DS9 S7: The Changing Face of Evil

God damn, this episode was a tour de force! I particularly liked weyoun's anecdote about the Breen's homeworld being quite moderate in climate. The Breen homeworld being portrayed as a frozen ice planet has been a running gag on the show for multiple seasons now.

Re: DS9 S7: Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang

Remember a couple episodes back When Nog was the subject of concern from his family and coworkers because they thought he couldn't distinguish reality from fantasy? Writers?

Re: DS9 S7: Chimera

Telepathy and the ability to travel at warp speed, yet more convenient changeling magic. This was a great episode, but I found the fact that our new changeling friend was so obviously played by the actor who plays Martok distracting.

Re: DS9 S7: Covenant

Wait, Odo doesn't "believe" in the prophets? This isn't a topic bereft of reason, evidence, and basic logic ... like religion. Did Odo not believe in the prophets when they prevented, and apperently continue to prevent a fleet of Dominion ships through the wormhole? Or how about when a prophet took over Kira's body and shot blue stuff at another prophet doppelganger?

Re: DS9 S7: The Siege of AR-558

Tuco Salamanca!!!

Re: DS9 S7: Take Me Out to the Holosuite

How 'bout that Kubrickien, 2001 shot at the very end? What the hell was that?

Re: DS9 S7: Shadows and Symbols

Damn, Klingons cut themselves more than a 16 emo girl.

Re: DS9 S5: The Begotten

It does seem like the writers sort of chickened out at the prospect of keeping Odo a solid for the duration of the show. But seriously, who wants to see Odo live out the rest of series as a solid? It seems to me that the more interesting possibilities exist in Odo remaining a shape-shifter in light of what's coming down the road.

As much as the twist end was a little suspect, I found the fact that the changelings turned Odo into a being with working organs, bones, nerves and skin the ridiculous plot point. What are the changelings, magic? Sentient shape-shifting beings are already stretching credulity for a science fiction show. Lovely episode though.

Re: DS9 S4: Paradise Lost

In Homefront, the time index that Worf recalled during the playback of the initial explosion at the conference was 5-911. In this episode, one of the names Sisko mentioned in Admiral Leyton's confidential list was Snowden. Some interesting synchronicity in an episode about a false flag attack that would necessitate broad and sweeping new powers of the military ... and that is essentially what Starfleet is, the military, despite the fuzzy rhetoric.