Dunno, Dr. Evil actually seemed to like Mini-Me

That’s just the campaign. They’ll slap an 8/10 on the multiplayer and call it a day. It’ll sell gang busters again, then when they do the same thing again next year, no-one will bat an eye.

I’m one of the unnamed crew of starbase 80, for sure.

Absolutely, it’s worth talking about since it’s not a new phenomena with Tolkien’s work. We should be mindful of these kinds of interpretations and be clear about how we, as a community, respond.

They’re Star Treks room of requirement (fuck JK btw), they are whatever size you need them to be

The inconsistent size of Jeffrie’s tubes is one of the things I love about the franchise. Sometimes crawl through them, sometimes run. Who fucking knows!

There are definite themes of ‘old’ or ‘ancient bloodlines’ making better or stronger men and elves, as arda generally declines in many ways. Look at Númenor and its genetic legacy. It’s a short leap for fascists and racists towards blood and racial purity nonsense, and the decline of, or assault on, so called ‘Western civilisation’ from the ‘hordes’ of eaterlings and haradrim. It’s a narrow minded and surface level view of the literature, but morons aren’t exactly known for their media literacy.

It’s the 24th century. No-one cured baldness because they’re past caring about such nonsense

The episode could’ve been called Shades of Cave(s)

The arrested a 16 year old and a 69 year old man. I just want to know why the person did it

Same. Great episode. I love the interplay between these two

She starts off pretty acerbic with a clear bias toward Data, but they were definitely going for a character arc with her and she started having some character growth as the season went on. She later encourages and supports Data when he’s having a mini crisis about losing at stratagema, and she takes an innoculant so she can drink the poisonous tea Worf offers her. Then they brought back Bev and we never got to see it really pay off. Then for ages Crusher is barely anything more than set dressing and a ‘will they won’t they’ relationship for Picard. I always thought Pulaski was a more interesting character than Crusher and the show would have been better for keeping her.

True. Unfortunately, holding people in the transport buffer is one of those things you have to entirely forget exists if you want to tell certain stories. The transporter in general could trivialise a lot of story beats.

I’ll admit. The empire stuff is what is keeping me in the show. Lee Pace is excellent!

It’s nice to get that context for Seldon, but the whole ‘life flashing before their eyes, deathbed flashback’ trope took me out of the episode.

Getting whiplash with how many times Seldon is dying and being resurrected ATM. Even if this is a fake out, it’s getting a bit much

With all of Robert Beltran’s nonsense, I’m thinking they should leave Chakotay where he is…