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Pretty early on, I was thinking that Nathon Fillion decided it would be fun to make out with Sarah Shahi on screen. It appears that will happen soon. Next week, America's Naughtiest Home Videos with Bob Sagat.

There's an episode of the (1995 series) Outer limits called "The Awakening" where a woman who was unable to experience emotions was given technology that changed it. The proof it worked was when the TV was on in her hospital room and she chose to change the channel. The root of the word "sentient" literally means to feel. Feelings drive action instead of quantitative analysis. We'd have no flight or fight response without emotions. In Trek, the Vulcans were driven to destructive emotional reactions and chose to spend years learning to control or master their emotional response. So, they chose to avoid emotional displays or attachments, which is a decision based on experience, but it is also an emotional response to the negative feeling of being out of control. At the very least, the Kaylons did not like being enslaved and liked being free to choose their own actions. They decided that it felt good to kill their oppressors. Isaac felt good defending his friends.

This show is heading into Reba territory. The cast is getting loo large, people who want to leave are being kept on in diminished roles and actors are just aging out of their characters. What's worse in LMS is that Mike is exactly the same and Vanessa keeps changing to the point where's she's essentially pointless now. The show isn't really bad, but it's relying on the sitcom formula more than ever.

I watched the episode on a 26" TV from about 6 feet away. I rewatched on a 22" monitor from about 15 inches away. Most of my comments were on the rewatch, but I think the battle was really about the chaos of a hastily assembled Union fleet with no preparation and a Kaylon fleet that wasn't expecting resistance. I could see that on the screen the first time.

It's already well known that Seth MacFarlane is tired of doing Family Guy. If FOX cancelled Orville, I think he'd walk away from the network entirely.

I would have enjoyed it if the Kaylons were destroyed because they tried to fight as a single unit and kept getting taken out on their flank until they retreated. However, I thought it looked good, was well lit and the wide shots showed the scope of the battle. The fighting was basically chaos because the Union knew little about the Kaylon ships and kept adjusting their tactics until the Krill came along to save their asses.

Probably why police departments don't really have Plain Clothes Day.

This show is Tim Allen's last stand. Whenever ABC ended the show he would have called it a cancellation. Ironically, it would have been better if ABC kept it and never did the Roseanne reboot. The show is still posting good enough ratings, especially for FOX. I think the later season(s) of the show will definitely mark a change in overall quality. The only original actors on the show are playing Mike, Vanessa and Ed. Eve is gone most of the time and Chuck came on in season 2, along with new Kristin and new Ryan. I think Tim Allen sees this as a vehicle for him and the kind of sitcom (where the Dad is right) he wants to do. Fox is okay with that because the show does well.

Kelsey Grammer's flashback wig is hilarious.

My secret prediction power had to do with the fact that "Ed negotiates with the Krill" description was already published when Identity Part 1 came out. Now that the show has an arc, I assumed the Krill story was because the Krill were going to lend a hand. There was a 0% chance the Kaylon were going to destroy earth, but it was maybe 2-1 that Isaac was going to leave the show. Once you set the parameters, the outcome falls into place, but you still wan to see the badass battle scene. I think that the Kaylons wanted Isaac to spend more time analyzing the humans but dating Dr. Finn compromised him in their eyes and felt that Isaac might eventually reveal "the plan." It may also mean the Kaylons were less prepared than they could be and only prepared as much as their arrogance let them believe they needed to be.

That was Descent Part 2, which is what I compared this episode to. There was also Hugh, the Borg who was angry at most humans, but drew the line when Lore started torturing Geordi, much like Isaac with Ty.

Plus, a non-biological would be unaffected by biological waste.

My take on this was that Isaac as a neutral observer, found that humans / the Union to be respectful of the others and generally treated him as well (or badly) as any other crew member. The old Kaylons, on the other hand, were engaging in confirmation bias. Their experience with biologicals is that they will disrespect and enslave AIs. So, any evidence that confirms their bias (roots, Mr. Potato Head) is important and contrary evidence is unreliable. Actually, Gordon never said they peed on the floor. They might have created an above ground latrine with a cargo container. Even then, you'd want that thing in a corner, rather than in the middle of the shuttle bay. Yeah, the EMP through the communications system was technobabble. EMPs are the result of energetic sources (like a nuclear reaction) and radiate an all directions. I still remember what Sisko said to Picard about how they met at Wolf 359.

"Isaac, return to poo corner."

Well, damn. That was some Star Trek TNG level writing, pacing and directing. Also felt a little like Descent Part 2, the other Borg 2-parter.

The guy never thought he was being threatened. The kind of person who has a chain link fence and dirt for a lawn knows exactly what he can get away with. He also knows that the LAPD has rules about what you can say to a civilian. He even started to call the watch commander when Bradford offered him special favors if he let the complaint against Chen go. Murdering the neighbor was a plot contrivance to allow Chen to get herself out of the situation.

The Michael Keaton episode and the Roz episode are both clunkers. At least the episode with Roz and Frasier is watchable, but there was no buildup and there was no real motivation for them to get together that night.

That's the problem, though. Let's say Bradford got Nolan as his boot and he didn't like the way Nolan did things and got him kicked out. Was Nolan a bad cop or does Bradford enjoy ending rookies too much? Again, if rookies are (sort of) randomly assigned, how does one TO have quadruple the failure rate of the other TOs? Since plain clothes day is where the rookies have to apply their training, it seems like Bradford trained them poorly.

Unless they really match the rookies with the TOs, it means the other TOs put marginal cops on the street because fewer wash out.

If Bradford had 12 rookies wash out on Plain Clothes Day compared to the others with 3, doesn't that kind of make him a bad TO? His badass cop demeanor is one reason why Chen went all Rampart on that guy. I'm not sure it makes sense than Nolan would want to be a detective since he can "help people" more directly as a uniform officer. That seems more like if Castle was a rookie. It was a change of pace to have West do the less sexy police work. Next week, it's back to an outsized level of danger again.

In ST:Enterprise, the Xindi destroyed a swath of the Earth's surface and killed Trip's sister. I don't know that it added much to the story.

No thanks. This looks a lot like another Blacklist / Blindspot.

Regular people would be sympathetic, but the government wouldn't be. By giving in to a terrorist's demands, she provides an example to future terrorists that threatening family members gets them what they want.

So, the ending of Star Trek: Beyond? "Best of Both Worlds" was a game changer for TNG, but remember the Federation won by hacking the Borg and making them go to sleep. There are too many computer nerds for that to fly now. I also don't want the show to go "dark." I didn't watch BSG and Stargate: Universe because of that crap.

24 spaces would allow for 5 stacks high (with 5 stacks in his pockets) at about 10" high. The pile would be 18" by 20" by 10." You could probably get that in a large backpack.