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Why is Michelle dressed in a grunge look? Did they give her a costume for a 90s themed comp by mistake?

Watched some more season one episodes. Prime Factors and State of Flux were some of my favorite episodes in the original run. Prime Factors is good because of the ethical implications Janeway and the crew wrestle with. Yes, introducing new stories to a culture driven by them could change the dynamics of the planet, but it was hardly on par with the (already thin) protecting a society from being invaded. It was interesting having Tuvok and Carey flip and try to obtain/use the technology. I tend to agree with what Tuvok did. Janeway really should have taken the hit and the tech...even if it meant she was court martialed. The episode really suffers from the casting. The aliens of the week that flirt with Janeway and Harry leave much to be desired. The biggest issue with the plot, though, is the ending: it has to be used at the planet and it's incompatible with Federation technology. Pretty lame cop out. I did enjoy Janeway chewing Tuvok out...and him basically telling her not to lecture him on logic. State of Flux is interesting because you have someone from the Maquis not falling in line and being honored to be a Starfleet officer and trying to live up to it. The reveal that Seska was was a nice twist for this show and I got a laugh that yet another member of Chakotay's crew was a spy. One of the bigger problems with the episode is that there's not enough suspects. From the beginning, Seska is the biggest suspect because she's a Maquis and caught near the Kazon. Carey's tossed out as a possible suspect but it's a half-hearted attempt at best. The mention the covert messages could have been sent by anyone in engineering but B'Elanna's never considered? Or any of the other Maquis in engineering? It just all leads to a very predictable ending with her revealed as the traitor. It would have been far more interesting if they had more reason to be suspicious of Carey early in the episode, but kept doing the story as written with more mounting evidence against Seksa and still have the Cardassian reveal. Have the crew believe she's a traitor and lock her up, until somehow they finally discover it's been Carey all along. They could have mined a lot from Janeway having to deal with a Cardassian spy on her ship who's been working as a productive member of her crew and wanted to continue to do so. Would she trust her? Would Seska always been the first blamed every time something went wrong? If Janeway treated her different just because she was a Cardassian then Captain Principles would have been a racist. Seska had solid relationships with Chakotay and Torres that could have been explored post-reveal. Janeway's stone cold look when Seska put her on blast was awesome, but I would have traded it in for Seska staying and use being spared every bit of nonsense that came after. Unfortunately, for a show that screamed out for recurring secindary (and even tertiary) characters, the writers could never be bothered to focus on anyone outside the main cast.

Anne comes across as an increasingly unpleasant person with each progressive appearance. She's shown herself to be quite hateful when in competition mode but know we know she's equally bad when judging peers. She should get together with Melissa d'Arabian because neither of them can judge without being an arrogant, condescending nasty piece of work. I suspect we'll be seeing her back with Rachel Ray in Worst Cooks: "Celebrity" soon. Alton mentioned her as the host of both versions and the celebrity edition aired in the fall last year. I haven't heard if it's coming back, but the new head of FN is obsessed with "celebrities" so I have no doubt its's about to inflicted on us again.

With the followup option...bake brownies with Tyler.

I didn't like any of the Spend a Day with Tyler options. Where were: Ask Ted Allen to hookup him up with Kyan for shaving tips Spend an hour in the sack then kick him out (let's keep the combo to a minimum, please) Take him to a doctor to see about that head bobbing tick

Tregaye is not getting her own show. She will be one host of The Kitchen Sink, which is a 1/2 half hour off shoot of The Kitchen. The show is not based on a concept applying to her as an individual, nor is it a new show to the network and she will not even be the sole host. Which makes her "prize" the single biggest joke in the show's--if not Food Network--history. She likely could have made more money going on Camp Cutthroat. They're one step away from sending the "winner" directly to the GGG judges table, which I was assume what they will do next year.

This is totally The Amazing Race 8: Family Food Truck Edition. Right down to the shitty route.

I watched (or tried to watch) some first season episodes of Voyager for the first time in many years. Caretaker was just ok. It was a pilot so there was a lot of exposition but the biggest annoyance is still the lame plot point that sets up the entire series: the Kazon can't get the Array. Ok, so leave behind some explosives. Or worst case, leave behind one person to blow up the Array but let the ship get home. Surely Janeway, being a good Starfleet captain, would make that sacrifice. The Caretaker is just weird too. He and his people feel guilty for destroying a world to point where he stays around for thousands of years. But he has no qualms about stealing ships from around the galaxy and ripping their crews away from home. Killing some of them is bad enough but he can't send the rest back where got them? Glad his sense of responsibility has limits. Several of the early episodes are tedious retreads of old Trek episodes and sci fi tropes. Parallax, The Cloud and Time and Again are pretty big snoozers. Ex Post Facto is just dreadful. It's a bad take on TNG's "A Matter of Perspective" (which wasn't a good ep to start with). Paris being inappropriate with an alien chick, being accused of a love triangle murder. Tuvok playing Jessica Fletcher was enough, but the ending was cringworrthy. In a scene practically ripped from a Perry Mason episode, Tuvok implicates the killer by letting in the family dog to prove he had been to the house before. A dog. A freakin alien dog makes the ID that gets Paris off the hook. There were a couple of bright spots. The Vidians are somewhat interesting...but I had to fast forward through all the Neeelix crap. Janeway's mixture of disgust, anger, hatred and pity for the Vidians was well played. Eye of the Needle had some good moments. I like Janeway building her rapport with the Romulan captain. I did feel bad for the Doctor when he asked to be turned off before they left because although apparently no one thought that far ahead, if they had been able to beam back they would have destroyed the ship.

From the beginning o the season I've had a nagging suspicion that Dr. Scott isn't dead. But Dane is playing Chandler's grief so sincerely, even in private, that the only way that begins to work is if Michner ordered her declared and placed in hiding in the name of national security. I suppose Scott could have been injured so badly and fell into a coma to where she was effectively dead and that's why Chandler acts as if she truly is. Either way, Scott returing would be a very soap opera-y twist.

I am sick of the paper plate (?) commercial with some family dinner where they're questioning gramps about meeting grandma. I find the whole thing highly annoying and slighty creepy. I have zero interest eavesdropping on a "real" family conversation. You know why? Because real family conversations can be boring enough if you're part of the family. If you're not? Excruciating. I'm also tired of the chick shilling for the "Honest" company. She has two amazing children. Amazing y'all! Uh, no. I'm sure they're lovely kids but maybe you should stop introducing yourself as the parent of amazing kids so you don't come off as an arrogant douche and they don't develop as special snowflake complex.

That's why I said the post-TNG era., as in a period where their ages would make sense.

Another alternative is that the Discover is from the era between Enterprise and TOS, but it's actually thrown forward in time creating a third timeline. If it's sent to the post-TNG/DS9/VOY era, then you have the opportunity to see alternate versions of any of those crew members and they can play around with revealing details of the alternate history.

The Defiant was small but it was still bigger than a shuttle (the runabouts were basically glorified shuttles). It had not science labs, holodecks or other amenities but was armed to the teeth and was overpowered to the point of nearly shaking itself apart (but of course O'Brien was able to solve that problem even after Starfleet's ship designers couldn't).

They really meed to do a crossover with Person of Interest. Samaritan could tell Frank to take a Gas-X and stop farting to get a special, tell Paulie if he uses the working fucking one more time Martine will be sent into snap his neck, setup Corey and Victor on a blind date in the Paris room (changing the code on the phone so they can be alone) and tell Michelle James is really a North Korean agent out to get her and they'll be extracted when they both get to sequester so she'd better not vote him out. And twirl. And sway. You really have to sway to that song.

When he Defiant was introduced on DS9, Kira states Starfleet doesn't believe in warships. Sisko points out officially she's classified as an 'escort ship' but the implication is it's their first warship.

I believe on TOS is being shown uncut. The phrasing on the commercial is a little misleading.

MeTV had Mission: Impossible a few years ago. They cycled through the entire at least a couple of times. It was a good show, but it definitely lost something when Rollin and especially Cinnamon left. None of the permanent replacements held a candle to her and most of the guest agents of the week were passable but were no Cinnamon.

I'm not thrilled about it being a prequel. The last series tried that and wasn't terribly well received. We've already covered meeting the Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans and Andorians and saw the Federation formed. The relaunch novels had some ideas that would have made a good springboard for a new series. Or I remember an idea floated years ago for a story set several decades after the TNG era that would have the Federation split in two by a massive Omega particle attack. The series would have followed a ship patrolling the new frontier s the Federation tries to recover. And although I'm not a fan of the new timeline, they could have used the destruction of Romulus in the prime universe as a starting point for the show.

Did you see that wink Corey gave Victor? NotGay my ass. Or his. Paulie looks like one of the creatures Marvin the Martian rehydrated to go after Bugs.

His ego.

No, but a few centuries ago it could have given us our own Brexit without a war.

Cole Porter.

They're probably fixing the Departures sign. I read at the start of the season it was supposed to factor into the show somehow. I assumed it was another twist that fizzled before it even started but maybe it's related to the Battle Back or the post-team phase of the game.

Yeah.....that seems low to me