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My immediate answer is that "time" decides, and that whatever happens, "time" ensures that it happens. You could attempt something as push a ball off its' course/direction and "time" would either set up an alternate event to insure continuity or make that ball make an improbable course correction to ensure that continuity. Countervailling theory is that the ball goes off course, a second timeline with new events starts, branching off the first, while the first timeline continues as it would. ST (as well as other "timey-wimey" fictions) plays fast and loose with both. In this instance, re: Pike winding up as melted flesh on top of a Roomba with minimal communicating ability seems to be one of those "fixed" continuities that "time" will always make improbable course corrections to ensure...

Well, at the time of "Trials and Tribbleations" I think the ST fanbase was (finally) willing to handwave the appearance thing and "We don't discuss it with outsiders." There was a short story in a Star Trek book (I read decades ago) that kind of laid out some sort of plague/genetic tinkering giving rise to that more Terran looking Klingon. The book "Rules of Engagement" (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Engagement) seems to delve further into this, but books are not canon...

My somewhat incorrect belief was that not all of the Klingons changed their appearance to look like TOS Klingons, and that those Klingons we saw in that series were akin to "sleeper cells". They were favored to engage the Federation at that time because they looked more human. However according to the Wikipedia entry...

In this "Verse" does Green Arrow/Oliver Queen have some sort of Wolverine healing factor? I'm pretty sure that a half-dozen guys beating on you with truncheons is going to at best have you black and blue, lying as still as possible on a cot, pissing blood. However, next scene of Oliver he is sitting up in his cot, not particularly worse for the wear. Incredibly prison badarse, however quite implausible...

Truly, the "Age of the Pimp" is ending... The scene where Larry almost meekly gave his former girl the money was so out of "pimp-ness". If he had still been true to "pimp-dom" he'd have bounced her head off the table. Larry truly has been bit by the acting bug. I couldn't tell if Donna/"Darlene" was disgusted or disappointed or saw that there was a sliver of opportunity with Larry knuckling under. Rodney looks as if he is about to get strung out on some serious narcotics in his attempt to get Dilaudid. I have no reservations about him getting some without a prescription. "CC", the most styling of all the pimps is dead in a most useless manner, but he went out pimpin'. Had I been stabbed in the chest, I'd have walked myself out and gone to a hospital. It was supposed in these PreviouslyTV parts that he would kill Lori for daring to step out on him, but he dismissed her instead. This was a good episode, and I will concur I don't know what Armand Assante was supposed to bring and yes, it is a little disappointing to see him having gone to seed. I will imagine it was just for the episode and he looks as well as a man of his age does when he cleans himself up and puts on a good suit...

Kory after burning "Father" to a crisp asks Rachel, "Do you know who I am?" I said, "Er... Fire Woman???", though I'm sure if I had actually been Rachel, I'd have just shaken my head with an emphatic "No." I'm liking the show a lot better than I thought I would, I am surprised by all of the cussing. There is a lot of it. Who is the guy who is so interested in cutting off Hawk's man parts? Is he a canon comics character?

I'm ganna piggyback on my previous post. How old is Appa supposed to be?! The actor who plays him was born in 1972, seven years after I was. Granted, there is /some/ culture difference, but it's like he's a Korean parent from a generation earlier...

I know. I'm not sure if the show is funny or if the show creators are serious or even if a father like Mr. Kim still exists...

Sorry, but barely 2mins into the show I said to no one in particular (I'm in the apartment alone), "WE'RE SAVING ROCK AND ROLL AGAIN?!" http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-legends-of-tomorrow-save-rock-and-roll-and-stop-elvis-super-ghost-guitar

So, the dog thing paid off, but... Anyway, I'm waiting to see where the gun fits in if we are going to be revisiting themes and situations. As we know, when a gun is introduced, someone gets shot.

When I saw the red orb necklace last week, I thought it looked very much like the necklace the "Mighty Isis" wore back then. I kept thinking the same thing this week's episode. Who knows, maybe they will call her Isis. Then decide it's not a good idea...

I'm going to go under the belief that such things hadn't been widely understood or documented at that point in time, so the testing and protocols seen in the TNG era haven't been implemented.

Star Trek continuity error. Party/Funky dance music died around 2113 after the post atomic horror of 2054, along with most post-'50s Rock and Roll. Only Classical music, with a Jazz music discovery/revival around the TNG era...

I think someone at Marvel Studios must have a grudge against some dude named "Ward". Why else would the douchey bad guy in AOS and "Iron Fist" be named so?

I'm actually liking this for the link between "Here, My Dear" and "Metal Machine Music".

Is it wrong that I laugh every time Wyatt shoots someone with his automatic pistol in the past?

I have to say, Mr. Eichorst I LOVE your hat! Kind of one part Yul Bryner "Man in Black" and one part Quentin Crisp "Naked Civil Servant". Edit: I have to say I got a kick over Eichorst kvetching to Kelly over getting passed over to be the vessel for The Master AGAIN(!).

I'm of the opinion that every story in "Black Mirror" is basically taking place in the same world at different time periods in history, mostly the near future and the far off future (like "15 Million Merits"). A lot of the technology seems related, things implanted in the eyes, and the video game taking place in a fraction of a second outside of Connor's mind seems related to the technology in "White Christmas" where they would make the cookie think that it was experiencing days/weeks/years in time periods of minutes outside of it's experience. So this particular story really bummed me out more than any other. At the end of the episode I just exclaimed, "Oh Connor..." and sighed. He was very "American" in that boisterous, goofy "Golly gee-wiz!" way and I think that was an intentional choice to portray him that way. I did figure that when he was on his flight home that he was still in the game, but I was saddened to see his mind corrupted and then damaged and his resulting death. That said, loved the fight between him and Sonya.

The username of one of the guys in the techno-Cyrano De Bergerac group that Matt was hosting for Henry was "PieApe", the insult that the jerky dude in the '15 Million Credits' episode kept calling the janitorial staffer who kept getting reflected in his teevee screen.

I guess I've been taken over/co-opted/made a 'pod person' for BDH. I'd seen her in stuff, but she never really registered heavily as there is another actress who she resembles (And who is annoyed by this) . No doubt some Hollywood nepotism is responsible, but she is good enough that I would label it "good nepotism". This was an amusing story and BDH was able to cover a number of bases, dramatic to the comedic and yes the story was lighter than the usual "Black Mirror" which I started watching this past weekend. My girlfriend found the series either too bleak or too ridiculous.

Reading that wikipedia entry, I just have to say, "Deng..." After these incidents the core, originally known as "Rufus", was referred to as the "demon core".

Are there going to be any comments on the 09.27.2016 episode?

Darius and Earn attempting to trade up from the phone to the samurai sword to the pit bull offspring reminded me of THIS I agree with the below. I find it wearying at times.

I was kind of hype for Ghost Rider, but in the end, I think I just wound up having this episode after an underwhelming first half playing in the background. I agree with pretty much everyone said re: Daisy. I'm over her and I wish she hadn't been so closely tied to the Ghost Rider story. At all. The whole episode seemed like a mid season episode and not what was needed for a season premier.

Born in Abilene, Texas, U.S.A., Lyn Collins began her recording career aged 14. Her biggest solo hit was the James Brown-produced gospel-style song "Think (About It)", from her 1972 album of the same name on People Records. The song contains 5 breaks which have been widely sampled in hip-hop and drum and bass, most famously, the "Woo! Yeah!" and "It takes two to make a thing go right" loops in Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's It Takes Two which is composed almost completely from samples of Think including a few lines of Collins' vocals. James Brown - Think (About It) Featuring Lyn Collins