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Star Trek: Voyager: Twisted  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 6

Being stranded 70,000 light-years from home is pretty tough on a starship crew. Sooner or later, some of them are gonna get a little bent out of shape. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 16, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Non Sequitur  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 5

Life is apparently pretty good for a talented young Starfleet officer fresh out of the Academy: nice San Francisco apartment (small, but with a hell of a view), beautiful fiancée, promising budding career as a propulsion engineer with the Starfleet Engineering Corps, even a local barista who knows his favorite drink order by heart. Sure, he didn't get that shipboard assignment that he wanted, but given Voyager's disappearance in the Badlands with all hands missing, even that's for the best. So... what's the matter with Harry? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 13, 2017 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Elogium  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 4

Ahh, springtime in the Delta Quadrant. When the suns are shining their brightest… the leola plants are in bloom… and a young Ocampa woman's fancy turns to inflating her neck sac, getting foot massages from holograms, and coating her hands in mustard. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 9, 2017 - 25 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Projections  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 3

Once upon a time, I, the Emergency Medical Hologram, dreamt I was a man, walking hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a man. I was conscious only of my happiness as a man, unaware that I was the EMH. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a hologram dreaming I was a man, or whether I am now a man, dreaming I am a hologram. Or maybe it's just another damn holodeck malfunction? And what the hell was Lieutenant Broccoli doing there? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 6, 2017 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Initiations  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 2

And as I switched off the comm it occurred to me, he'd grown up just like me / My boy was just like me…[more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 2, 2017 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The 37's  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 1

According to Wikipedia, the Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter, and an average 1000 light years thick. Doing the math, that puts the Delta Quadrant (¼ of the Milky Way) at a volume of a bit under 2 trillion cubic light years. And, in that staggering volume, Voyager, which is 343 meters in length, comes across a truck (truck-sized), specifically a 1936 Ford pickup. Which can still start on the first try. And that's not the least likely thing that they'll find that day... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 27, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Learning Curve  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 16

WHAT IS YOUR HOLO-MALFUNCTION, CADET? YOU CAN'T SPREAD YOUR FINGERS APART IN A V-SHAPE LIKE ANY VULCAN CHILD CAN? DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT A "V" IS, SON? NEVER LEARNED YOUR FEDERATION STANDARD ALPHABET, IS THAT IT? OR IS SOMETHIN' WRONG WITH YOUR FINGERS? TOO MUCH QUALITY TIME WITH LITTLE MISS ROTTENCROTCH DELANEY? WELL, GET THIS THROUGH YOUR BIO-NEURAL HEAD-SACK: WE'RE NOT LEAVING UNTIL YOU GIVE ME A PROPER VULCAN SALUTE!!! [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Feb 23, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Jetrel  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 15

Say what you will about Neelix--he's irritating, bossy, inappropriately possessive and jealous of Kes--but you have to admit this: he had a bad war. A really, really bad war. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 20, 2017 - 18 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Faces  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 14

B'Elanna is quite beside herself when, after being captured on an away mission, she has unsettling encounters with a couple of surprisingly familiar faces. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Feb 16, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Cathexis  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 13

The Monsters Are Due on Maple StreetUSS Voyager [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 13, 2017 - 21 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Heroes and Demons  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 12

Harry Kim fumbles his initiative while LARPing on the Holodeck. Facing a TPK, the group has to rely on the newb—who rolled up a healer with Strength as his dump stat—to finish the module. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Feb 9, 2017 - 19 comments

Movie: Being There

A simple-minded gardener named Chance (Peter Sellers) has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a Ben (Melvyn Douglas), an influential but sickly businessman, and his wife, Eve (Shirley MacLaine). Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben and an unlikely political insider.
posted by Going To Maine on Feb 6, 2017 - 19 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: State of Flux  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 11

Starfleet captains hate this crewmember's one weird old trick for escaping the Delta Quadrant--their true identity will shock you! (Or not.) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 6, 2017 - 19 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Prime Factors  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 10

Please, come to our planet of pleasure. We ask nothing at all in return. To give you pleasure gives us pleasure. I assure you, ours is a world where nothing can possi-blie go wrong. …PossiBLY go wrong. …That's the first thing that's…ever gone wrong. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Feb 2, 2017 - 18 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Emanations  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 9

Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll beam away/ To that home in the Next Emanation, I'll beam away/ I'll beam away, oh glory/ I'll beam away, in the morning/ When I die, Hallelujah by and by/ I'll beam away [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 30, 2017 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Ex Post Facto  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 8

It was a cold night in the bad quadrant. I was playing flyboy for the kid, Kim. Hired hand, that's all. The skies were black with rain on the way down. Nothing I couldn't handle. I brought the kid dirtside to meet some physicist. They got to talking, and before too long, I'm the third nacelle. Get two science guys together? Forget it. I'd just about checked out altogether…when she walked in. Legs like the Pleasure Goddess of Rixx, forehead like a Terran horny toad. It figured. Next thing I know, she's on me like a Denevan neural parasite. And me without an ultraviolet light source. Some luck. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 26, 2017 - 14 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Eye of the Needle  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 7

Voyager discovers a wormhole that may lead to the Alpha Quadrant; could this be the way home? [checks Memory Alpha; it's the seventh episode of the first season of seven] Hmm... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 23, 2017 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The Cloud  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 6

The crew of Voyager—afflicted with isolation, professional tensions, and resource depletion—pins its hopes on a perfectly innocent-looking nebula and a reasonably competent-seeming Morale Officer. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 19, 2017 - 18 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Phage  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 5

This episode starts off with a very sitcommy bit about Neelix's cooking (which will become a recurring bit), but takes a very hard left turn into horror with the introduction of a strong contender for the title of Trek's Nastiest Villains, the Vidiians. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 16, 2017 - 32 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Time and Again  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 4

While investigating a destroyed civilization, Janeway and Paris get trapped in its recent past. Like, uncomfortably recent. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 12, 2017 - 14 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Parallax  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 3

Voyager investigates a quantum... singularity... thingy. As you do. The real urgent question is, is B'Elanna going to spend the rest of the series in the brig? Plus, the Doctor is being a little short with his patients. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 9, 2017 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Caretaker  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

(Series Premiere) The newly-commissioned U.S.S. Voyager ventures from Federation outpost Deep Space 9 into the Badlands to hunt down a Maquis raider…only to encounter something that, even for the Badlands, is really bad. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 5, 2017 - 43 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: What You Leave Behind  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 25

(Series Finale - Part 9 of 9) "To the best crew any captain ever had. This may be the last time we're all together... but no matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel a part of us... a very important part--will always remain here... on Deep Space Nine." -- Benjamin Lafayette Sisko. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 26, 2016 - 44 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Dogs of War  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 24

(Series Finale - Part 8 of 9) It's nearly the tail end of the war. The Dominion sniffs out rebel bases, yet Damar continues to hound them; Sisko meets a new breed of Defiant; Zek arrives to fetch a new Nagus; and the Bashir/Ezri relationship still gets criticism from Woof Worf. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 22, 2016 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Extreme Measures*  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 23

(Series Finale - Part 7 of 9**) [cover showing Bashir and O'Brien wearing jumpsuits and carrying complicated, incomprehensible pieces of tech; in the background, a brain surrounded by Kirby Dots] The fate of the entire galaxy*** at stake! Bashir and O'Brien brave the hidden depths of the dying mind of the deadliest man in the Federation in a desperate gambit to cure Odo! COULD THIS BE THE END OF... THE EPIC SPACE BROS?!? *not this movie **not that Seven of Nine ***well, a big chunk of it, anyway [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 19, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tacking Into the Wind  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 22

(Series Finale - Part 6 of 9) It is a period of civil war. Rebel Cardassians, striking from a hidden base, will attempt to win their first victory against the evil Dominion. During the battle, Cardassian spies hope to steal the Dominion's ultimate weapon, the BREEN ENERGY DAMPENER, an advanced energy projectile with enough power to disable an entire starship. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 15, 2016 - 8 comments

(Get a) Life After Deep Space Nine

Now that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rewatch is drawing to a close, we have tossed around some ideas about what Star Trek to cover next in recent threads. Let's organize our thoughts here and hash it out. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 13, 2016 - 37 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: When It Rains...  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 21

...it pours... plot twists. The Klingons hold the key to victory over the Dominion, and a canny and judicious leader could use that to hold them at bay until the entire Alliance was ready to join them; unfortunately, the Empire has Gowron. Kira changes her clothes and Garak makes a call. Dukat finds out that when the Pah-wraiths say "for the Kai's eyes only", they mean it. And the only cure for someone's fever (not the sexy kind) isn't more cowbell, and Bashir and O'Brien have to go to the last people (ostensibly) on their side who they want to see to get it. (Series Finale - Part 5 of 9) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 12, 2016 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Changing Face of Evil  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 20

(Series Finale - Part 4 of 9) The tide of the war turns against the Federation Alliance after a Breen attack on San Francisco and the loss of a strategically important system in Dominion space. Likewise, the Bajor Power Couple experiences a profound—and, naturally, bloody—shift in their relationship. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 8, 2016 - 16 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Strange Bedfellows  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 19

(Series Finale - Part 3 of 9) Unfortunately, despite the title, not a bedroom farce (with the deliberate exception of The Power Couple Who Shall Not Be Named), but still plenty to chew on: Martok reveals to Sisko that the real war has just begun, a prisoner is a pain in the neck for Weyoun, Quark pours one out for a homie, Damar considers the man in the mirror (prior to asking him to change his ways), Winn does a heel/even-worse-heel turn, and Worf and Ezri? They're just hangin' out. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 5, 2016 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 'Til Death Do Us Part  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 18

(Series Finale - Part 2 of 9) Sisko knowingly defies the Prophets, but for a good reason. Kai Winn unknowingly defies the Prophets, but for a HORRIBLE ICKY GROSS REASON EW EW EW. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 1, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Penumbra  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 17

(Series Finale - Part 1 of 9) Sisko puts a ring on it, Worf gets a chance to practice his singing, Dax takes a trip down Memory Lane, the Founder gives Weyoun a piece of her mind, a familiar face gets a different look, a new player enters the game, and Kasidy Yates' future mother-in-law has some bad news. It's the beginning of the end. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 28, 2016 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 16

Bashir attends a medical conference…on Romulus. Naturally, the conference turns out to be more than it seems…but, with Section 31 involved, it turns out to be more than it seems that it seems. …Or is it? [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Nov 24, 2016 - 25 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 15

Pretty much everything you need to know about the episode right here: "Bashir, the drink-doctorer, Nog, the safecracker, Dax, the cocktail waitress, Odo, the bag-man, Kira, the decoy, Sisko, the high-roller, Yates, the victim, and, of course, Vic. (O'Brien, the falsely-accused patsy, is not present as he is being strip-searched)" [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 21, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Chimera  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 14

It's never fun when one of your more socially-underdeveloped relatives comes to where you work and embarrasses you in front of your colleagues. It's even worse when you're changelings. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Nov 17, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Field of Fire  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 13

"Well, ClariceEzri - have the lambs stopped screaming?" [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 14, 2016 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Emperor's New Cloak  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 12

Grand Nagus Zek somehow decides that he should go on a trip to the Mirror Universe to explore business opportunities. This probably wasn't one of Moogie's ideas. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Nov 10, 2016 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prodigal Daughter  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 11

A missing Chief O'Brien, a dead woman with Orion Syndicate connections, and a very dysfunctional family all combine to raise one compelling, urgent question: will Ezri get a halfway-decent character arc before the series ends? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 7, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: It's Only a Paper Moon  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 10

A young idealist is so traumatized by recent events that he retreats into a fictitious, noncontemporaneous realm of comforting illusions. But enough about the 2016 election. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Nov 3, 2016 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Covenant  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 9

HELP WANTED: Growing Pah-wraith cult looking for a dynamic, charismatic leader to lead it into communion with the Pah-wraiths in the Celestial Temple. Belief in the ultimate triumph of the Pah-wraiths over the Prophets necessary, actual experience being possessed by a Pah-wraith preferred. Flexible morals OK. Please note: we are an equal opportunity employer, so it is not necessary for you to be a Bajoran. Please direct inquiries and resumes to: provisional government, Empok Nor. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 31, 2016 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 8

Defending a comm array on a barren planet, Sisko, Bashir, Dax, Nog, and Quark are vastly outnumbered by Jem'Hadar warriors—and their only backup is a depleted and war-weary Starfleet unit. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Oct 27, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Once More Unto the Breach  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 7

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. --From the works of the greatest playwright of the Klingon Empire, William Shakespeare [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 24, 2016 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Treachery, Faith, and the Great River  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 6

While O'Brien and Nog are embroiled in the Starfleet version of one of those RPGs where you have to give one NPC soap in order to get the grain to trade with another NPC for the key, Odo is faced with unexpected and mysterious clone sightings. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Oct 20, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Chrysalis  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 5

The Jack Pack is back! And this time they're there to prompt Dr. Bashir to attempt a cure for Sarina's near-catatonia. I'm sure that everything will go fine and that, especially, we won't see a repeat of "Melora" in which Bashir has a problem with keeping a strict firewall between his professional responsibilities and personal needs... damnit, Julian. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 17, 2016 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Take Me Out to the Holosuite  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 4

It looked extremely rocky for the Deep Space nine that day: / The score stood oh to ten with just an inning left to play… [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Oct 13, 2016 - 19 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Afterimage  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 3

There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar/Great expectations, everybody's watching you/People you meet, they all seem to know you/Even your old friends treat you like you're something new/Ezri come lately, the new kid in town/Everybody loves you, so don't let them down... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 10, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Shadows and Symbols  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 2

It's a Bajoran-Romulan showdown at Derna, with the alliance at stake. Meanwhile, the soul of the late Jadzia Dax is at stake in a Klingon-Cardassian battle at the Monac Shipyards. And in the desert, Ben can't remember his name. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Oct 6, 2016 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Image in the Sand  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 1

Three months have passed, and Kira's a colonel, Worf is sad, Damar is hittin' the sauce, the Prophets are MIA, the Pah-wraiths have their own cult, the Romulans are acting oddly friendly, and Sisko's still washing clams. What do the Romulans really want, who's that woman from Sisko's vision, who's the other woman who seems to know Sisko even though he's never met her, will Jadzia make it to Sto'Vo'Kor, and what's up with the baseball? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 3, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tears of the Prophets  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 26

And THAT'S why…you don't ignore a warning from the Prophets. (Season six finale) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Sep 29, 2016 - 31 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Sound of Her Voice  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 25

The crew of the Defiant get to know a marooned Starfleet captain over subspace radio as they race against time to save her life... but they get a surprise once they reach her. And Quark struggles to answer the really important question about Kira and Odo's relationship: how does he make a profit off of it? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 26, 2016 - 13 comments

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