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Nah, I'm with Chuck on this one. Even when I first watched this episode as a conservative teenager I thought the "9 or 10 days" difference was reductive and dumb. Fundamentalism and religious zealotry are a lot more complex than just minor disagreements over a single piece of doctrine. It's pat and ...

Still, the solar-powered engines of Destiny are a very different sort of beast for power than ZPMs. It's not like they can just open some solar collectors from a distance and boom, you're good - they need to actually dive INTO the star to get that power, and only certain kinds of stars are safe to d...

https://sfdebris.com/videos/babylon5/b5s4e18.php Have to strongly disagree with Chuck's conclusions here about the arc making Garibaldi unlikeable. There was such immense exultation and relief when what happened to him was revealed. As his follow-up actions in the rest of the arc show, this WAS mind...

I think the mindwipe isn't considered that controversial for a few reasons. 1. It's fulfilling Kurn's wish. While there are probably many out there who don't agree with assisted suicide, especially in a case like this where it's a matter of being an exile from society rather than a slow, painful dea...

Spoilers: Blake's decision to spare Travis ultimately leads to his death and the deaths of the Seven as it was Travis who split up Blake from the rest of the Seven at the end of season 2 which eventually led to the infamous shoot em all ending in season 4. To be fair, no one really would have predi...

I'd personally put it at a 5 - typical TNG, intriguing mystery, memorable moments, but nothing too good. I revisit the episode frequently as nice background noise.

https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/e167.php I actually REALLY like this episode. Like Chuck said, none of the three plots was really strong enough to hold out on its own, but all three together make it a good case for having a quasi-"Day in the Life" kind of thing with two B-plots while the A-plot...

It says something when season 2 Picard was more open about saving people's lives despite the Prime Directive than season 7. Yeah, I've got to believe this episode had rewrites or heavy notes altering it - maybe from Berman because this kind of thinking about non-interference carried over into Voyage...

Only thing I'll REALLY disagree with Chuck on this one is about the space for the prisoners. While those precautions are certainly doable (and indeed once again Starfleet's backups fail to be backups), the area WAS set up in a hurry - I can't imagine they took a lot of time to consider EVERY possibi...

I dunno, there were peculiarities like Measure of a Man and Author, Author (especially) where Federation officers made decisions that were way beyond court martials and the like. Well, those two examples involved artificial lifeforms. I have yet to see the Air Force have a court on whether their Pr...