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Worse. The network went under and they finished up the show with the remaining budget, cramming the front half of what was supposed to be season 5 into season 4. They didn’t get picked up by TNT until after they filmed the series finale. After unexpectedly getting renewed, they filmed a new season 4 finale and pushed the already filmed finale back to the end of season 5. And JMS had to scramble to fill content now that half of it had already been used.

Going to be completely honest, Dexter isn’t worth finishing. The first few seasons are fun, but the show struggles to actually go anywhere until the final season, at which point it goes straight into a ditch. I think I lost any lingering respect for the show around season 6 and kept watching due to sunk cost fallacy and nostalgia for the first couple seasons. I haven’t watched the spinoffs, but the only one that’s finished so far apparently followed the same trajectory over much fewer episodes.

The first Klingon BoP in the movie was originally a stolen Romulan prototype in an earlier draft.

Babylon 5 is literally the only show I can think of with full length seasons and seasons that don’t have episodes wasted on filler, and that really only applies to seasons 3 and 4, when the showrunner personally wrote every single script. He also wrote all of season 5, but there were production issues that messed with the pacing of the front half. The stress of writing 22 cohesive and relevant episodes every year was also getting to him. Somewhere in the 10-14 per year range feels like the sweet spot to me.

That said, a season needs to come out each year, not every other year. When there’s too much time between seasons, the audience and the writers start losing track of how little time has passed in-universe and then characters start getting over things oddly fast.

He was symbolically cast- uh, in a bad light.

The one that guest stars Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, of course.

I was very pleasantly surprised at how faithfully they recreated the look and feel of the TOS Enterprise’s interior while updating it to modern production values. White with red accents was basically Starfleet’s entire thing in TOS.

Uh, your spoiler tag is actually a code tag.

She also was just supplying them with basic goods, not weapons or intel. She also didn’t stab the DS9 command staff in the back or go on a self-righteous holier-than-thou rant when she was caught. For all that Eddington mocks Sisko for taking it personally, Eddington went out of his way to make it personal.

It makes the most sense

Except that it doesn’t make any sense at all because that’s not even close to how DNA or evolution work. The episode is about as scientifically grounded as the one where Barclay devolves into a spider.

There are sites that catalogue both scripts and transcripts. Should be easier to just download those than try to rip subtitles off of the DVD releases.

Spock is only half vulcan, though. Vulcan facial features seem to be dominant, but he may have human nipples.

I hope that network drivers are the next thing to get overhauled now that there’s finally a stable audio system.

I felt they dropped off after jawa5. I’ll admit jawa13 was fun, though.

Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War actually explore orcish culture and morality, the latter game more than the former. Ultimately, they’ve spent all their lives in a Morgoth and/or Sauron cult. The ones that don’t buy into it are more chill, and some show signs that they could be decent or even heroic in different circumstances. Eltariel is able to make some progress deprogramming a couple, but siding with Talion, Celebrimbor, or even Eltariel mostly just has the orcs cast them as their new Dark Lord. It’s probably possible to get the bulk of the orc population into a better place, but it would take many generations of concerted effort at a massive scale. They’d have to replace their entire belief system and most of their way of life just to leave the cult. Additionally, even when not following a Dark Lord, the orcs culturally favor bloodshed to settle conflicts. This isn’t too big of a problem with other orcs since they can take shockingly large amounts of punishment without dying, but it’s a huge problem when interacting with anyone else. And even that’s probably solvable without wholesale destruction of orcish culture, but everything would take so damn long that it’s well beyond the scope of LOTR.

I’m pretty sure the idea behind backing the dwarves to kill Smaug was to deny Sauron a potential asset when the war started.

Voyager’s command staff also had to merge an undisciplined terrorist crew into a rigid military organization. Pretty sure all the trouble makers in Learning Curve were Maquis.

If you’ve ever met someone who is highly intelligent in general and absurdly skilled in their field, that’s actually pretty realistic. Geniuses are just as prone to sporadically making incredibly stupid decisions as the rest of us.

So, whatever critter that came from has copper based blood, right?

There are throwaway mentions of newer warp drives having solved the issue. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class moving is one of the methods.