Comments on: Retro Review: Melora

By: SJStar

SJStar — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:41:00 +0000

It would have been far more interesting if Melora Pazlar was killed and not wounded.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:57:00 +0000

Yes. I know “more Klingon than Klingon” was a big part of Worf’s character, but it would have been so nice to see him (and the writers) break out of it in such a major way.

By: Moscow Guest

Moscow Guest — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0000

Why do you find it offensive? Handicap is just a word, which means “something that hampers or hinders”.

Now if your disability doesn’t hamper you or hinder your abilities in any way, it’s not a disability either.

I assume you don’t like the word because it’s been used as an insult to you in the past?

By: SJStar

SJStar — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:04:00 +0000

Boo! This is one of the worst examples of stinking cowardice from just a stinking bully. Clearly your more disabled than me.

By: Seventhbeacon

Seventhbeacon — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:37:00 +0000

That… would have been fantastic to see. He’d be kicking ass like Barbara Gordon/Oracle. Yeah, it was Worf being his usual Klingon hipster. “I’m more Klingon than Klingons.”

By: scott

scott — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:56:00 +0000

Good review as always.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:38:00 +0000

That is a horrible, horrible line. I hope that was one of Dax’s wisecracks. But, if I can right now purchase a trip on the Vomit Comet for such a purpose (and people have), then why would Bashir have to go to such lengths (so to speak) for low-G sex on a fracking space station????

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:32:00 +0000

This sounds like a very interesting episode. Sorry I missed it, I will have to look it up.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:15:00 +0000

The writer of “Melora” misunderstood “Ethics”. Well… after thinking it through some more… partially.
Worf felt himself to be worthless if handicapped; that is the Klingon attitude. What Riker and others tried to beat into his head was, you are NOT worthless if handicapped, and further, you can only be worthless if you let yourself be so.
However, that said, the episode was a muddy mess, and the message got completely torpedoed by the typical series desire to have a regular actor go back to status quo at the end of the episode. I think if the producers had had a real set of balls, they would have kept Worf wheelchair-bound for convalescence for a few episodes, learning new ways to cope and be a badass rather than moping like a big bumpy-headed pussy.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:58:00 +0000

I agree that Bashir regularly exhibited high standards for himself and for others. Also, just because something is not mentioned in an episode doesn’t mean it no longer exists or is happening. After all, didn’t Data’s cat Spot continue to exist even though it wasn’t mentioned in episodes very often? (Well maybe that’s a bad example… since Spot changed breeds almost every appearance, Data may very well have been killing and replacing it for all we know. Or possibly indulging in replication experiments. Or… hey, the cat was never seen outside Data’s quarters, right? Holokitty!)