Clifford Simak didn’t write Little Fuzzy. That was H. Beam Piper.

3 meals a day are fine. So are two meals a day or five. That was precisely MFK Fisher’s point, paraphrased in the article’s introduction. What you eat and how much are far the more important concerns.

Eddington was Valjean to Sisko’s Javier, not Javier himself.

“I was convinced up until the reveal that the “alien” was a sort of scavenging species 0 of the Borg, with the robotic look and the ability to adapt to phaser fire.”

I suspected the Pakled myself. That would have been an even bigger tonal mismatch, so I was glad to find that I was wrong.

You might be confusing Cthulhu with Crowley. Cthulu would be indifferent to most human activities other than boating.

Spouses owe one another acknowledgement of their basic human needs. Everything else is negotiable.

Totally agree about Mitchell. Rong Fu is really good in the role and deserves some love from the writers. Mitchell is a recurring character rather than a regular, so it may not be an apples to apples comparison but still, she’s been there from the begining.

Bring Detmer in and give her some years overdue character development.

Trump reminds me of Baron Danglars from The Count of Monte Cristo. Both are tasteless nouveau riche bankrupts with repellent physiognomy.

It’s not what I read for primarily, nor did I say so. Your supposition is something of a strawman argument. There’s no need to be defensive on McCarthy’s behalf. Any writer receives much worse criticism than that no matter how good they are, often from themselves. We tend to be our own worst critics.

That said, poor grammar pulls me out of a story and that’s a common reaction.

A good writer might use such run on sentences sparingly as a matter of style, to good effect. William Kennedy’s opening paragraph in Quinn’s book is a good example. The quoted passage from Blood Meridian may be another such. As I said, I haven’t read McCarthy and don’t know if such run-on sentences are typical of his writing, so I asked.

Let it burn.

I felt this hard. I spent far too long this afternoon trying to get some useful troubleshooting ideas out of CoPilot for a baffling WordPress SVG problem, but it kept losing the plot. Live and learn.

Yeah, my stupid tablet somehow completed my comment submission before I finished typing it. I finished in an edit.

Jesus, those are some egregious run on sentences. I’ve never read McCarthy, now I’m not sure I should. Is this typical of his writing?

I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.

That’s a fair caveat.

SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn’t buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don’t recall that it was.

To be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan’s transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.

It totally was. It’s no coincidence that it was Scotty who caught the entity and Scotty who is taken over by it years later in Wolf in the Fold.

My only complaint is that Ensign Gamble got this great episode, while Jenna Mitchell has yet to see an iota of character development and more than a few minutes of screen time away from the helm. Of course Gamble had to die for the privilege, so I guess that’s fair. Still, I think the writers owe Rong Fum some love.

That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.