Not really laws, at least in the US. So long as they don’t claim it’s made of things it isn’t, they can say “well the packaging clearly states it’s not real, actual leather”.

I stopped caring too much after he was allowed not only to stay on, but actively work as chief security officer AFTER HE HAD KILLED A MAN in a blackout state.

From what I understand, the bigger issue was that the producers thought the networks would get cagey if they went any further with queer representation. You must sadly remember that this was the 90s - not even ten years since a White House press secretary had openly laughed in a press conference about gay people dying of AIDS.

My dad actually got involved in something like this. He got rejected from a job after a background check company confused HIM (a 59-year-old white guy) with another guy (a black 32-year-old man) who happened to share the same name, in the same city, and provided the contracting company with information that stated my father was wanted for felony larceny. I think we wound up getting something like $700 from a small class-action against the background check provider, and it got settled out of court because someone blew it up with the local news.

G’Kar and Kira sharing war stories.

I want an entire show about Admiral Vance, because I’m in love with Oded Fehr’s voice.

“You’re welcome on my ship. God ain’t.”

TBH, O’brien’s been on the Enterprise long enough to know that when weird, seemingly powerful creatures start talking to you, you should be very, very careful. Even if they present themselves as storybook characters.

I thought it was the one like Babylon 5.

Sulu: I’ll protect you, fair maiden.

Uhura: Sorry, neither.

Generally speaking, plane crashes are like train crashes. Either most everyone survives, or most everyone dies pretty quickly, with very little in between.

Goddamn I love that episode.

And after that, most of the “good” admirals we meet are commanding their own ships still.

I imagine the easily recognized Borg were easier for networks to swallow than “the enemy is a bunch of parasites that are almost undetectable.”

Don’t forget Sisko.

Paramount wants it off everything and out of production so they can practice the dark art of tax writeoffs with its sacrifice. If they aren’t selling it or streaming it anywhere, they can claim it as a business loss.

Just think, this was a guy who was at D-Day. And the best thing he considers in his life was saving a young woman’s life through nothing more than words and a promise.

To be totally fair, they were being produced during the writer’s strike.

Zed from Pulp Fiction.

Specifically, he’s the reason Hollywood is where it is. After his company invented movie cameras, he attempted to collect royalties on any movie created by an Edison camera, even having people harass and ruin movie sets and studios if they didn’t (as most movies were being produced in and around New York). So a lot of studios said “fuck you, you wanna collect, you’re gonna have to work for it” and moved across the country to California.