Well, they needed lots of catwalks for people to hang off of.  But I agree.  I felt that the interior design of the Enterprise was one of the weaker aspects of thev movie.  On the brighter side, the engine room was no longer criss crossed with giant transparent tubes of water.  They still had the brewery look in one scene though.  What's supposed to be in those giant vats?  Dilithium liquid?

Well, I saw the film today.  It was SO much better than the first one.  It certainly wasn't perfect, but I didn't feel I was having my intelligence insulted.

You might want to review Grimm.  That show is kicking ass.  Also, definitely Once Upon a Time.

I never found the Borg all that interesting.  Any time you have a hive mind the individuals of that species have no personality whatsoever making them dull as dust.

I watched both DS9 and B5.  Aside from them both happening aboard a space station I didn't see that they had that much in common.

I had understood that in Genesis people were deevolving into creatures which humans had directly evolved from.  Therefore, a human might turn into a monkey or the mouse like mammal the monkey evolved from or a fish (which is a creature that human ancestors evolved from at some point) but not a spider (or a lemur which is a different offshoot of primates and not a direct ancestor of humans).  But it's been a while since I saw the episode so I might be misremembering it.

Jackwagon, Outcast seems quaint now but I remember when it was first broadcast and, like Kirk kissing Uhura, was revolutinary.  I was at a house party with all my old friends from college and several of my friends there were gay.  They were thrilled.

It was a time when the gay community was just starting to make noise.  A TV show that implied that gays were just like everybody else was bold and daring.  That doesn't make it a great episode but it's hardly as lame as you think it is.

Mellowdoux, Shades of Gray was a clip show, a device used by many TV shows to save money by using clips from other episodes.  It was a particurlarly clumsy script.  As I recall they were making Riker remember specific memories to evoke certain emotions because the chemicals humans produce while feeling emotions would kill this parasite that Riker was infected with (or something).  They were trying various emotions to find the proper hormone. 

The two TNG episodes I hated most were Genesis (did you know that humans evolved from spiders?) and one where the Enterprise was turning into an Aztec temple for some reason.  The episode was written to showcase Brent Spiner as Data had a bad case of multiple personalities.  He chewed the scenery quite well but I was too destracted by wondering how the ship retained hull integrity when it was turning to stone to pay much attention to the acting.

My favorite King adaptation was The Stand, closely followed by IT.

I saw Gatsby and liked it very much.  Why is a movie about a rich guy who throws awesome parties and has an affair with another guy's wife not suitable for summer?  Because it's based on a "classic" novel?  Let me suggest  that stories are considered "classics" because they are good stories and people like them.

I remember self aware holograms in TNG (Moriarty) and DS9 as well.  I think it was generally accepted in the shows that like Data, they were an artificial life form who were entitled to all the rights of a biological life form.

I had stopped watching Voyager by season 6 so I don't remember that episode but it was probably a real moral dilema.