By Chris Snellgrove | Published 20 seconds ago While it’s a great episode in most respects, many Star Trek: The Next Generation fans have learned to hate the episode “Booby Trap.” That’s because of a creepy subplot in which Geordi LaForge begins falling in love with a hologram of fellow engineer Leah Brahms, and he makes things insanely weird (we’re talking incel: the final frontier) when he runs into the real woman in a later episode. However, those fans should know that it could always be worse: originally, this hated plot was going to have Picard interacting with Brahms and ultimately saving the day. Why Star Trek Almost Made Booby Trap Worse Having the lead actor participate in this cringeworthy Star Trek storyline may very well have made “Booby Trap”
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By Chris Snellgrove | Published 29 seconds ago The Deep Space Nine Season 1 finale “In the Hands of the Prophets” inadvertently made Star Trek history by breaking with The Next Generation tradition of season-ending cliffhangers. This helped the spinoff establish its own identity, but an early idea for this episode would have ruined the finale by tying it directly to the adventures of the Enterprise-D. That’s because the DS9 producers toyed with the idea of making this finale a TNG crossover in which Picard, Sisko, and their two crews would have to fight off a Cardassian invasion. Deep Space Nine Finale Nearly Became TNG Crossover On paper, this would have given the first Deep Space Nine finale a connection to “Emissary,” the premiere episode that featured a memorable cameo
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John Oliver has weighed in on Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s clash at the White House on Friday, saying “the whole spectacle was awful.” During the televised meeting, Trump called Zelenskyy “disrespectful” for not wanting to make a peace deal with Russia on his terms. Vice President JD Vance also urged Zelenskyy to thank Trump for his efforts, asking him: “Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?” Despite the conversation going off the rails, Trump — in a nod to his reality TV roots –acknowledged, “This is gonna be great television, I will say that.” But, according to Oliver, “that depends.” Popular on Variety “Is watching the president shit on a weaker ally for not wanting to be conquered while his goon VP tries to see
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Kailey Schwerman/Showtime When season 1 of “Yellowjackets” debuted back in 2021, few predicted what a phenomenon the series would become, including the show’s creators, Ashley Lyle, and Bart Nickerson. For the uninitiated, “Yellowjackets” tracks characters across two timelines: the first, in 1996 after the nationals-bound Wiskayok Yellowjackets women’s soccer team’s plane crash lands them in the Canadian wilderness and thrusts them into barbaric survival including cannibalism, and in our current day 25 years later where the now-adult survivors are still plagued by whatever it was that happened to them (or what they did) all those years ago. While the characters all have their own individual plotlines across both timelines, the show is at its best when it’s operating as an ensemble cast. Fortunately, after the heartbreaking end to season 2