Cereal:

And Yes, on Stargate's theme. I can pull it up in my memory quite readily and I'm listening to it now, AIFG.

I forgot to wrod this earlier. As soon as I read that, the Stargate theme popped into my head, and you are so right. It's excellent and anticipation-making music.

I also thought the Two-Two-Two Rikers in One! Storyline was kind of stupid. I didn't get how he was supposed to survive down there for a long time, it didn't seem to me like there was a really good food source. Plus it just seemed like a way to give Troi more conflict and she needed less personal conflict and more actual professional work to do on the bridge.

Something else that ended up working better on DS9 (the 2nd Riker, I mean).

Someone on WX said that the theme had been changed.

One can only hope, and now I'ma have to tune in tonight to check. (And then flip to something else when the credits are over)

And Yes, on Stargate's theme. I can pull it up in my memory quite readily and I'm listening to it now, AIFG.

I forgot to wrod this earlier. As soon as I read that, the Stargate theme popped into my head, and you are so right.

It's pretty much impossible to hum both the point and and the counterpoint at any given moment in the music, but that never stops me from trying whenever I hum it out loud.

Suddenly I'm drawing a blank on the SG theme song, which means I'll have to watch an episode when I get home.

Something else that ended up working better on DS9 (the 2nd Riker, I mean).

::coughFarscapeTwinningArccough::

Although I agree that DS9 actually did something interesting with Tom Riker. Did he ever come back? Last I recall he was imprisoned by the ... Cardassians? Dominion? Someone...

The Twinning on Farscape was cool and well done and made sense.

On TNG it was "we're going back to this barren planet--oh! look! It's an exact copy of Riker! Still carrying a flame for Troi!" I forget how long Tom Riker was supposed to have been on the planet but it was barren and it was way to sort of strech out the Troi/Riker love thing and turn it into a love triangle.

Tom Riker on DS9 was good and also bitter about Will Riker stealing his life.

askye, you fell afoul of what my friend William December Starr first called 'Spock's Brain Syndrome' -- a correllate of Murphy's Law that states if a non-fan asks a fan to show them a random episode of a favorite TV show (for instance Star Trek:TOS) it will almost always be showing something like "Spock's Brain".

(This was back in the pre-DVD days, these days it's much easier to acquire a =good= episode like "Hush" or "Our Man Bashir" for toaster-acquisition purposes, but if you rely on random chance/scheduling, you up your chances of ending up squirming in your seat as the stupidest, most watch-from-the-hall episode of your favority show plays on.)

As You Were. I tried to introduce a friend to Buffy, and it was As You Were. I didn't even bother trying again.

The Twinning on Farscape was cool and well done and made sense.

It still wasn't as cool as finding Bashir in the Dominion prison camp wearing the pre-First Contact uniform. That was a mind-frell.

Alexander Siddig/Siddig El Faddil - I remember an interview where he explained that in his culture, names weren't exactly fixed. Siddig was a family name, but his father used a different surname for the immediate family for some reason. And Alexander was the name that he used when he started school as a boy in England. I think one of the reasons he dropped the El Faddil was that his father had died, and he didn't feel the need to keep it anymore. Oh, and he and Nana Visitor named their son Django, and Visitor had a son with her first husband named Buster.

The Ezri thing was unfortunate, though mad propz to de Boer and the crew for doing as best they could with Ezri, even though they only had a season, and were desperately trying to make her seem completely different from Jadzia, but still a Dax, and still worthy of fan love. And a lot of it came from contract disputes with Terry Farrell, and the fact that she'd been trying to leave the series for years, but saved her actual departure until just before the end of the 6th season - but delayed the announcement so the writers just barely had time to write her death.