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[http://sfdebris.com/ '''''SF Debris]''''', once known as Sci-Fi Debris, is a website run by Chuck Sonnenburg, a long-time member of various ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Star Wars]]'' online fan communities as well as a big fan of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. What he and the website are mostly known for these days are his "Opinionated [[Star Trek]] Episode Guides", [[Snark Bait|snarky]] reviews of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise.

Since 2008, he's taken his reviews onto a video format on [http://www.youtube.com/user/sfdebris YouTube] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20101214081336/http://sfdebris.blip.tv/ Blip.tv], growing in popularity. His style, a mixture of serious analysis peppered with deadpan humour played over clips from the show, has begun to catch on with other reviewers (including [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], who borrowed one of his ideas). His site also features a few essays (including a history of how [[Spider-Man]] has [[Dork Age|declined in quality]]) and his (two trilogy, 250 chapter) crossover [[Fan Fiction]], [[The Unity Saga]].

On May 12, 2011, ''all'' of his ''Star Trek'' reviews were removed from [http://www.youtube.com/user/sfdebris Youtube], as a pre-emptive measure when [[CBS]] (which has been cracking down severely on other ''Star Trek'' fan channels as well) filed a claim against his "Trials and Tribble-ations" review. As the [[BBC]] has already done the same with his ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' reviews, under the Youtube "three strikes" policy, he now has only one strike remaining. As with ''Red Dwarf'' and other non-''Trek'' reviews, they will now be uploaded exclusively to his [https://web.archive.org/web/20101214081336/http://sfdebris.blip.tv/ blip.tv] account, though he will continue to use his Youtube for trailers.

** He addresses this tendency when he reviews the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]] episode "The Conscience of the King"; ironically, despite affirming his "nothing is sacred" attitude and insisting that it applies even to TOS, he then goes on to give it a glowing review.

** His comment on the characters Tim Russ has played on various Trek shows prior to Russ playing Tuvok in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'', for example in the review of the TNG episode "Starship Mine" where Russ' Maquis character was knocked out by Picard with a Vulcan nerve pinch.

** Mentions he wishes Pulaski would [[LAL.A. Law|fall down an elevator shaft]] again.

** And if there's one thing Commander Gaff hates, it's [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|skinjobs]]!

* [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]]: This bit from his "Where No Man Has Gone Before" review:

** He has referenced the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' tech manual however.

*** In the coda for [https://web.archive.org/web/20120401210132/http://sfdebris.com/startrek/v840.asp the ''Tuvix'' review], Janeway is overtly compared to another crazy female: {{spoiler|[[G La DOSGLaDOS]].}}

** As Chief Engineer Torres has the highest amounts of [[Techno Babble|justifying]] the [[Critical Research Failure|Critical Research Failures]]s that pass for plot, SF Debris often jokes that the only reason she got this spot was by [[Les Yay|sleeping with the captain]].

** The Federation is a xenophobic and pseudo-Darwinist society that [[The Social Darwinist|routinely allows entire planets to perish]]. (TNG: "Pen Pals", ENT: "Dear Doctor")

** Picard doctors the ''Enterprise'''s sensor logs in secret, so as not to let on that his long speeches about the sanctity of the Prime Directive are bullshit.

** Twilight Sparkle as an [[Expy]] of [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]].

'''Ross:''' I was just on my way to get a piece of...[[I HaveNeed to Go Iron My Dog|water]]. }}

* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: "Threshold", "Genesis" and "[[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Dear Doctor]]".

{{quote|"Because you may be bigger, smarter, stronger, faster, but you will '''[[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|never! Ever! Be]] [[Crazy Awesome|crazier]]'''....<small> Than ''meeeeeeeeeee''.</small>"}}

** Out of the ''Star Trek'' universe, he reserves special hatred for early ''TNG'' writer Maurice Hurley, whom he considers not only the worst writer<ref>Or at least the worst long-term writer, since the third season of TOS and the first two seasons of TNG had a lot of writers who showed up, churned out one really awful script, and then were never heard from again</ref> ever to have worked on ''Trek'', but a loathsome human being as well.<ref>Due to the misogynistic overtones in several of his scripts, plus his alleged conduct toward Gates McFadden, which we [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|won't delve into any further]]</ref>. Although plenty of other writers have drawn his ire over the years (Rick Berman and Kenneth Biller for their generally very poor track records, Brannon Braga for his science abuse, Jeri Taylor for her Janeway worship, and even [[Gene Roddenberry]] himself for a number of reasons), he says that Hurley is the only one he truly detests.

** Being a family man, his anger is really apparent in his review of the episode "Real Life" of ''Voyager'' wherein B'elanna's idea of a "realistic" family is a [[Dysfunctional Family]], with the [[Unfortunate Implications|implication]] that well-adjusted families are too "perfect" to be real. He is especially enraged, however, at the clumsy use of a dying child as a plot device for the Doctor's [[Character Development]] as he himself lived through the pain and anguish of watching his premature-born twin sons having to go through several medical treatments without knowing that they'd live through it or or not (they do, but the possibility that he might have lost them has left a profound effect on him).

* [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]]: [[In-Universe|Thinks]] that it'd have been hilarious if Worf went back to the smooth forehead of the TOS Klingons once in the past, only to have ridges again in the ''Deep Space Nine'' future, and have no-one comment on it at all.

** The aliens encountered in ''Unexpected'' are even odder. They reproduce by having the male and female put their hands in pebbles which lets them read each others thoughts, the males grow nipples to feed the child (despite the females having breasts), and the child only has DNA from the mother. It's like Berman and Braga ''deliberately'' set out to make the most implausible and unrealistic species possibles.

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Discussed and turned into a running gag in the review of ''Star Trek Enterprise'': "Where Silence Has Lease".

** and later. He does the voices of the various cast members to summarize the scene:

** The best example of this probably occurred in his "In Purgatory's Shadow" review where he stumbles over an [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]], only to have the following review of "In Inferno's Light" feature an insanely long alliterative discourse detailing the backstory of the events up to this point.

** Yet another great one: In his redone review of "[[Star Trek: Voyager|Caretaker]]", he makes a throw away joke at the fact that Janeway supposedly had plans on Earth while picking up Tom Paris which included "screwing with the replicators" and "installing [a] computer virus". Cut to Part 2 of his review of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' 3 weeks later(!) where Picard is contacted by Janeway. Chuck proceeds to parody the scene by having Janeway explain that the events in the movie were all apart of her plan to take over the galaxy. Among the steps of her plan are to screw with the replicators on the Enterprise-E so that Picard's Earl Grey would be drugged, and creating a program that would make it so that whenever Picard was up for promotion, it would get rerouted to Janeway's file.

* [[Broken Aesop]]: Hope you girls have learned something between "The Way We Weren't" and "In a Mirror, Darkly":

* [[Buxom Is Better]]/[[Gag Boobs]]: His two-part review of "The Outrageous Okona" is interspersed with (mostly comedic) references to breasts, including [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|a point when he stops the review cold]] to conduct a "Battle of the Wikis" between Memory Alpha and Wookiepedia as regards the topic of breasts.

** It happens again in his review of "The Royale," which was ''supposed'' to be a [[Cliché Storm]]: [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] have recreated a hack novel about gansters in a casino. However the episode itself features so many Star Trek clichés that, as Chuck puts it, it's a perfect case of irony.

{{quote|'''Archer:''' ''(raving)'' Me, too! [[Conspiracy Theorist|He was killed by the Vulcans!]] They crept out from under his bed and choked him to death with a heart attack!<br />

* [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch at His ComputerFailure]]: Invoked by name in the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' review. (He was just kidding)

{{quote|'''[[SF Debris]]''': Seven's extremely upset that this idiotic human showed such disregard for their lives for a piece of obsolete junk... and obviously she's considering one day humping his brains out.}}

{{quote|'''[[SF Debris]]''': Both are creative, intelligent, problem solvers, take pleasure in solitude, are interested in self-aware holograms and by alien influence, had experiences, though different, of a larger kind of consciousness integrated with technology, that they eventually had to give up. I think they'd gel quite well.}}

** "Did you know that (TNG: "Haven") was nominated for [[Still the Eighties|Outstanding Hair Styling]]?"

* [[Double Entendre]]: An absolute ''master'' of this, often utilizing either Star Trek jargon, [[Catch Phrase|Catchphrases]], or [[Call Back|Call Backs]]s.

That time every seven years when Tuvok needs to... [[Translation Train Wreck|"taste his wife's false rice"]].<br />

He would like to bend her over his desk and [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|"make it so"]].<br />

He wants to, y'know, [[Ms. Fanservice|"service the Collective"]].<br />

Incidentally, we see Dukat playing more and more with Sisko's ball. ([[Ahem]])<br />

If you feel Rainbow Dash likes other girls to....y'know, '[[Word of Gay|taste the rainbow]]?' Knock yourselves out.<br />

Riker blissfully watching a hologram of two women playing with their harps. <br />

{{quote|'''Sisko''': Yes, the Admiral has a speech impediment. He [[Hand Wave|says "two" whenever he means "four."]]<br />

'''Daddy Bashir:''' [hopefully] So, my prison sentence is ''four'' years?<br />

* [[Drinking Game]]: He suggests one in his review of "Spock's Brain": Drink for every [[Title Drop]]. He is even courteous enough to inform us how many times it happens.<ref>Fifteen, if you were wondering</ref>.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Invoked in his review of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' as a reason Troi is kept around;

'''Troi''': [[Star Trek Generations|I know how smash the ship into things...]]<br />

** Reg Barclay. His imagination, personality flaws and fallibility set him apart from most characters in Trek who often are presented as perfect, enlightened individuals. Chuck posits this as one of the reasons why he became a recurring character in ''TNG'', was so easily transplanted to ''Voyager'' and even showed up in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'', as well as have his work even mentioned in "The Best of Both Worlds", in which he ''didn't actually appear''.

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: He's not a feminist, and still gets offended as extremely sexist parts of some episodes.

** Obviously the last thing we should have expected from [[Star Trek/Recap/S1 /E28 The City Onon the Edge of Forever|the Guardian of Forever]] is to actually... guard forever. Not let some crazy guy jump into the time portal and tamper with history in untold ways.

{{quote|'''Spock:''' Perhaps your new name could be something like "Butterfingers on the Edge of [[Family Matters|Whoopsie, Did I Do That?]]"<br />

'''Guardian''': I've '''succeeded'''! Just in a way [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|far beyond your comprehension!]]<br />

'''Spock''': Yeah, that's not working anymore.<br />

* [[Foreshadowing]]: In his re-release of the Caretaker review, he mentions that rumors are that Janeway was on Earth for other reasons that just recruiting Tom, mentioning a computer virus and tampered replicators. Cut to his ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' review, and as part of an Evil Janeway comedic segment he reveals how those are part of Janeway's plan to take over the Federation and the Romulan empire through masterminding the events of Nemesis.

* [[The Ghost]]: "Lieutenant Nobody" in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'', the ''Enterprise''-E's presumed tactical officer before Worf came aboard, who Chuck invents to mock the fact that no such character appears in the film. Over the course of the review he then becomes a [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] who is utterly ignored by Picard and the others.

** In the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony]] review, Rainbow Dash asks if Twilight is a spy, prompting Chuck to say that they should do a blood test to check if any of them are [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|changelings.]] Cue the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 /E26 A Canterlot Wedding Part 2|season 2 finale...]]

* [[Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It]]: See Jeffrey Combs, under "Actor Allusion."

* [[Hypocrisy Nod]]: Overdubbing "Cotton Eye Joe" during Picard's [[Star Trek: Nemesis|dune buggy chase]]. Boy, what a bunch of schlock ''that'' was. Now stay tuned for the 2009 ''Star Trek'' review, "obviously a movie very, ''very'' different from this one!" [cut to Kirk fishtailing in his corvette to the [[Brick Joke|same song]]]

** The conspiracy nut in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E1S27/E01 Rose|Rose]]" who runs a Doctor-sighting website out of his suburban home.

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' Poor people. Having to put up with this ''hobby'' taking over-- [shouts at family] [[Get Out!]]! I '''told''' you , I am not "playing," '''[[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|I. AM. WORKING!]]''' Now '''get out'''! [comes back] Where was I?}}

** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E01 The Eleventh Hour|The Eleventh Hour]]", a plea for tolerance.

{{quote|'''[[SF Debris]]:''' That sounds about right, [[On a Scale From One To Ten|on a scale of 1 to you have no idea what IQ is, do you?]]}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' review, while Picard and company are joyriding on the clearly pre-Warp planet and making a total spectacle of themselves, he dubs in some thoughts from a different Starfleet Captain:

** Riker wants to save his newfound love interest. Picard notes it's against the Prime Directive, but Riker remains angry. Chuck throws back the same words Riker said in "Pen Pals" to justify doing nothing to save an alien race:

'''Captain Pike: ''([[Once For Yes, Twice For No|beeps "YES]]")<br />

* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: Unsurprisingly, he tends to agree with [[Fanon]] on the reason for Janeway's promotion to Vice-Admiral, name-checking this trope almost as soon as she's onscreen in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]''.

** [[Star Trek: Nemesis|The Viceroy]] kindly [[Audience Surrogate|speaks for the audience]]. "...This was a mistake. We're wasting time."

* [[Les Yay Shipping]]: In his review of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Gridlock" he mentions that, as far as he's concerned, Nyssa and Tegan are the first homosexual couple in ''DW'' history. He considers them having sex for the first time (in [[Fanfic]]) equally as groundbreaking and important as the Face of Boe's final words to the Doctor.

* [[Logic Bomb]]: Tried researching to see if Lieutenants are actually allowed to give orders to a Lt. Commander. But the question was so nonsensical, "[[Google]] justs breaks and starts showing pictures of porn." (''Insurrection'')

* [[Love to Hate]]: It's become obvious that this is how he feels about Janeway. He interrupts his review of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' to go an almost ''three-minute'' tirade [[Alternate Character Interpretation|enacting a hypothetical scenario]] about Janeway unveiling an [[Gambit Roulette|especially convoluted plan that would give her total control of the Alpha Quadrant]].

** He finally admits this in his re-upload of "The Cloud":<ref>Everything after "one bit" is new material - remember, it's been three years since the original upload, and in the interim, his [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of Janeway has become one of his staple [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]s</ref>:

* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]: One particular "burr up [Chuck's] ass" is the nebulous anti-technology philosophy of [[Can't Argue with Elves|the Ba'ku]] (''ST: Insurrection'').

** Sisko designing Starfleet's most advanced warship and name it the "''Defiant''" JUST so that one day he might get his chance at revenge with the Borg. And according to Chuck, the reason why Sisko wasn't in ''Star Trek First Contact'' was that the Borg knew of his awesomeness and waited until he was preoccupied on the other side of federation space before attacking.

** Janeway as well, but also see [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].

* [[Mondegreen]]: [[Gargoyles|Goliath]] getting bounced out of a banquet by his human masters. It's as the [[William Shakespeare|great playwright]] said:

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: This little nugget from ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'':

* [[Neologism]]: "Daleks in Manhatan," best summed up as Incrazulicious.

** Also uses this exact phrase at the end of his ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' review, referring to how the creators of that movie effectively [[Franchise Killer|killed the Trek movie franchise]] for the better part of a decade.

** In "Realm of Fear" (as part of a joke comparing the engineering crew's experiment to replicate an accident to ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]''):

{{quote|'''SF Debris''': "They figure the first thing they should do is go ahead with that repeating the accident plan, and sure enough--''there's an accident!'' ''(applauds)'' Yay science! But of course now we've got to duplicate the myth: we'll need twenty kilotons of TNT, a [[World War OneI]] aero-tank and 16,000 blue M&Ms". }}

{{quote|'''[[SF Debris]]''': A manual override is supposed to work if everything else is ''broken!'' This is like having an emergency light that plugs into the wall or a parachute with a rope that keeps it connected to the aeroplane. You're defeating the whole purpose of making a manual override! Even in a show where '''cheese''' is destroying the ship, that's ''stupid!''}}

** "Sacrifice of Angels:" The Jem'Hadar weren't vaporized by The Prophets. Turns out that it was something even more destructive -- Janewaydestructive—Janeway.

{{quote|'''Janeway:''' It's the Mind Bomb! It runs on [[Human Resources|the power of the human heart!]] [beat] I mean ''[[Heart Is an Awesome Power|emotions]]''. God! Why do you people always assume the worst?<br />

'''Sisko''': So, it amplifies your emotions as a weapon?<br />

* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: "[[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Time-traveling space Nazis]]. Yes, really."

** In "Death Wish" Q decides to summon important figures from human history. Sir Isaac Newton, Will Riker... and some guy from ''Woodstock''.

* [[No True Scotsman]] / [[True Art]]: One of Chuck's [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]]s are fans who sneer down at others for not sharing their own opinion as not being "true" fans as well as fans who dismiss any other opinion as automatically being because the others guys were too "stupid" to get it.

{{quote|'''Vreenak''': "[[Memetic Mutation|It's a FAAAAAKE!]]"<br />

* [[Opinion Myopia]]: Really calls this out in his introduction video for the ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' review.

*** He also defended ''[[Threshold]]'' (the short-lived show, not the Voyager episode) which many people had written off purely because Braga was involved with its production.

* [[Plot Immunity]]: Lampshaded when Dukat threatens to pitch Garak over a railing in Quark's bar. ("In Purgatory's Shadow")

* [[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!]]: "Code of Honor:" "Must...resist...urge...to...make sex joke in teaser!...urk...have whole review to make them!"

* [[Really Dead Montage]]: Chuck, believing that Kirk deserved better than what happened to him in ''Generations'', gives him a fitting sendoff -- courtesysendoff—courtesy of [[Journey (band)|Journey]].

{{quote|"Jesus you're a complete [[Curse Cut Short|cun-]][[Beat|...]]-temptible person. (Heavy Breathing) Janeway was obviously a seven-year-long apology by this franchise for season 2, where the entire female gender is represented by someone who didn't get a uniform and had a haircut created created out of a hatred towards life itself.. And you, Doctor... Pulaski, Doctor Pulaski, Doctor Smug-ass Monkey-face ''Sack-o-'''Shit'''!'' I would try to beat some sense into you, but my parents taught me it was wrong to kick ''livestock!'' Your ''voice'', is like the sound of [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|200lb housefly]] trying rape a cat! In ''fact'', it's scientifically ''proven'', that every time you open your fat gob a fairy slits its wrists! Your ''lack'' of basic humanity is so '''stunning''', I bet polar bears flock to your panty drawer in the desperate hope of surviving global warming!! When Picard accidentally [[Brain Bleach|glimpsed you naked]], [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|he spent hours screaming there were]] ''[[Continuity Nod|Five Lights!!!]]''"}}

I've been with you for mere minutes and I'm already praying for your horrible death in a transporter accident to give you your just end, which I believe will result in a net increase in happiness on a universal level. I am convinced that 4 out of 5 doctors had you listed as the recommended treatment for curing joy, and that's only because the fifth one hanged himself! If I was [[Locked in a Room|trapped in a room]] with only you, Neelix and Okona and [[Leave Behind a Pistol|had only two bullets]], [[Driven to Suicide|I would shoot MYSELF]]. When the Bible says '[[As the Good Book Says...|Love all people]]', there's an asterisk and a footnote that says "<small>except Lwaxana Troi</small>." And speaking of Troy, if Helena had looked like ''you'', it would've been the face that launched a thousand ships '''back home!''' In short, your philosophy that people should only say what they're thinking is undermined by the fact that you are completely ''loathsome,'' marinated in arrogance and heavily seasoned with self-absorbtion, so that the unfiltered slurry that gurgles from your gob unceasingly is a pollutant that I would like to see stopped, either voluntarily, or- by my preference- '' '''plugging the source with a grenade.''' ''<br />

* [[Rock Bottom]]: Ten minutes into reviewing the "[[BLAMNon Sequitur Scene Episode|Masks]]" (''TNG'') episode "Masks", Chuck consoles poor Picard.

** "[[The Main Characters Do Everything|Giving Neelix a Bridge station to manage]], sigh. That's it, ("Unimatrix Zero") you have officially bottomed out. You ''can not get any more'' ridiculous. [Borg Klingon appears] That's it, [[Lethal Weapon|I'm too old for this shit]]."

*** "Like Unto An Amoeba" goes to [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]s.

*** "Smack the Hell Up," awarded whenever an annoying character (not necessarily the annoying character) gets what's coming to them.

*** "[[You Can't Go Home Again|You CAN Go Home Again]]", whenever we encounter a place that looks like Earth, either by deliberate design or coincidence.

**** Ilia got a "Damn Dirty Mutant Lazarus of the Week" in ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]''.

*** And, of course, "Stupid Neelix Moment" (in pretty much every review involving ''Voyager'''s resident [[Alien Scrappy]]).

** "Accidentally" calling the Remans "[[The Usual Adversaries|Orks]]" before catching himself. Undoubtedly, Chuck's mind was on [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|another movie]] he'd ''rather'' be watching, instead of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]''.

** FemShep as a frequent target of his [[Male Gaze]]. "Those teats, [[In -Joke|they have weight]]!"

** Confabs between Sisko and the other ''Trek'' captains. Picard is a long-winded pacifist, Janeway is her typical dastardly self, and Archer is gibbering in a corner.

*** Inverted in "In a Mirror, Darkly": Archer's in charge, with Kirk, Picard, and Sisko all sporting [[Beard of Evil|Beards of Evil]]. In this universe, Janeway (also bearded) is [[New Age Retro Hippie|a sweet-tempered hippie]].

** In his ''X-Files'' reviews, referencing stereotypes about the US state an episode is set in--suchin—such as Idaho and potatoes ("Deep Throat") or Wisconsin and cheese ("Fallen Angel").

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: When Dukat talks to Weyoun and calls him "anhedonic".<ref>Incapable of feeling pleasure or enjoyment</ref>. Chuck replies "Someone got a word-a-day calendar" then makes up this bit.

{{quote|'''Neelix:''' This ship is the match of any vessel within a hundred light years, and what do they do with it? [[Sarcasm Mode|Well, uh, let's see if we can't find some space anomaly today that might rip it apart!]]<br />

'''Kes:''' I don't think the captain is an idiot. She cares a great deal about her crew.<br />

'''Neelix:''' You don't care a great deal about your crew and introduce them to the specter of death at every opportunity!<br />

* [[Shown Their Work]]: His reviews of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' are ''very'' well-researched.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Invoked when he accuses ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' director Stuart Baird of this; Baird, at the time a well-regarded editor and fledgling action director, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|continually got LeVar Burton's name wrong]] (he called him ''Laverne''). Burton, who [[Renaissance Man|has many talents and has been recognized for all of them]], is highly esteemed by his peers and beloved by fans, and is an all-around nice guy, certainly did ''not'' deserve that treatment. As Chuck himself points out, it's basic courtesy and Baird should never have done it more than once.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Chuck portrays Lutan from "Code of Honor" as a particularly unlikable Smug Snake, with every attempt to by Lutan to project authority and confidence failing and instead coming off as an entitled, childish, obnoxious idiot.

** When reminded that ''Insurrection'' is supposed to be 'lighthearted and fun'' Chuck's rejoinder is that the last person who tried to combine Moral Dilemma + Lighthearted and Fun was the Clown in "The Thaw."

** Michael Pillar was convinced that LeVar Burton should have took his [[Raymond Chandler]] parody with [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106062334/http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Banean avian-headed femme fatales and cops] and submitted it for Emmy consideration.

* [[Space Jews]]: Takes a hammer to the concept in his ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' review - or at least, the idea that the batarians match to Arabs because we've seen a lot of batarian terrorists and there was one batarian religious fanatic.

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: In discussing the "big fight" at the end of ''Nemesis'', he reminds us that we've seen bigger on ''Deep Space Nine'', which obviously had nowhere near the budget of a big-screen action flick.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: In the "Body and Soul," he describes [[Mate or Die|pon farr]] as "the need to do the Vulcan salute without the ring finger." Which would look [[wikipedia:Shocker (hand gesture)|a little something like this]].

{{quote|'''RDM:''' You know I'm a sucker for dark corridors and phones with cords on them. Hell, [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|I could do a whole series on that!]]}}

* [[Take That, Audience!]]: "Masks": "What does it feel like...when a person is losing his mind?"

{{quote|[cut to Chiana & Rygel [[HotImprobable Skitty-On-WailordSpecies ActionCompatibility|behind a steamed porthole, with Rygel's hand pressed against the glass]]]<br />

** His response to a homeless bum settling a dispute over stolen bread... by [[Judgment of Solomon|breaking the bread in half]]. ("[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E4S29/E04 Daleks in Manhattan|Daleks in Manhattan]]")

{{quote|'''Chuck''': "That's ''[[Sarcasm Mode|brilliant]]'' justice, taking a page from Solomon there! Who are you? <br />

'''Bum #1''': "I'm starvin', Solomon!"<br />

* [[Theme Song]]: One for every series, and one for the movies, most of them being [[Real Song Theme Tune|Real Song Theme Tunes]]s (though ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', ''[[Babylon 5]]'', ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'', and ''[[The X-Files]]<ref>It's the Blue Man Group cover version of the X-files theme</ref>'' use their own respective themes), generally dating from the same era, and usually with some thematic connection to their respective series:

** ''TNG'': "99 Red Balloons" by Nena.<ref>which notably contains the lyric "Everyone's a superhero, everyone's a [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Captain Kirk]]"</ref>.

*** Though for ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis|Nemesis]]'' he switched it with a [[Shout-Out]] to Patrick Stewart's speech in ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|Oblivion]]'', complete with its theme music.

** ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "Good Lovin'", though a variation of the ''Doctor Who'' theme played during the Cyberman episodes from ''The Moonbase''. <ref>Good Lovin' was by an unknown artist, but originally by the Rascals</ref>

* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Not a big fan of this trope in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'' when discussing the Borg using time travel to assimilate Earth and why the good guys don't use it more often. "And before anyone tries to bring the whole parallel reality argument in...don't. If that's true, then it invalidates when it IS used. You can't have it both ways, that the only time that it works just the right way is when the plot says that it's okay and the rest of the time you can't use it. Look, all I ask is that you [[Magic A Is Magic A|be consistent with your nonsense]], okay?"

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: Notes that Tuvok's attempts to put the Maquis through their paces in "Learning Curve" makes him come off as a massive jerkass, especially when he makes them run a 10 kilometre lap, with full packs and the gravity turned up 10%.

* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: In his review of the episode "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110106172735/http://sfdebris.blip.tv/file/4574217/ Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy]" he translates the lyrics of "La donna è mobile" using the Babylon 8 translation software resulting in this trope. Apperantly the song is about furniture.

* [[Values Dissonance]]: ''[[Star Trek]]'' may have been [[Fair for Its Day]], but [[In-Universe|Chuck]] uncomfortably points out how most of the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' original episodes he's reviewed have been unkind to women (with depictions of them as crazed and emotionally fragile).

* [[Verbal Tic]]: He personally acknowledges one of them - prefacing rhetorical questions with the phrase "You might ask" - during his "The Nth Degree" review.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: He reviewed ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection|Star Trek Insurrection]]''. He ripped it apart. However, at the start of part 4, he theorized about an internal conflict among the crew, with each character having different motivations which conflict with the rest, causing a rift between them. If this had actually been in the film, it would have been greatly improved.

* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: [[In-Universe|References this trope]] several times when reviewing ''[[Gargoyles]]'', in particular how it averts [[Never Say "Die"]]. Also comes up in his ''Clone Wars'' review.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Chuck puts up trailers for his reviews on [[YouTube]]. The [[Star Trek]] trailers are set to the sweeping orchestral theme of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]''. This leads to moments such as listening to this iconic fanfare while watching Archer stare at his dog.

* [[WTH?What the Hell, Casting Agency?]]: Invoked while discussing the decision the director of "Code of Honor" made to cast the aliens of the week entirely with African-Americans:

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Worf seems to have finally overcome this in "By Inferno's Light", laying out 10 Jem'Hadar in a row.

** Chuck theorizes that the reason for this trope's existance is that Worf's commanding officers in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' are such pantywaists that they keep hampering his efforts while giving the enemies time to prepare.

** Hey kids, it's [[Mark Sheppard]]! "Great chance to talk about this performer in a ''rare'' appearance '''[[Firefly|in]] [[Star Trek: Voyager|a]] [[X Files|work of]] [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|science]] [[Doctor Who|fiction!]]'''"

{{quote|'''Chuck''': Hope you're wearing latex contacts if you're going to keep eye-humping her like that, Lt. "Family-Man"!}}

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