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** John Sheridan fights for the [[Tron|Users]].

** Janeway was Aeryn Sun's mother in ''[[Dragon Age]]''. Not that you'd notice.

** In the ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'' review, when Admiral Cartwright (Brock Peters) makes his first appearance, Chuck comments that Starfleet [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|has its best Creole chef on the job]].

** In his ''Star Trek VI'' review, when the "Klingon" assassin turns out to be Colonel West (Rene Auberjonois) in disguise, he says that the disguise is so good that West [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|must be a shapeshifter]].

** During the ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' review, he refers to Dr. Zarkoff's assistant only as [[A New Hope|Porkins]].

** McCoy might not know who the hell [[Clark Gable]] is, but he knows a little something about quality cinema.

** The USS Bozeman is captained by [[Frasier|Frasier Crane]].

** "Jake Sisko got married, started his writing career, starred in ''[[Candyman]]''..."

** Where do you expect [[Alien|Ash]] to go on this spaceship? It's not like he [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|has an invisibility ring]] or something.

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

** And this selection from ''By Inferno's Light'', when Dukat is trying to convince Sisko to convince the Federation to join the Dominion:

* [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]]: The Prime Directive has been torn apart piece by piece for what it turned into as ''[[Star Trek]]'' progressed, pointing out that it was conceived as a guideline put in place to prevent undeveloped civilizations from being taken advantage of. In a few of the episodes he covers, it was basically treated as an all-knowing, unquestionable entity in itself that was almost only ever used to justify ''genocide'' through deliberate inaction.

** In ''Voyager'''s pilot, he points out that the one time Janeway has no trouble ignoring the Prime Directive to actually ''prevent'' genocide, it's to save the Ocampa, a civilization whose people live lives only barely more enviable (or longer) than that of goldfish, which causes him to wonder what makes them so special.

** Outside of the VOY reviews, Janeway is portrayed as the omnipresent, over-arching [[Big Bad]] of the entire franchise, responsible for everything from Shinzon to Lore (she once worked as Dr. Soong's code monkey).

** This has also led to jokes about Harry being Janeway's [[Chew Toy]].

** Due to the show wildly swinging his characterization between a [[Butt Monkey]] and [[The Ace]], SF Debris' Tom Paris frequently portrays him as a sort of [[Great Teacher Onizuka]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]!!

** As Chief Engineer Torres has the highest amounts of [[Techno Babble|justifying]] the [[Critical Research Failure|Critical Research Failures]] 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")

** Starfleet is an insanely incompetent organization run by utter lunatics. (Any given ''Enterprise'' episode)

'''Sf Debris''': What is the matter with Starfleet? You have only one ship to prep, on its most important mission, and you can't even fill out a frikkin' work order form without screwing it up! }}

** The Borg Queen's plans in ''Dark Frontier'' are reminiscent of [[Austin Powers|Dr Evil]]. He then jokes that Seven would be more like Scott Evil, suggesting instead of [[Idiot Plot|highly convoluted plans]] involving probes that [[Evil Is Petty|SLOWLY assimilate humanity]], they could just to they could just take [[More Dakka|20 ships to Earth]] and assimilate [[Pragmatic Villainy|the whole QUADRANT while they're there]].

** Picard's kill-crazy behavior in the TNG movies is explained by Janeway spiking his Earl Grey with testosterone.

** 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.

** His interpretation of all the Trek captains (and their respective series) is laid out in a nutshell in a "scene" from his "Call to Arms" review, where Sisko gathers the "League of Starship Captains" to offer advice on how to stop the Dominion. Kirk suggests giving a [[Kirk Summation]] followed by hitting them, Picard gives some [[Techno Babble]] solutions, Janeway suggests genocide, and Archer just mutters nonsense to himself.

*** Janeway then amends her suggestion to include a portion of Archer's nonsensical ramblings that she liked.

'''Janeway''': That's two votes for "Mind Bomb," we win! }}

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

** Admiral Ross is a corrupt bureaucrat who likes to have a good time with his secretary, and orders sex toys with Starfleet funds.

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

** That in the more miltaristic [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore|post-Wolf 359]] Starfleet, the lower decks are filled with pissed off or extremely apathetic scientists who want nothing more than to study botany and comets, dammit!

** Likewise with Scotty, who he jokes is frequently either drunk or high during most of the Original Series.

* [[Always Wanted to Say That]]: "Code of Honor:" Now it's time for...'''''[[Yars Revenge|YAR'S REVENGE!]]'''''

* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: In-universe, wonders why in "Waltz" Dukat barely reacts to the hallucination of Damar showing up, considering that Damar both ''killed his daughter'' and is reponsible for driving Dukat so insane, he's the reason ''why'' he's hallucinating?!

* [[Anything But That]]: Part 2 of of the VOY premiere. "Now, where were we?"

"Ahhh, much better. [[Loves the Sound of Screaming|Like the crash of waves and the call of seagulls]]..." }}

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: From the "Death Wish" review, Q orates about Quinn's achievements. Specifically: advancing science and mathematics, preventing the conquest of worlds by [[The Virus|the Borg]], and... Woodstock.

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

* [[Ascended Meme]]: In his text review of the ''[[Enterprise]]'' pilot he referred to the ominous figure giving the villains orders as "Future Guy." This was adopted by the fandom and later by the ''Enterprise'' team as the name for the figure who was never given an official name. When he made the video version of the review he mocked this development...

* [[Author Filibuster]]: Multi-part video reviews are usually reserved for the films and for the series' worst episodes, like "[[Star Trek: Enterprise|A Night In Sickbay]]" and "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Code of Honor]]" (and of course, multi-part episodes).

** Certain characters voted "most annoying" also get filibusters against them, such as [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Okona, Lwaxana Troi and Lutan]].

** From his Wrath of Khan review: "Khan Noonien Pecs"

* [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]: Assumes this about ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'':

** When Sisko, Spock and Kirk are on the screen at the same time, his computer shut down for *ahem* ...personal, reasons...

* [[The Backwards R]]: In "The Naked Now", after Wesley states he doesn't understand.

* [[Backstory of the Day]]: Spoofing Chakotay having differing interests.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Janeway's parting shot at the Borg ("Unimatrix Zero").

* [[Badass Decay]]: One of the major problems he has in-universe with "Q and the Grey", and to a slightly lesser extent "Q2", is how the Q were subjected to this.

** He also examined this phenomena with the treatment of the Borg between ''TNG'' and ''Voyager''.

** Likewise, in order to maintain continuity in "Regeneration", the Borg's [[Badass Creed|standard hail]] is drastically shortened as not to identify themselves.

* [[Bait and Switch Comment]]: He has one complaint about Picard confronting Sarek, which is that it makes him want to see them have more scenes together.

* [[Berserk Button]]: He REALLY hates Pulaski, due to her smug condescending nature and utter cruelty towards Data.

** 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).

* [[Best Served Cold]]: In "Trials and Tribble-ations", Darvin aims to even the score with James T. Kirk. To that end, he bides his time for 100 years, swipes an [[Ancient Artifact|ancient Bajoran artifact]], [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right|travels back in time]], plants a bomb [[Killer Rabbit|inside a tribble]], stashes it [[Complexity Addiction|inside a grain silo]], and [[We Wait|waits for Kirk]] to [[Booby Trap|walk directly under it]].

* [[Better Than It Sounds]]: [[In-Universe|He always does this style of synopsis]] for his Youtube videos, dwelling on minor incidents that sound boring or awful. Of course, sometimes the episode in question IS boring and awful, but he does the same kind of synopsis even for good episodes. For example, the episode "The Siege of AR-558", which he greatly praised in the actual review, got this synopsis:

* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: [[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.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In keeping with the theme in "Darmok" of overcoming language barriers, the opening credits appropriately is the original german version of "99 Luftballons".

* [[Black and White Morality]]: While this comes up a lot, he notes that the ''Voyager'' episode "Nothing Human" stands out as actually ''reversing'' this. The major conflict in the episode revolves around whether to use the medical knowledge gathered by Cardassian doctor Krell, who was supposedly inspired by Nazi Doctor Mengele. However, Krell's actions are, while still horrible, not nearly as bad as those of the real Mengele, and Krell's experiments actually produced useful scientific data, as opposed to Mengele, who simply tortured for the sake of morbid curiosity. This, as Chuck points out, actually takes a black and white situation and gives it varying, perfectly defensible viewpoints.

* [[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:

'''Geordi''': *leaves*. }}

* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Points out with eyes like that, how is anyone on Voyager even suprised that Suder is revealed to be an unstable sociopath?

* [[Black Hole Sue]]/[[Canon Sue]]: [[In-Universe|Often points out]] that most of [[Writer on Board|Jeri Taylor's]] episodes are dedicated to how amazing and infallible Captain Janeway is, and how much ''everyone'' loves her.

* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: Chekov asking about the "Nuclear Wessels" was noted by Chuck to have the extra humor of an obvious Russian asking about those in the middle of the [[Cold War]]. Then he said "I am not Russian spy! I am American as apple cake!"

* [[Brain Bleach]]: Kate Mulgrew [[Fan Service]] has Chuck reaching for the ammonia. ("Damn my eyes!") A well-wishing fan emailed him some nude Janeway photoshops just to see his reaction.

** Neelix can do "some [[Unfortunate Implications|wonderful things]] with vegetables!" ("[[Caption Humor|Do not want]].")

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: "Human Error":

* [[Brick Joke]]: His signature technique. Almost happens often enough to be [[Once an Episode]]. Early on, he'll make an offhand joke or aside about some minor story element, and later on he'll make another joke that ties into it.

** The best example of this probably occurred in his "In Purgatory's Shadow" review where he stumbles over an [[Added Alliterative Appeal]], 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.

** Calls back to "Unimatrix Zero" in his review of "Ensign Ro" where Picard can't get involved in helping the Bajoran rebellion. Janeway pops up and claims that they should have called it a ''resistance''.

* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: Invoked in his introduction of Scorpius in one of his ''[[Farscape]]'' reviews.

* [[Broke the Rating Scale]]: Type 1. He's handed no more than one zero score for ''Voyager'', ''Enterprise'', and ''Next Gen'' respectively, on a scale of one to ten, reserving them only for the absolute worst episodes of each series: "Threshold" for ''Voyager'', "A Night in Sickbay" for ''Enterprise'', and "Code of Honor" for ''TNG''. Chuck has made it clear that "[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Profit and Lace]]" is also on that list. No word yet on ''The Original Series''. 0s are supposedly reserved for episodes that make the entire franchise worse by association; indeed, he did not even assign a "0" score to any of the movies, instead giving two "1" scores (though he admitted he was strongly tempted to give a "0" to ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]'', and would probably have done so if not for the flashback involving McCoy's father). On the other hand we have the ''TNG'' episode "Family" which no score was given on account of being too different from the series as a whole.

** "{{color|blue|My Way}} or {{color|red|JANEWAY}}" - Chuck measures how his own Parody!Janeway would handle each scene, then sees how VOY's Janeway measures up. He gives up halfway after the real Captain's actions are more extreme ''than her parody's.''

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

** The Q arc in ''Voyager'' where the Q learn the value of freedom and individuality... [[Aesop Amnesia|for all of five minutes.]]

** ''The Bonding'' (TNG) gives us an interesting example that may be a form of [[Writer Revolt]]. The original draft of the story was about a boy who loses his Starfleet mother in an accident and tries to cope with a hologram copy of her. Gene Rodenberry flatly declared "humans in the 24th century do not grieve! Not even the children!" So it was modified, but the end result was subversive: a boy loses his mother and does his best to not grieve, but it's shown as being emotionally unhealthy and just plain wrong to not feel bad about losing someone and cover it up.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Uses the term "Native American-y" to describe Chakotay's medicine bundle, which includes the requisite bird feathers.

** Referring to a specific medical device (known in canon as a "cortical monitor") as a "neck thingy".

** The [[Insistent Terminology|medicalticians]] in ''[[Night of the Comet]]'':

** Even the Alien's mouth has a mouth. ''That''s how mouthy it is!

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Harry Kim, of course. Chuck points out he's been killed, tortured, made the [[Chew Toy]] of the series and is seemingly horrified of being in an actual relationship. (For comedic emphasis, he showed Harry Kim having a dream about being aggressively smooched by Seven and waking up screaming. Sure, he omitted the part where Seven turned into an alien, but ''everyone else'' in that episode was having nightmares, so that implies he's still terribly uncomfortable around Seven.)

** According to SF Debris, the various incarnations of the USS ''Saratoga'' serve strictly as Starfleet's bitch.

** Archer seems to have demoted Hoshi to be the ''Enterprise'''s delivery girl for the jobs that the others can't be arsed to do. Moments after launching a Subspace Communications Amplifier, which needed to be checked was working properly so that ''Enterprise'' could maintain their link to Earth, he asked Hoshi to find out Reed's favorite food for his birthday, choosing her over any other random crewman, and told her to make it her ''top priority''. It's not as though Hoshi is the damned ''Communications Officer''!

** Neelix himself is something of a butt monkey for SF Debris. He dislikes Neelix so much that even the mere sight of him is annoying, culminating in this Stupid Neelix Moment:

** John Crichton and the crew of Moya have no luck whatsoever, as Chuck explores in the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode reviews- "Premier" and "Nerve" being the most obvious examples.

* [[Buxom Is Better]]/[[Gag Boobs]]: His two-part review of "The Outrageous Okona" is interspersed with (mostly comedic) references to breasts, including [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|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.

** He actually conducts this "battle" twice: once with the original [[YouTube]] review in November 2009, and then he revisits it for the Blip reupload in May 2011. In both cases, Wookieepedia is the clear winner. In fact, he gives the ''Star Wars'' wiki higher marks the second time around, noting the addition of ''George Lucas-approved'' art in which a popular [[Expanded Universe]] character bares her breast.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I'm just a viewer with an opinion."

** Initially it was "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the idiocy that is ''Voyager'' / ''Enterprise''." This was changed when he started doing reviews of the other three ''Star Trek'' TV shows, which he considers far better than ''Voyager'' or ''Enterprise''.

* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: "Federation President [[Terry Pratchett]]" in ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]''.

* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: At exactly [[Establishing Character Moment|18 minutes and 45 seconds]] into the pilot episode, the French captain says:

'''Chuck:''' Make of that what you will. }}

* [[Chew Bubblegum]]: "I'm here to measure soil toxicity and kick ass! '''And I'm all out of samples!'''"

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Surmises that the writers of ''Voyager'' somehow got it into their heads that they had killed off Lt. Carey because after Series One, he simply disappeared from the show and from then on only ever showed up again in episodes set in the past. Then when the writers realised that Carey was in fact ''still alive'', they were forced to bring him back for "Friendship One" in order to ''actually'' make sure they'd [[Killed Off for Real|killed him off]] this time.

* [[Cliché Storm]]: Mocked and invoked in his review of "Twisted", which he considers this.

** Additionally, in "Our Man Bashir," he notes that it starts off as a combination of a shuttle/runabout accident, transporter malfunction with a holodeck malfunction, so the episode was not only delving into every James Bond cliché, but every Star Trek cliché. He warns the [[Red Shirt|goldshirt]] to change his uniform because "he's playing with fire!"

** 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.

* [[Cold Open]]: Of sorts. Many reviews begin with a short scene or moment from later in the episode/movie - no context is given. Then Chuck chimes in with a comment or joke that culminates with his [[Catch Phrase]]. Often [[Viewers Are Geniuses|the viewer is expected]] to already know the context of the scene anyway.

** The "Genesis" TNG review starts like this:

'''Chuck''': Poor guy. Not only is he turning into an animal, he's turning into one that sucks. But then, I'm no special breed either, [[Catch Phrase|I'm just a viewer with an opinion]]." }}

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Pretty much the entire point of Chucks alternate character interpretation of Janeway.

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Notes that Neelix constantly does this, barging in when people clearly don't want him there.

** In his review of "Tuvix", he believes it's Neelix's influence that causes Tuvix understands "Remain still" to mean

* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: In "The End of Time" review, he notes that one of the problems with the episode is the sheer volume of references to past episodes being thrown in, meaning that casual viewers would be completely lost to understand whats going on.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Gives DS9's "Defiant" props that a Maquis character from TNG's "Preemptive Strike", where Ro Laren joined the Maquis cause, was probably the same person that recruited Tom Riker into the Maquis.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Pointed out in "Basics".

* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]: In "The Visitor", Jake looks to the Captain's Room for help in disproving his father's death. Bad idea.

'''Janeway:''' My father died, too, and I [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|totally had an alibi]] and everything. }}

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

* [[Crack Pairing]]: When Deckard has the "unicorn vision" in the director's cut of ''[[Blade Runner]]'', Chuck says that Deckard has a thing for [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rarity]].

** Invoked in his review of "One Small Step" where Seven and Chakotay are continually at loggerheads over his stupid command decisions and his irritation at her attitude.

** Suggests one in "A Look at Reg Barclay" which came out the same day as his review of "Human Error", noting several plausible reasons why, out of everyone in Star Trek, ''Reg Barclay'' is the person Seven would probably be the most compatable with.

* [[Curse Cut Short]] / [[Country Matters]]: The introduction of Dr. Pulaski. "YOU'RE A COMPLETE CUN--!! <small>..temptible person.</small>"

* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: A [[Real Life]] example, courtesy a [[Loony Fan]] (or a [[Fan Hater]], take your pick): According to Chuck, one lunatic ''Trek'' fan threatened him with a toy bat'leth. He refuses to mention other incidents for fear of people trying to one-up them.

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

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]/[[Accidental Innuendo]]: In his "Lost in Time" review of "The Macra Terror".

'''Chuck''': Now we know why he wears that kilt. }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Anyone who can say 'blowing up the ship with Janeway Pie' without even a hint of laughter has to be a master at this.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: ''Thoroughly'' averted. He does tons of research for his reviews, especially for the big named reviews like the movies and controversial episodes. Lampshaded in the beginning of his ''Star Trek V'' review:

* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Or at least it's inferior to [[Pirate|real piracy]], due to how great they look in puffy shirts.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Speculates that Worf actually has named his balls "Honour" and his dick "Courage", which other Klingons then copied. Cue one hilarious montage...

** A [[Real Life]] example: Chuck referred to Twilight Sparkle as "Sparkle, Twilight" throughout his ''My Little Pony'' review, but failed to indicate that this was a reference to [[Film Noir]] protagonists (he had to insert subtitles explaining this, [[Self-Deprecation|even admitting that the joke was lame]]). It didn't help that the 'comma' was silent, making it sound like he was calling her 'Sparkle Twilight', instead of 'Sparkle, Twilight'. Needless to say, especially given the show's notoriously passionate fanbase, it all went over like a lead balloon.

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

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 />

We see Crichton with Aeryn, and figure that he really, really wants to bond with ''her'' naturally. }}

** Repeatedly tries to avoid this (without success) in a scene with Tom and Harry from "Parturition":

** Neelix just can't stop talking about Seven's curtains. ("Human Error")

'''Sfdebris''': A dozen ways to phrase that, and you had to go with ''that'' one. }}

* [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]/[[Black Comedy Rape]]: When ''Enterprise''s "Unexpected" pulls these two tropes with the 'Trip Tucker is now pregnant' routine, this is probably the '''only''' time so far in which Chuck [[Berserk Button|loses his usual]] ''[[Berserk Button|sang froid]]''.

** Invoked in ''DS9'' after the characters cite the Eugenics War, and [[Continuity Snarl|gets the date wrong by two centuries]].

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

'''Sisko:''' ...Yes. And "minimum security" means "pound me in the ass." }}

** Particularly given how Dolby noticed a problem with the gel-packs, went to fix it and was disciplined for not getting proper authorisation first. Then when the rest of the crew realise the problem has spread to more gel-packs (possibly because Dolby was stopped from trying to find the problem), Dolby is then immediately ordered to go fix them.

* [[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 />

'''Picard''': Yeah, I figured that when they were [[Trash the Set|pulling a pine-tree off the Enterprise-D bridge]]. Still, if there's ''ever'' a time when your sole ability, smacking my ship into something else, is needed, I'll let you know! }}

** 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''.

* [[Erotic Eating]]: He repeatedly tries to avoid the awkwardness of this in a [[Ho Yay]]-laden scene with Tom Paris and Harry Kim playing his clarinet, and eventually just gives up. "Because damn it, there's nothing gay about this!"

* [[The Everyman]]: Lister from [[Red Dwarf]]. Chuck points out that over time Lister's progression from someone who's concerned with his own imminent horror in the early episodes, to eventually stepping up and actually giving a damn, is actually a more hopeful version of Star Trek's message that anyone in such a difficult circumstance could rise to become a better person.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: While reviewing "Latent Image," Chuck keeps track of how his parody [[Complete Monster]] Janeway would act in every situation compared to how Janeway actually acts in the episode...and is shocked to discover that canon Janeway actually has a ''more'' evil way of dealing with the episode's central conflict.

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

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Chuck notes in his review of "The Swarm" that season 3 ''Voyager'' titles are extremely direct.

* [[Exact Words]]: The audience's sentiment that "Kirk should die on [[The Bridge]]!" is met with a hearty "[[Dropped a Bridge on Him|No problem!]]"

* [[Executive Meddling]]: He's made fun of [[Executive Meddling]] many times, but in ''Insurrection's'' review, he points out that the executives actually sent a memo pointing out the plot holes in the script and wondering why they weren't better addressed.

* [[Face Palm]]: Picard's 'reaction' to Archer addressing T'Pol ("I'm doing the breast--'''best!'''-- I can.") Riker joins in when the joke [[Freudian Slippery Slope|drags on for too long]].

** "Yeah...sorry, I couldn't find a ''Farscape'' facepalm, so you'll just have to settle for [[Sesame Street|another Henson employee.]]"

** He notes that Bruce Maddox isn't nearly as awesome as his name entails, with something like Douche van Weasel or Irving McFucktard being far more fitting.

** Obviously the last thing we should have expected from [[Star Trek/Recap/S1 E28 The City On 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.

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

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

** The "translations" of the whale songs in his review of ''Star Trek IV'' are by far his funniest use of this trope.

** His coda to "Tuvix" gives us this gem:

** See also [[Translation Train Wreck]] below.

* [[A God Am I]]: The interpretation Chuck gives to Kirk's statement at the end of ''Star Trek V'' that "Maybe God isn't out there; maybe's he's right here [points to self]". It's obviously meant to imply that if God exists he could be in all of us, but coupled with Kirk ''and'' Shatner's ego it does give the impression that he's declaring himself God.

** Riker after temporarily gaining the power of the Q in ''Hide and Q''.

* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Actually, because the [[Mirror Universe]] inverts everything, it becomes "evil is dumb".

* [[Good Ol' Boy]]: He interprets Trip Trucker as a stereotypical [[Deep South]] redneck turned [[Up to Eleven]].

** In his re-upload of ''In the Pale Moonlight'', he [[Fandom Nod|acknowledges]] that he loves making [[Memetic Badass|Sisko is a badass]] jokes.

* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: His guess as to what the hell [[Mass Effect|Joker's]] watching on his private monitor.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: His alt interpretation of Picard is that he is willing to put up with Wesley Crusher just because he wants Beverly ''that'' much.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, Its Mark Sheppard!]]: [[Invoked Trope]] in his review of the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Shindig" when he notes that [[Mark Sheppard]] has appeared in pretty much every sci-fi series he reviews.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [[Defied Trope]] in his review of ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]''. Sulu said he was born in [[San Francisco]], but Chuck said it was just too easy.

** Scotty couldn't care less if you insult Kirk. But if any Klingon talks shit about the Enterprise, "he's gonna get hit in the face so hard, his whole race will [[Continuity Snarl|lose their forehead ridges]]."

* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: Ever-so-subtly implies that Janeway and Chakotay need to work on [[I Know You Know I Know|hiding their suspicions of each other]]. (VOY: "Conspiracy")

'''Chakotay:''' Hmmmmmmmm... that's just the KIND OF THING HITLER WOULD SAY!! }}

* [[Hitler Cam]]: Chuck notes the show's tendency to make Janeway and/or Kate Mulgrew seem taller than she really is in his review of the episode "Parallax", showing a montage of such shots as the song "Big in Japan" plays.

** Notes that Riker acts like a douchebag while confiscating Ro Laren's Bajoran earing, even berating her because it's not proper Starfleet uniform, only to then take her to a briefing where she sits next to Troi wearing a non-standard, low-cut top and across the table, Worf is proudly wearing his Klingon baldric.

** In "''Human Error''", points out the hypocrisy of Janeway berating Seven for not stopping missiles from striking ''Voyager'', while failing to realise the only reason they were in that situation was because ''she'' ordered them into a region that was filled with ship debris and deadly radiation, which turned out to be a Weapons Testing Area.

* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: ''ST: Insurrection:'' - the Cliff Notes version:

** Janeway eulogizing [[Red Shirt|Ensign Jetal]] ("Latent Image"):

** Joked about the tedious overabundance of "Lol-cats" you see posted on the internet... then did one a [[Sight Gag]] in his "Genesis" review.

** On his Mass Effect 2 review where he talks about Jennifer Hale losing a video game voice acting award to Tricia Helfer (who won for Starcraft II) and stating that having Tricia Helfer in a game does not make it better. A few minutes later the review shows a scene with EDI leading Chuck to state that he loves games featuring Tricia Helfer.

** The conspiracy nut in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E1 Rose|Rose]]" who runs a Doctor-sighting website out of his suburban home.

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

** "The Doctor's not terribly happy that someone would burn his favorite planet... well, his favorite planet now that Gallifrey is gone, ever since he-- <small>[[Where I Was Born and Razed|he burned it.]]</small>"

* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]]: Worf even named his ''balls'' 'honor.' He's ''that'' into it. "He also named his dick "Courage," but most Klingons do that."

* [[I Just Want to Be Badass]]: Posits in "Defiant", that one of the motives of Thomas Riker that caused him to join the Maquis cause was a desire to differentiate himself from Commander Riker. In comparison, Will Riker is considered as a hero in the Federation, offered commands and who got all the breaks; while due to a transporter accident duplicating him, the other Riker then spent 8 years alone on a barren planet, only to finally be rescued but find himself now living in his own shadow.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: In "The Best of Both Worlds" Part 1.

* [[Improbably High IQ]]: In his review of ''The Nth Degree" after Barclay claims to have an IQ of 1200-1450:

* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: Referenced in relation to the Soviet-built ''Tsiolkovsky'' in "The Naked Now".

''Well, looks like they're screwed; unable to muck with the tractor beam that can only pull things...it looks like that ship seeking boulder is going to take out the ''Enterprise'' and ''Tsiolkovsky'', which won't make them happy back in Soviet Russia. Wait, that's it! In Soviet Russia, tractor beam will PUSH!'' }}

* [[In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race]]: Or one culture, anyway. Chuck has taken ''TNG'' to task for its apparent belief that the ostensibly multicultural Federation thinks that Earth only follows Western conventions, namely weddings and family names.

** Torres is put in charge of a rock-climbing mission because of her vast scientific experience - "You know, the fact that she doesn't know that space is three dimensions, and that she can't identify crap ''even with'' a tricorder."

** Riker's [[Even the Guys Want Him|valentine to Okona]] - that he's a "man who lives by his own rules. He does what he does by choice. ''His'' choice."

** The Doctor showing off his snaps from last year, taken with the camera he got this season. "He was quite a shutterbug back in that day!"

* [[Insult to Rocks]]: To Counselor Troi. "Why don't you hold that lamp up, so the table isn't out-performing you in terms of helpfulness?"

* [[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:

** ''Star Trek: Insurrection: ''"This village is a sanctuary of life."

** 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:

** His response to Lwaxana Troi's list of credentials. (TNG: Haven)

** "The Bonding" (TNG) comes off as hilarious when paired beside "The Menagerie" (TOS)

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

'''Picard:''' Quiet! No one asked you! }}

* [[Is There a Doctor In the House?]]: Oh great. Immolated [[Red Shirt|goldshirts]]. Where's Crusher when you need her? (''ST: Insurrection'')

* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: Pulaski's insistence on mispronouncing "Day-ta" as "Da-tuh". Chuck notes this is akin to calling the ship the ''USS Enter-prez-say''.

** He's infuriated with the stories that Stuart Baird kept mispronouncing Levar Burton's name on the set of ''Nemesis'', especially since Burton was far more qualified to direct the movie than him.

** Pokes fun at the early attempts to highlight Chakotay as an Native American with an ethnic pronunciation of his name.

'''Chuck''': Did she just call him "Chocolate Day"? }}

* [[Large Ham]]: Points out the bizarreness of how Worf utters "Laaaasers!" in "The Outrageous Okona".

* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: In Unexpected, Chuck barely comes out of his rant about the episode's insensitive treatment of what amounts to rape when T'Pol makes a joke about how it's really Tucker's fault.

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Jokingly used in-universe. Sybok seems to be echoing [[Author Avatar|Director William Shatner's]] panicked thoughts during his [[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|movie premiere]].

** [[Patrick Stewart]] gets his first looks at the ''Star Trek XI'' Script: "[[Big No|No!]] WRONG! It Is [[Big Word Shout|WROOOONG!!]]"

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

* [[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]]</ref>:

** Contrast his vitriolic loathing for Neelix, Pulaski, Okona, or pretty much anyone from ''Enterprise''.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: His interpretation that Janeway clearly is one.

* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: He gets annoyed when this gets averted.

* [[The Main Characters Do Everything]]: He points this trope out often, especially given that Star Trek uses it so frequently, with Enterprise taking it to the extreme of having no B cast for the first two years, and only three recurring characters.

** From "The Descent" (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'') review:

** In the review about the episode "The Naked Now" he points out a scene where the Chief Engineer and her assistant are both called away from Engineering. The assistant refuses to leave his post, as he's reluctant to leave Engineering without any supervisor. But then Wesley Crusher convinces the assistant to just leave him in charge... Instead of ''[[Ghost Extras|one of the dozen qualified Engineering personnel seen milling about in the background]]''.

** From the review of "Our Man Bashir" (''[[Deep Space Nine|DS9]]''):

** From the review of "Resistance" (''[[Voyager|VOY]]''):

'''Chuck:''' Because this is a television show, Augris will be the face of these people in all situations: whether communicating to off-world aliens, performing interrogations, or searching the streets for criminals. What a micro-manager. }}

** From "Warlord" ([[Voyager|VOY]]):

** From "Strange New World" (''[[Enterprise|ENT]]''):

'''Chuck:''' The transporter is new technology, just approved for use on human-beings in the last two months, and is designed to break them down and put them back together again. This is all done by highly-trained experts, who know how to handle this thing precisely, to avoid any problems... and who are all apparently on a coffee break, because we see Reed down there instead. After all, he's already the tactical officer, security officer, deliverer of weather reports, and the guy who rides shotgun whenever Archer takes the shuttlepod out, so why shouldn't he operate the transporter too? I mean, how hard can it be? [Cue horrific transporter accident] }}

** Archer seems to have demoted Hoshi to be the Enterprise's delivery girl for the jobs that the others can't be arsed to do. Moments after launching a Subspace Communications Amplifier, which needed to be checked was working properly so that Enterprise could maintain their link to Earth, he asked Hoshi to find out Reed's favourite food for his birthday, choosing her over any other random crewman, and told her to make it her top priority. It's not as though Hoshi is the damned ''Communications Officer!''

** Likewise, in "Regeneration", Hoshi has been demoted once again, and is now in charge of delivering food to Dr Phlox, who declines as it'd speed up the Borg nanoprobes in his system and thus the assimilation process. Phlox then asks for her to look after his menegarie of critters, effectively demoting her to the ships zookeeper.

* [[Malcolm Xerox]]: "And when [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|the black pony]] tries to get ahead, there's the white pony keepin' her down!"

** Likewise, he thinks Majel Barrett was a wonderful actress. He just ''really'' hates Lwaxana Troi.

* [[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'').

** Picard's denunciation of Starfleet for relocating a couple hundred colonists ("How many people does it take before it becomes wrong? A THOUSAND? A MILLION???") kinda falls flat when you realize how many billions he's indirectly killed by denying them revolutionary medicine. Chuck concludes that Picard might want to [[Ironic Echo|ask that same question]] of ''himself''.

** Still fuming over "Dear Doctor", in which Archer asserts that curing an alien epidemic is akin to [[Hollywood Evolution|meddling with their evolutionary path]] ("We didn't come out here to play God!"). Flash-forward to "A Night In Sickbay", in which Archer demands that Phlox invent a new medical procedure to...save his beagle.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: [[In-Universe]]. "Yeah, I love the Sisko is a [[Badass]] jokes."

** Not to mention...

** When talking about Picard's love of horseback riding, and how it showcases his "[[Officer and a Gentleman]]" style compared to Sisko's more "Line Officer" style:

** Sisko fighting Jem'Hadars:

** 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]].

** And, above all, Captain James Tiberius Kirk himself. When reviewing "Trials and Tribble-ations", he notes that Sisko thinks so highly of him, and since Sisko is a man's man, that makes Kirk a man's man's man. It's also obvious that Chuck thinks very highly of him too - whenever he's given the chance, he'll gush about all of Kirk's accomplishments, canonical and memetic alike.

** Inverted with Picard, when it comes to fights ("Not in the face!"), but played straight when it comes to his speeches (even the sanctimonious ones).

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The crew of Deep Space Nine powerwalk into Vic's club to pull off an Oceans 11 heist, it's awesome... then he has Quark snarkingly comment:

** [[In-Universe|In his review]] of ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek (2009)]]'', he goes into a full-blown monologue for Nero when [[Motive Rant|explaining his motives]] as shown in the ''Countdown'' comic, and after that, casually says that in the film, Nero is just an emo with a trident.

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

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Save for the [[Straw Man Has a Point]] trope, this particular provides Chuck the majority of his [[Snark Bait]]. It's not all fun and games, however, sometimes he offers some genuine heartfelt criticism of the moral lapses in judgments of characters. See the 'case for genocide against Archer and Phlox' rant on his website for more details.

** He hates all "The Prime Directive says we should leave these people to die," episodes with a passion. The reason he hates Dear Doctor the most is because the characters never try to find a way around, despite it not even ''existing'' yet.

* [[MST3K Mantra]]: Chuck completely deconstructs this trope a new one in-universe in the preface towards his "Threshold" ''Voyager'' review. While he doesn't outright discredit the mantra (using the "nuke the fridge" scene from ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' as an example of when you shouldn't let one moment of stupidity ruin an otherwise enjoyable piece), he points to the "it's just fiction, so there's no point in giving a damn about whether any of it makes sense" attitude of both the ''Star Trek'' producers and a certain segment of fans as a major reason as to why the franchise's popularity plummeted during the ''Voyager'' and ''Enterprise'' era.

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

Chuck: "And Wesley, wherever you are." }}

* [[Narm]]: Too many specific (in-universe) examples to list, but he makes a blanket statement in his review of "Phage". "That's pretty much ''Voyager'' in a nutshell: drama provokes laughter."

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Hilariously [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] during the "Vox Sola" review.

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

** As for "Evolution of the Daleks", ''that's'' ridicudumb.

* [[Nepotism]]: Jokes that the only reason Picard tolerates Wesley is because he wants to get into Beverley's pants.

* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: A few jokes about that.

** In his special video about the Prime Directive, he reflects that discussing the Prime Directive would still be nerdy even if he did it [[Testosterone Poisoning|while having sex with a girl on top of the corpse of a T-rex he'd just killed with his bare hands]].

** In his review of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', nearly everything [[Meaningful Name|Shiva]] Shepard does, intentional or otherwise, usually ends up leading to a massive body count following [[Walking Disaster Area|in her wake]].

* [[Noodle Implements]]: In "The Game".

** In "The Outcast," he keeps coming up with ridiculous items a gendered person would need to have sex with a non-gendered person.

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

** The Telosian goes to great lengths to tailor his [[Gilded Cage]] to Captain Pike; like the thing with the naughty milkmaid and the three kittens and the strapping farmhand -- "Yeah, I GET it!"

* [[Noodle Incident]]: In "Darmok Follow-up".

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Said almost word-for-word on the handrail's lack of safety in ''Enterprise'''s "Unexpected".

** The fact that ''Voyager'' has a "manual override" that needs power in order to work.

* [[Not Helping Your Case]]: Harry's nightmares make ''[[Priscilla Queen of the Desert]]'' look like ''[[Fight Club]].'' (VOY: "The Thaw")

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

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

'''Janeway''': After it's sucked them out of you and left you mentally soulless, yes. }}

* [[No True Scotsman]] / [[True Art]]: One of Chuck's [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]] 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.

* [[Obligatory Joke]]: From the ''In The Pale Moonlight'' intro:

'''Chuck''': "OK, everybody got that out of our system now? No need to fall back on any hackneyed internet memes, right? Especially once we realize that every time you masturbate, God does indeed kill a kitten, and I for one welcome our Domo-Kun overlords, and remind my fellow earthlings that All Your Base Are Belong to Us because IT'S A TRAP!!! }}

** From ''Evolution of the Daleks'' upon Dalek Caan's escape via emegency temporal shift.

** Tuvix commenting that he feels like he's being dragged before the Numerian Inquisition.

** The pivotal scene in ''Alien'': "My chest is just ''bursting'' with excitement!"

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: His attempt to replicate [[Red Dwarf|Lister's]] [[Oop North|Scouser]] accent is...well, interesting. Perhaps wisely, with Captain Picard he only imitates his precise way of speaking rather than his accent.

** Although the British accent he sports for Reed and Bashir is actually fairly spot on in terms of their Received Pronunciation.

** His take on Scottish accent is self-depreciatingly lampshaded in his review of "Enter Macbeth"

* [[One of Us]]: Chuck is an avid Troper.

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Subverted in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXHNTuxflws the first part] of his review of the ''Voyager'' episode "Disease". In response to a rhetorical statement he poses on behalf of the audience:

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Malcolm Reed on Enterprise, and Tom Paris on Voyager (see [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]] below).

** The Doctor on Voyager, despite his raging ego frequently comes across this. Particularly his reaction in "Time and Again" to be the last person to know that Kes and Neelix came aboard. And there is now another crew. And Captain Janeway is ''missing''.

** After the infamous dune-buggy sequence in "''Nemesis''", he believes that Picard frequently doctors his official Log entries so that he can continue to make [[Patrick Stewart Speech|long-winded speeches]] about the sanctity of the Prime Directive, whilst secretly having Worf "[[Drives Like Crazy|pick dead bits of alien]] [[Car Fu|out of his grill]]".

* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: Chuck references this trope in his review of ''Insurrection'' regarding the Ba'ku:

* [[Out-of-Character Moment]]: Notes in "The Bonding", how strange it is that given Picard's long history of interest in archaeology (having almost chosen it as a career over Starfleet), he seemingly has no idea about the archaeological mission that his own ship is taking part in until it's half-underway, then acts completely disinterested when Data explains it to him.

** In ''Nemesis'', comments on the stupidity of Picard casually breaking the Prime Directive by driving a dune-buggy around on a Pre-Warp world, having Worf laser-gun down a bunch of the attacking locals, before escaping in a shuttle. All this leads him to [[Alternate Character Interpretation|believe]] that Picard [[Orwellian Editor|doctors his Log entries]].

** Also how we've seen people survive much worst blasts and be fine, whereas Nog got hit once and ''lost a friggin leg!''

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

* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]: From ''Voyager'''s episode, "Warlord": Kes, under [[Demonic Possession]] by an evil alien warlord, uses her psychic powers to attack one other alien. "As we know, immense psychic powers cause nosebleeds in either those using them or those on the receiving end, and since [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|these guys have six nostrils]], it's not a pretty sight."

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Delivers a rather chilling one at the end of his rant in "Real Life" about what it feels like to almost, or actually, loose a child.

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

* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: Being exposed to Pulaski's [[Establishing Character Moment]] in "The Child," (namely, being a needling, condescending harpy who repeatedly throws casual robot slurs at Data) drives Chuck completely up the wall.

** Not satisfied with Data's rather flat death and lame wake in ''Nemesis'', Chuck throws together a montage of Data dreaming and experiencing human things while the narration of Jor-El from ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' plays.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: From his ''The Child'' review, an absolutely ''epic'' one for [[Dr. Jerk|Pulaski]].

** And even the above was topped by the following for Lutan.

** He delivers one to Torres in "Learning Curve," when [[Insane Troll Logic|she somehow comes to the conclusion that because Dolby finds Starfleet training annoying and dehumanising, he must be afraid of failing it.]] The explanation is a little longer than the actual "reason you suck" element, but it makes up for this shortness in sheer contempt.

** Another speech is deployed in the review of the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode, "The Way We Weren't", when Zhaan's hypocritical condemnation of Aeryn gets too much for Chuck:

** A comparatively mild one for Lwaxana Troi, but still catty. (TNG: "Haven") Best of all, it's kicked off by Lwaxana [[Be Careful What You Wish For|insisting that humans should say what they think.]]

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 />

Thanks for asking. }}

* [[Reset Button]]: ''Voyager'' ''lives'' on this trope, so of course Chuck brings it up, and that's even what he calls it. "The creators of ''Voyager'' fear change," as he put it.

** Spoofed again in "The Child."

'''Chuck''' (as Picard): Yes, well, it's your first ''Star Trek'' episode, you'll get used to it. }}

* [[Retcon]]: Whenever characters say something that demonstrates ignorance of the events of ''Enterprise'', he will imagine the character proclaiming "Jonathan Archer is dead to me/us."

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

** Picard's reaction when he sees the wreckage of the Enterprise-D.

** "It seems like Sisko's lost just about everything; I mean, his ship, his station, his ''[[The Triple|hair]]''...oh crap, and his son, too! Sisko, keep an eye on your pants, someone might try to steal those, too."

** "[[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]]."

* [[Rule of Sexy]]: Kim Cattrall's replacement of Kirstie Alley in ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]'':

** Why did Crichton decide to unlock Aeryn Sun's restraints and ask her to come with him in the premiere episode of ''[[Farscape]]'':

* [[Role Association]]: Invoked often, usually for [[Actor Allusion]] jokes.

* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: Another snark-target that he consistently approaches. Neelix gets the worst of it, being continually referred to as a hedgehog, but the Forehead of the Week is often up for mockery. Such as people who have feathers for hair, guys with six extra nostrils going up their forehead (as in "Warlord"), aliens with "coat-hook" tusks sticking out of their chins, and the inexplicable feature of aliens with a bridge of flesh between their nose and their chin, obstructing their own mouth.

* [[Running Gag]]: The Magic Meeting Room (name for ''Voyager'''s conference room, in which the problem of the week is solved by [[Ass Pull]] [[A Wizard Did It|complete and utter fantasy]])

** "Torres, who cannot identify shit without a tricorder." Literally.

*** Corrected in later reviews. She actually failed to identify manure ''even with'' a tricorder.

** At the end of all ''Voyager'' reviews, the final scene of "The Thaw" with the following exchange:

'''Janeway:''' ''I knooooow.'' }}

** His various "prizes" handed out at the end of each review, which include:

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

**** As a companion gag, he gives a plus one bonus to his "Final Score" for any Voyager episode not featuring Neelix in the episode at all.

**** In a bit of a shocker (or a sign of the Apocalypse), he actually gave the episode "The Disease" (where Harry Kim catches an alien STD) a bonus point for featuring a Neelix moment which advanced the plot in a helpful, non-annoying manner. To paraphrase Chuck, "it was as if Harry had used up the supply of shame in this episode."

*** Since none of the other ''Trek'' shows feature a regular character as consistently annoying as Neelix, he resorts to "Annoying Character", for the person who's the most annoying in the episode. Amazingly, Wesley Crusher, the poster child for [[Creator's Pet]], only got this award once so far.

* [[Serious Business]]: He reveals while reviewing "Real Life" that his twin sons were born premature, and overcame incredible odds to both be alive and healthy today. So he is quite upset at the episode's trivialization of that horrible situation, saying that people should go through it to build character (especially since the show forgot about it anyway).

* [[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.

'''Weyoun:''' "Your newfound logological hobby is leading to excessive magniloquence, so I assert you circumvent words of a hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian nature." }}

* [[Jerkass Has a Point|Shithead Has A Point]]: From the intro of "The Cloud" review.

'''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 />

'''Chuck:''' You know, he may be a shithead, but he's got a point. }}

** Similar exchange from ''Fair Trade'':

Huh. Fairly astute there, Neelix. }}

* [[Shout-Out]]: Now with their [[SF Debris/Shout Out|own page]].

** Also, in the the ''Real Life'' review, when he compares the death of the Doctor's dying (holographic) daughter, to his own experience of almost losing his twin boys.

* [[Slices, Dices, and Makes Julienne Fries]]: Spoofed the line in the ''Projections'' review, when "kinoplasmic radiation" is used to [[Justified Trope|justify]] or [[Hand Wave]] almost every plot development.

* [[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.

** There's an added wrinkle that Chuck doesn't actually mention: Rick Berman wanted LeVar to direct, but Paramount went over his head to install Baird as director. In effect, Burton was being mistreated by the man who basically stole his job. [[Laser-Guided Karma|No wonder he's more than happy to lay all the blame for the movie's failure at the guy's feet]].

* [[So Okay It's Average]]: Declared this [[In-Universe]] of ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: A common tactic of his, especially in his otherwise more "serious" videos, to remind everyone not to take him or what he says ''too'' seriously.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: When Eddington asks Sisko for a "rousing" song before they head into battle, Chuck inserts the Piña Colada Song.

** Janeway blowing up the Caretaker array to the accompaniment of ''[[Deliverance]]''-stlye banjo music.

* [[So Was X]]: His retort to a TNG Admiral's assertion that "for 500 years, every ship that has borne the name of the ''Enterprise'' has become a legend! This one is no different."

** 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 [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.

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: A rich, gold-filled in-universe vein of snark for his reviews of Star Trek episodes. SF Debris is able to spot these from a mile away.

** So when Bruce Maddox of the ''Next Generation'' episode "The Measure of a Man" ''wasn't'' this trope, he made sure to point it out.

** Hell, he even gives Neelix his due. "You don't care a great deal about your crew and then introduce them to the specter of death at every opportunity!"

* [[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]].

* [[Take a Third Option]]: Neelix gives us the chestnut of "When the road before you splits into two, take the third path." Chuck responds, "The third path...would be back the way you came."

* [[Take That]]: A writer's room reenactment of Ronald D. Moore. ("Genesis")

** For Vulcans, a repressed memory can cause brain damage until the patient tries to lobotomize himself. "Kind of like what happens when you watch an [[Uwe Boll]] film."

** Fed up with the pomposity of first-season ''TNG'' in "The Neutral Zone," where the show tells us acquiring things is evil, he points out that it ''still'' costs a pretty penny to collect the show on DVD, and that even Gene Rodenberry himself has ripped people off in the past (he cites an incident where Gene wrote unused lyrics for the original ''Star Trek'' theme so he could get part of the credit, and thus part of the royalties). "And yet, what a perfect metaphor for 20th century Communism! Taking the credit for the people who do the actual work, all while spouting party doctrine!"

** Chuck relates the story of why the Xenomorph was designed as a collection of dicks and teeth. "It was this or the ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' guys, really."

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

* [[Take That Me]]: Jokes in his review of "Rose" that Clive's obsession with the Doctor has caused even Clive's own family to think he's an internet lunatic.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: Duly notes that Neelix - who was indignant at being told to wear a safety harness earlier ([[Sarcasm Mode|expert climber]] that he is) - immediately grabs onto Torres' legs when he takes a tumble, nearly killing both of them.

* [[Talks Like a Simile]]

* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]: "Author, Author", which features a Holonovel that Chuck wryly describes as "What happens if you watch my show and then try to write a ''Voyager'' episode".

** In "Death Wish", Janeway lauds Q for his honesty. This calls for a [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]], Fleetwood Mac-style!

* [[Techno Babble]]: The secret is to take two scientific terms and mash them together, even if you don't know what they mean. He then gives some examples, while stating what they actually would be.

** A [[Berserk Button]] of his seems to be pressed when ''Voyager'''s Technobabble isn't even consistent with ''itself'', which unfortunately happens a lot.

** He also goes out on a limb and says that Technobabble goes against basic good television if you lean too heavily on it.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: On ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'':

** Aeryn Sun cranking up the Aurora Chair to eleven, leaving Crais screaming in agony. "Ouch," Chuck winces, "I really can't imagine anything worse."

"'''''AAUUUGH--!!'''' Damn my imagination!" }}

** 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 E4 Daleks in Manhattan|Daleks in Manhattan]]")

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

'''Chuck''': "<small>oh, this is gonna be a long day.</small>" }}

** ''[[Farscape]]'': "Adiemus" by Karl Jenkins.

** ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]] - The Two Towers'': "People Ain't No Good", performed by Nick Cave.

*** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOAiT7jzZzI&feature=channel_video_title trailer] is even better. "[[Aqua|I'm a blonde single girl in a fantasy world...]]"

** ''[[Twin Peaks]]'': "Way Back Home" by [[Bing Crosby]].

** ''[[Alien]]'': [[Ironic Nursery Tune|"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"]]

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: One of his major in-universe peeves against ''Voyager'', as he often points out where it actually has some good, original ideas, but utterly fails to do anything worthwhile with them, such as in "The 37's", "Alliances" and "Waking Moments".

** Chuck repeatedly mentions that Seven of Nine was a great character who was wasted in Voyager, as a Borg would become Human over the course of a season instead of being forced to have Humanity thrust upon her would have given her far more character development.

** Also thinks removing Kes was a waste of the character, particularly as this could have created an interesting love triangle between Tom, B'elanna and Kes. Even more so that in "Year of Hell" where her knowledge of the future from "Before and After" could come into play, would she hesitate in warning B'elanna to step away from the console that was going to kill her?

* [[Title Drop]]: "Why it's...dare I say it...a swarm! Maybe even ''The'' Swarm."

** Meta-Title Drop during the review of the Voyager episode ''Real Life'' when the crew makes a shocking discovery while attempting to visit a space station.

'''Chuck:''' Yes, it's meeee!! You guys are sooooo screeeeewed... }}

* [[To the Bat Noun]]: Chakotay's Sacred [insert noun here].

* [[Toilet Humour]]: Done with the aid of an abrupt cut between two unrelated clips here:

'''Worf:''' Prune juice, extra large! }}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: This is pretty much the modus operandi of the cast on Enterprise. It's rare for an Enterprise review to go without Chuck commenting on at least one Too Dumb to Live moment (Almost always from Archer, with Trip taking most other incidents).

** Another example from the original series: Chuck praises [[DeForest Kelley]] and his ability to deliver the most ridiculous dialogue with utter sincerity in "Spock's Brain".

* [[Training From 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 "[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.

* [[Trash the Set]]: In his review of the "Eleventh Hour", he notes that due to the Tenth Doctor's violent regeneration, Eleven can't use the still-rebuilding TARDIS, but at least he still has his ever-faithful sonic screwdriver, right? Cue it promptly exploding.

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: [[In-Universe|Acknowledges this trope]] when discussing David Lynch and surrealists in general. In his opinion, what separates Lynch from the others is that he doesn't fall into this trope: all of his surreality seems to serve a higher purpose.

* [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: Referenced in a review, regarding [[Unfortunate Implications]].

** When he finally awarded the first ever 10 to a ''Voyager'' episode ("Life Line") the video caption noted to [[Shout-Out|"Alert TV Tropes!"]] in order to update [[8.8|the entry]] that would be affected by that score (and which, in light of said review, became obsolete and was subsequently deleted).

** His review of [[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]] references [[Trope Overdosed|a large number of tropes by name]], and the general approach to the review is in line with the feel of this website, all the way up to, and including... '''''[[Brian Blessed]]!'''''

** Even funnier, the dumb executive is portrayed by an image of Rick Berman. (The guy who fired Ron Jones. Make of that what you will...)

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Suggests that Janeway has slowly brainwashed a sense of this into Tuvok.

'''Janeway''': "I'll punish you later, coffee now!" }}

* [[Unfortunate Names]]: ''The Next Generation'' writer Melinda Snodgrass, incorrectly referred to by Chuck as "Melissa".

* [[Villain Ball]]: Points out in the [[Mirror Universe]] ''Enterprise'' episode that everyone suffers from [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] to the point that most of their problems are a result of it, and marvels at the fact the eventual collapse of their empire comes from reform instability rather than the blatantly self-destructive way it's run.

* [[Villain Decay]]: One of his big complaints about the Borg in "Unimatrix Zero," which shows two much smaller and weaker ships attacking an upgraded Borg Cube.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|By his reckoning]], Captain Kathryn Janeway.

* [[Voodoo Shark]]: [[Trope Namer|Coined the trope]] in his review of the ''Voyager'' episode, "The Cloud".

* [[Walking Disaster Area]]: His version of Commander Shepard, appropriately named Shiva Shepard.

* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Just listen to his "[[Evil Laugh|Mwu ha ha!!]]" when Neelix's lungs are stolen.

** "[[Farscape|Crais is a maniac.]]"

** [[Babylon 5|Londo]] singing the No Beer Polka.

* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: Closes out the ''ST: Nemesis'' review by wishing Wesley had been the archvillain instead. "THAT would've put asses in seats!"

* [[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 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? 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:

'''Chuck :''' So, of course... the director interpreted this to mean that everybody was black. }}

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|What Measure Is A Non Minbari]]: In "Meet John Sheridan" he chews out the Minbari for launching a genocidal war against humanity over a simple cultural misunderstanding, refusing to accept Humanity's unequivocal surrender and then having the gall to be ''[[Asshole Victim|offended]]'' that the sole human victory of the war occured when John Sheridan managed to actually blow up ''one'' of their ships.

* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: Refers to this in the ''Voyager'' episode "Faces", where he points out that the intelligent, believable way the characters were written in that episode makes it possible to accept that the episode's entire premise hinges on the absurd plot point that the Vidiians can somehow split one person into two fully-formed and fully-grown people.

* [[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.

* [[X Days Since...]]: The poor safety record of an ''entire moon'' in ''Star Trek VI'' is mocked.

* [[X Meets Y]]: Okona is ''truly'' outrageous. Contagious. [[Jem|Okona's his name, no one else is the same.]]

* [[You Can't Handle the Parody]]: Inserted into Dukat's rant in "Waltz."

* [[You Might Remember Me From]]: Brad Dourif, who "you might remember from ''Voyager'', where he was a killer. ...Or ''Babylon 5'' where he was a killer. ...Or ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' where [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|he betrayed people and then killed them]]."

* [[You Monster!]]: Notes the sheer horror of Janeway's actions in "Tuvix", where she forcibly executes Tuvix, who literally goes from person to person begging to be allowed to live. Besides the Doctor, everyone simply stands there and ''does nothing''.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Calls Past!Carey out for hitting on Seven in "Relativity" despite the fact that we later learn he's got a wife and two kids.

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"I knooooooooooow."'' }}