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** This is particularly noticeable in his ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|First Contact]]'' review, which is almost entirely pointing out plot holes and snarking, yet ends with a score of 8/10.

** And also in the ''Voyager'' 30th Trek anniversary episode "Flashback". He repeatedly points out, while tearing bits of it to shreds that it's ''not'' actually a bad episode, it's actually a really ''good'' episode of ''Voyager'', compared to the others and it ''does'' do its job to entertain the ''Voyager'' fans. But he makes a point that even Brannon Braga, the writer of said episode, agreed that it was a poor contest when compared to ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'''s 30th Trek anniversary episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".

** All of the scores are relative to the series, so things like displaying badly dated values don't affect the score.

* [[Acronym Confusion]]: POTC: ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' or ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''?

** Archer (or "[[Fan Nickname|Duchess]]") is a [[Crazy Homeless Person]] living in a box who Starfleet abducted and put in charge of a starship.

** Earth is a Marxist dystopia overrun with emotionally-stunted pod people. (DS9: "In the Cards", TNG: "The Bonding")

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

{{quote|'''Reed''': Look at this, I asked for plasma coils and they've sent a case of valve sealant.

** The Borg collective themselves are often portrayed less like being a hive mind and more like being an insanely large collection of bored and apathetic office workers.

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

{{quote|"Just as soon as Worf finishes picking [[Car Fu|bits of alien out of my grill]]."}}

** 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.

'''Sisko''': We can't--

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

{{quote|"Equestria is afraid of me, I've seen its true face. The mare in the moon is coming and when the night foams around their waist, all the horses and politicians will look up and shout, "Save us!" And I'll look down and whisper, '''[[Obligatory Joke|Neigh]]'''."}}

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

* [[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.

** He goes one further to say that the sequence could have been better if the Woodstock incident was replaced with someone finding the same glitch at the Lincoln Memorial right before Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream!" speech.

* [[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...

{{quote|''How sad is it that the master villain's name is derived from sarcasm!''}}

* [[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''.

** 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.

** He admits to really hating the character of Lwaxana Troi, who in his opinion is nothing more than an insufferable, egotistical bully, who treats everyone around her like garbage, thinks the [[It's All About Me|entire universe centres around her]] and who ''never'' knows when to shut the hell up.

* [[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]].

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' Klingon vengeance is best served convoluted.}}

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Often makes fun of this when it gets really out of hand. Of note is "Elogium", in which he spends a lot of time pointing out how ridiculous, contrived, and utterly contradictory to basic survival Ocampan reproduction is, and that by all rights, the entire species should have gone extinct a long time ago.

** The biggest is that, at maximum possible birthrate, their numbers would halve every generation. Combined with the fact that they give birth standing up (to a child gestated on their ''back''), achieve sexual maturity in less then a year, and look youthful until the last few months of their death, Chuck thinks it's more likely that the Ocampa were created as sex slaves or toys (which he mentions in ''Before & After'').

** The aliens from "Macrocosm" who have a ridge running from the forehead, down their nose that then seperated from their face over their mouth before reconnecting back to their chin; meaning that evolution gave them something that actually ''hinders'' the simple act of eating. As Chuck points out, the only way this species exists is "to prove God likes fucking with Atheists."

* [[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.

{{quote|"...And naturally there'd be no shortage of volunteers [From red-shirted black men for bridge positions]. People who've seen Science Fiction know the black dude dies first. And people who've seen the original series know the guy who beams down in a red shirt dies. So, black dude pluse red shirt equals get a bridge job as fast as you can and hope an alien doesn't show up on the view screen [[Tempting Fate|looking to kill people for no reason]]."}}

{{quote|'''Negilum''': "Now would be a good time to learn about death by killing one of you."

'''Riker''': "Oh, no!"

* [[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.''

{{quote|"You ''can'' seize the moment and make whatever dreams you have come true, whether it is flying a fighter starship or crowning yourself the head of an empire! ...So long as you [[Femme Fatale|sleep with the right man]], first."}}

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

{{quote|''At this point the turbolift opens, revealing [[Cowboy Cop|a cop-on-the-edge who doesn't play by the rules]], [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|a greedy corporate big-wig looking to get rich]] by poisoning the water supply, and [[Uncle Tomfoolery|a skinny black guy]] whose job it is [[Jive Turkey|to say "Dayymn!" and refer to "My black ass!"]]''}}

** 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!"

* [[Clown Car Base]]: Compares the Maquis vessel in the VOY premiere to one of these. As we'll soon discover, they've got room for fifty additional people back there, ''plus'' Chakotay's medicine wheel.

* [[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.

* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: ''ST: Insurrection'' does have one distinct advantage over the other TNG films. "It's the '''shortest'''."

** "Human Error", an improvement over "Unimatrix Zero." ("But then, so's a test pattern.")

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

{{quote|'''Narrator''': In the rest cubicle, Ben was fast asleep, while Jamie was tossing restlessly.

* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: A few reviews, like the "QPid" episode. There, he mispronounces [[Great Gazoo|Mxyzptlk's]] name, but then says "Okay, before anyone gets ready to correct my pronunciation, I'd like to point out, this is a [[YouTube]] review of a ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode, based on ''[[Robin Hood]]'', that is now referring to a ''[[Superman]]'' villain. Let's just leave Mr. Mxyzptlk's name alone, before [[Awesomeness Is Volatile|we hit nerd critical mass and blow up the internet]], okay? Sometimes you gotta ratchet down the dork for the sake of the straights."

** "Wes, I gave a fifteen minute lecture on the nuances of the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|Prime Directive]], and even ''I'' think you're a spaz..."

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

{{quote|''Uhh, "The Chute" is about a chute, "Flashback" is about a flashback, "Sacred Ground" is about some sacred ground and "Warlord" is about a warlord.''}}

*** Taken to even more extreme heights now that he is redoing the old reviews. Whole sections of former jokes have been completely rewritten to accommodate an ''Evil Janeway'' or (even more pronounced) a ''Picard Can't Fight'' line.

* [[Follow Up Failure]]: "Unimatrix Zero" is accused of being a pretty major example of this next to the show's first two Borg two-parters, "Scorpion" and "Dark Frontier." Those two stories are both given the top score of 10, while "Unimatrix Zero" ends up with just 1.

* [[For Want of a Nail]]: In his review of the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "A Bug's Life", Chuck notes that the future of the show and the ''Farsape'' universe in general was determined by Chiana getting curious about the cargo that the Peacekeeper commandoes had brought aboard: it resulted in Aeryn getting near-fatally stabbed, Crichton having to infiltrate the Gammak base for medical supplies, and getting caught by Scorpius. In Chuck's own summary of the video, "the future of the galaxy is decided by a girl looking for something she can sell at a pawn shop."

* [[Four Point Scale]]: Utterly averted. Rather than using an arbitrary rating system, he gives every episode a grade from 1-10 relative to all other episodes in the same series, and not in any other. He'll give a "10" to the best the series had to offer; due to the bell-curve rating system, there are only a few per series (when giving a "9", he'll often lament that, while it was very good, it just wasn't the best of the best). [[Broke the Rating Scale|He gives out one "0" per series]], always to the episode that is most damaging to the reputation of the franchise as a whole, not just the particular series, and deserves the [[Canon Discontinuity]] treatment. (This actually ''did'' happen to "Threshold"). He does have opinions about the relative quality of each series to all the others, and they become obvious if you watch enough reviews: An ''Enterprise'' "5", for example, is clearly an inferior episode to a ''Deep Space Nine'' "5", as the Enterprise "5" is generic schlock, while the Deep Space Nine "5" may be a simple but enjoyable episode.

** In the [[Show Within a Show]] of "Author, Author," the Doctor has made his own holo-novel with silly characterizations loosely based off the crew, and most of them are dead-accurate to Chuck's [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] invoked for everyone, including Janeway as a ruthless, gun-polishing tyrant named Jenkins. Chuck says it's as if somebody tried to write a ''Voyager'' episode based only off his reviews.

** 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...]]

** 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")

** 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.

{{quote|"Some of Jon Pertwee's best stories were action-adventure technical thrillers. Tom Baker's best stories were often gothic horrors. Doctor Who is large enough to have room for ''all'' of these. --except for the pig men, '''YOU GO TO HELL!!'''}}

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

{{quote|"Yeah? Well, my fist is an instrument of '''shut the hell up.''' And if you wanna find out, just ''keep talking''. It's [[Ironic Echo|ever ready for a knockdown blow]].}}

{{quote|'''Chuck''': Hey Riker, "if there is a cosmic plan, is it not the height of hubris to think that you should interfere"? Funny that you'll calmly argue about letting a whole world die, but you'll unleash all hell when it comes to your cock. }}

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

** [[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."

* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Said word for word after his exposition song at the beginning of the ''Star Trek: Generations'' review.

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' Self-indulgent? Yeah... but cut me some slack, man, I will never get a chance to do this again!}}

** 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>:

* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: A variant; "Lousy Character, Good Actor." Chuck has repeatedly pointed out he appreciates almost everyone in ''Voyager'' as actors, even Ethan Philips, who plays Neelix. He just hates the character that Philips has to play. Similar to how most people differentiate between the in-universe Creators Pet Wesley and [[Wil Wheaton]].

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

{{quote|"We believe that if you deny a man to beat his wife, [[Ironic Echo|you take something away from the man!]]"}}

** 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''.

** Sisko fighting Jem'Hadars:

{{quote|"(A Jem'Hadar) manages to disarm Sisko, unaware that this puts him in reach of the mighty Sisko fist. Given the chance to punch someone, Sisko takes it. Then shoots a few more Jem'Hadar, before just beating some with his gun. Sadly, even Sisko can take on only 15 or so genetically engineered Supersoldiers, before even he gets overwhelmed."}}

** 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.

{{quote|"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be on the bridge coming up with new ways of being awesome our scientists haven't even thought of yet."}}

{{quote|'''Quark''': So how's that whole Dominion War thing going huh? They still control Troi's homeworld? See you're all on top of that...}}

** [[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.

{{quote|"Come gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all the unkindness, but alas, haters gonna hate."}}

* [[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.

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

{{quote|"Everybody knows that tentacles and Japanese girls are natural enemies."}}

** 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.

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

{{quote|"Yeah yeah, I know. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a log is just a log, and sometimes a clarinet is just [[All Psychology Is Freudian|a long shaft of wood you wanna grab with both hands, wrap your lips around, and blow for all you're worth!]]"}}

{{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 in the Face]]: SFDebris!Picard's standard cry whenever he takes a beating.

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

* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: Gives this treatment to Janeway at the end of "Dark Frontier," ignoring Seven's requests to beam her father to safety until it's too late.

* [[Not So Different]]: Points out the Bynars remove a baby's brain at birth and implant cybernetic relays so they have their individuality stripped away. No different than the ''Borg''.

** Also points out how the Borg Queen attempting to control Seven in ''Dark Frontier'' is contrasted with Janeway giving her an direct order in the same scene, because Seven must decide now who she wants to boss her around for the rest of her life.

** "Latent Image" gives us a segment called "My Way or Janeway", contrasting his Crazy!Janeway with the actions of the real Janeway in that episode. He stops doing this halfway through because he thinks Janeway actually went beyond even the realms of his parody when she ordered all evidence of Ensign Jetal to be ''[[Orwellian Editor|erased from existence]]''.

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

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

** He spares Neelix a Stupid Neelix Moment in "Tattoo", partly because of the Chakotay-focused plot in the episode outdoes Neelix, but also because Neelix's eye was pretty badly hurt.

** Even gives Braga some kudos in ''Dark Frontier'' pointing out that his introduction and handling of Seven's character was actually a very smart move as her character perfectly incorporates some of the best traits of Odo, Spock and Data as well as her own character arc, which is a stark contrast to the usual [[Static Character]] you find on Voyager.

* [[Plot Armor]]: Directly referenced in "Starship Mine," where a minor character is killed by a phaser blast but Geordi, shot by the same gun, will eventually be fine. "That's why character shields are the most important part of Starfleet's arsenal."

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

{{quote|"Don't bother flipping him over that, Dukat. He's not some [[Red Shirt|nameless character]], he's a [[Fake Guest Star|Special Guest Star]]. He could survive a fall of at least five stories and get away with only a limp and a clever quip."}}

* [[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.

{{quote|"So don't tell me it '''Builds. ''Fucking''. Character.'''"}}

* [[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.

* [[Rape as Backstory]]: Wonders why Tasha Yar [[Angst? What Angst?|barely reacts]] to her abduction in "Code of Honor", which is completely at odds with the fact she spent most of her childhood dodging ''rape-gangs''.

'''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."

{{quote|"You may have lost the ship, but at least you still have your dig-- ''(Picard turns, wearing [[Rock Bottom|a goofy faux-Aztec mask]])'' ...ni...ty." }}

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

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' [as Picard] What a day. I get beaten up by Soran, accidentally kill Starfleet's greatest hero... I can't imagine how could this day could possibly get any -- the '''hell'''?! WHAT THE GOD DAMN HELL HAPPENED WITH THE -- {{[[[Angrish]] sputters incoherently}}] ...'''''SHIT!!!'''''}}

** "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."

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

{{quote|"It could be argued that the events to come would've had even more of an emotional impact if it ''had'' been Saavik and not Valeris in the role. However, this can be forgiven because...Valeris is ''hot''."}}

*** "[[Hindu Mythology|Brahma]] of the Week" goes to creators of new life.

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

*** "Unsafe at Any Speed" for stupidly-designed spacecraft.

*** "Cosmic [[Face Plant]]" for episodes in which a once-threatening alien species officially [[Villain Decay|becomes a joke]].

*** "Lazarus of the Week" (for when a crewman, well, pulls a [[Contractual Immortality|Lazarus]])

**** Tom Paris gets a "Jesus of the Week" for actually managing to raise ''himself'' from the dead. Note that that this happened without [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Alien intervention]], [[Applied Phlebotinum|advanced technology]], or [[Time Travel]] being involved. He was dead one minute, then alive the next all by his own doing, hence this exception.

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

**** 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.

{{quote|'''Caption:''' No Neelix. Life is good.}}

*** My God... even Shepard's [[Chronic Pet Killer|pet fish]] [[Up to Eleven|aren't safe]]!

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

*** Jake Sisko and [[Star Trek (film)|Chris Pine's Kirk]] get in on one of these in the review of "The Visitor". Pine's Kirk gets swiftly beaten up by Shatner's Kirk.

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

Huh. Fairly astute there, Neelix. }}

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

** His review of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] discusses the franchise and Lauren Faust's past works.

** Not to mention "Doctor Who: Lost in Time", where the first episode, "Wiped, Junked, But Not Forgotten" went ''very'' deep into detail concerning the lost episodes of ''Doctor Who''.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''SF Debris:''' What versatile radiation: it screws up all the computers, the transporters, ''and'' human brains. It slices, it dices, it cuts through a tin can and still slices through a tomato!}}

** 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]].

* [[Something Completely Different]]: His review of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. The first time he ever reviewed a video game (it was actually [[Let's Play|a full-length annotated playthrough]], followed by his usual detailed analysis).

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

* [[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."

{{quote|"Which lumps the [[Star Trek: Enterprise|NX-01]] into this group, too. Though I suppose you could argue the ''Titanic'' has become a legend."}}

{{quote|"You know, the '''''VILLAIN!'''''"}}

{{quote|"I'm sure Ed Wood thought ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'' was brilliant, too."}}

* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]: He claims that the real reason why the Prophets call Ben Sisko "The Sisko" is his [[Memetic Badass|memetic badassness]].

* [[Spot the Thread]]: In his "Unreality" month where he reviewed episodes where reality and fantasy were warping into one another, he finds a common theme. "You may have thought you could fool us, hallucination, but you make the same mistake all the other hallucinations have made. You made Chakotay too lifelike, a dead giveaway!"

{{quote|"Normally in the Opinionated Guides, we defend the assholes, douchebags, and general antagonists when, objectively speaking, their behavior is understandable given the collection of starry-eyed, clicky, sugar-coated dogmatic zealots that they wind up going up against. But there is no defending [Bruce Maddox]."}}

** 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!"

* [[Stupid Evil]]: This is his main complaint about the [[Mirror Universe]] episodes of ''Enterprise;'' everyone's so busy backstabbing each other that it's a wonder anything gets ''done.''

* [[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."

** VOY: "Ex Post Facto": "Not since ''[[Double Jeopardy]]'' have I seen such a ludicrous concept with the window dressing of a legal thriller."

** 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."

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' In my experience, the first impulse is to start forwarding irrelevant shit to my email.}}

* [[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.

{{quote|"They've clearly gone out of their way with all this stuff to not have that [[The Sixties|sixties-era]] feel to it, instead be a timeless piece of-- [cue Bones, [[Outdated Outfit|with a full beard and wearing a giant medallion over his all-white Jedi robe]]] --'''the''' '''''hell'''''??!}}

** 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]]")

* [[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%.

{{quote|'''Tuvok''': A particularly nice sign of dickishness from a man who has over ''[[Made of Iron|three times the strength]]'' of the people he's leading.}}

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Sfdebris''': Man, when Ten breaks shit, he really ''breaks shit'', doesn't he?}}

* [[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).

** Not to mention legally barred from captaining a starship in the 23rd century. In a story that Gene Roddenberry came up with, so you can't just say it was another writer who didn't understand his vision. This becomes [[Fridge Logic]] when ''Enterpise'' has a woman as the Captain of the second NX-class ship.

* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Usually [[Viewers Are Geniuses|inverted]]. For instance, in the first review of "Threshold" posted to [[YouTube]], Chuck likens the phlebotnium that makes the episode's storyline possible (namely a type of dilithium that allows travel at infinite speed) to being able to buy a type of gasoline that would let you drive a corvette at light speed. In the version posted to blip.tv however, the analogy is replaced with a lengthy discussion of the mathematics that make it impossible to achieve light speed, much less ''infinite'' speed.

* [[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.

** In his review of Star Trek (2009) he points out that Nero was far more fleshed-out and sympathetic in the comic book tie-in to the film. He points out Nero could have been the most compelling Trek villain since Khan, and gives a chilling monologue regarding the villain's motivations, finishing with a lament that instead of an effective villain, Nero's lack of on-screen development put him across as some "emo with a trident."

** In response to a bogus rumor that Edward James Olmos was considered for the part of Janeway, Chuck ruminates that we'd see "a lot more of Neelix being bludgeoned with a flashlight, so that's one serious loss we've suffered." The VOY premiere would have doubled as the Series Finale, with the crew getting home immediately after throwing the Kazons [[Thrown Out the Airlock|Out the Airlock]].

* [[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:

* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]]: "The first half of [[The Nineties]] largely reflected this realization that the world was no longer what we thought it'd be, from the decline of the military industrial complex, to who should be [[Acceptable Targets|the default bad guys]] in fiction."

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' [''Worf baritone''] "It was the 'hitting them' part that I was having trouble with."}}

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

{{quote|"It's hard to imagine anyone would do something like this, without being deliberate gross negligence, like they have a sign up somewhere celebrating 428 days without a workplace apocalypse."}}

* [[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.