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{{quote|''Don't look at me though, [[Catch Phrase|I'm just a viewer with an opinion]].''|SF Debris' Opinionated (Voyager / Enterprise / TNG / Deep Space Nine) Guide}}
[http://sfdebris.com/ SF Debris], once known as Sci-Fi Debris, is a website run by Chuck Sonnenburg, a long-time member of various ''[[
Since 2008, he's taken his reviews onto a video format on [http://www.youtube.com/user/sfdebris YouTube] and [http://sfdebris.blip.tv/ Blip.tv], growing in popularity. His style, a mixture of serious analysis peppered with deadpan humour played over clips from the show, has begun to catch on with other reviewers (including [[Atop the Fourth Wall
Often compared (and paired) with [[Confused Matthew]]. Rather than having his own forum, CM has been kind enough to give him a dedicated sub-forum; particularly useful as the two have a similar fanbase anyway.
On May 12, 2011, ''all'' of his ''Star Trek'' reviews were removed from [http://www.youtube.com/user/sfdebris Youtube], as a pre-emptive measure when [[CBS]] (which has been cracking down severely on other ''Star Trek'' fan channels as well) filed a claim against his "Trials and Tribble-ations" review. As the [[BBC]] has already done the same with his ''[[
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* [[A-Team Firing]]: Remarked that if Riker ever tried to shoot [[JFK|Kennedy]], he'd hit [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]].
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: But only when it actually is negative. He reviews plenty of good episodes too, and is quite fair to the parts that work in the bad ones.
** This is particularly noticeable in his ''[[Star Trek: First Contact
** 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".
** He addresses this tendency when he reviews the [[Star Trek:
** 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]]''?
** He '''''really''''' wanted to see [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Jesus battling a Kraken.]]
* [[Acting for Two]]: Comments on this a few times where Robert Picardo is concerned: he liked "Life Line" for having twice as much Picardo as usual (since Picardo plays both the Doctor and Lewis Zimmerman), and in "Author, Author", he facetiously suggests that maybe the reason that Zimmerman doesn't appear is that they couldn't get the actor on short notice.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: All the time! For example, when Picard meets Romulan Commander Tomalak, he mentions that Picard must be wary of pissing off both the Romulans and the [[Babylon
** Several more to ''Babylon 5'' e.g. "Man Lyta, those Vorlons can't stop messing with you can they?'
** Nine times out of ten, he refers to Michael Jonas as "[[Knights of the Old Republic|Carth Onassi]]".
** After Shran calls Archer 'pinkskin', Chuck says that if he tried calling Sisko 'brownskin', Sisko would [[Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It|hit him so hard that Weyoun would get dizzy]].
** His comment on the characters Tim Russ has played on various Trek shows prior to Russ playing Tuvok in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** When Malcolm McDowell is kicking Picard's ass in ''Generations'' he is singing [[A Clockwork Orange (
*** He also refers to him as "[[Fallout 3|President Eden]]."
** When Archer approaches a round metal door with an "X" on it, Picard barks, "Unless [[X-Men (
** Similarly, in "Code of Honor" Picard admires a transporter pad. "Mm, I like that symbol. Must remember that when I start my School For Gifted Mutants."
** His reasoning for the Bird of Prey from ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' being time travel capable? The previous owner was [[Back to
** Mentions he wishes Pulaski would [[LA Law|fall down an elevator shaft]] again.
** John Sheridan fights for the [[Tron|Users]].
** Janeway was Aeryn Sun's mother in ''[[Dragon Age]]''. Not that you'd notice.
{{quote| '''Aeryn Sun''': "Compassion"? [[In the Blood|What is compassion?]]}}
** In the ''[[Star Trek IV:
** 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
** In the recap of Fellowship of the Ring at the start of his The Two Towers review he comments on Boromir's death with 'Ha! Dodge that, [[Sharpe]]!'.
** And if there's one thing Commander Gaff hates, it's [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|skinjobs]]!
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** Stoned [[Seth Green]]: "For a minute I thought [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|I'd turned into a werewolf!]]"
** Bashir and O'Brien find Hannibal Barca to be very familiar looking.
** In the 2009 movie review he has Kirk claim there was a lightning storm in space during his conception as well as his birth, but that's to be expected, as his father was [[Thor (
** A LOT of Data references crop up for Brent Spiner in his [[Threshold]] review.
** [[The Man From Earth|John's]] shrink is still a bit testy over being [[Office Space|canned from Initech]].
** During the ''[[Flash Gordon (
** McCoy might not know who the hell [[Clark Gable]] is, but he knows a little something about quality cinema.
{{quote| "''[[
** The USS Bozeman is captained by [[Frasier|Frasier Crane]].
** "Jake Sisko got married, started his writing career, starred in ''[[
** Captain Braxon ended up stranded in the 21st century thanks to Janeway's recklessness. "I could only survive by acting as the comic relief pilot on ''[[
** Where do you expect [[Alien|Ash]] to go on this spaceship? It's not like he [[The Lord of the Rings (
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: This bit from his "Where No Man Has Gone Before" review:
{{quote| "Soon, Doctor Piper pops a peck of pasty pills, and Kirk is awakened. He prevents Piper's plan to prescribe his pal a pill, postponing the prescription to pursue the potent people to prevent their perverse plan to propagate such portentious progeny, then pass the pasty pill that Piper picks."}}
** And this selection from ''By Inferno's Light'', when Dukat is trying to convince Sisko to convince the Federation to join the Dominion:
{{quote| "Considering the strategic significance should Sisko's station surrender, Sisko suggests shitting off. Sure, Sisko's station suffering some surprise sortie certainly signifies Starfleet's strategic softness, but surrender signifies Starfleet's slump, stagnation: a slippery slope signaling systems should ship out should some sovereign suggest cessesion. Such steps Sisko surely shan't sanction. I'm sorry. I can't read anymore. I seem to have spit all over the script."}}
* [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]]: The Prime Directive has been torn apart piece by piece for what it turned into as ''[[
** 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.
* [[All for Nothing]]: At the end of his "Macrocosm" review, he made a point to explain that he would be taking a break for [[Serious Business|various reasons]]. Many fans didn't watch till the end of video and flooded the comments section asking where he was.
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: He's really not a fan: "You don't get credit for stuff you don't put in the movie because, now try to follow this because it's a pretty big leap, you didn't put it in the movie. I shouldn't have to wait months and watch all your deleted scenes to say 'Oh, this finally makes sense!' or pore through some non-canon books to say 'Oh, so this isn't a pile of nonsensical horseshit after all!'"
** When it turned out he was a teacher, this makes even more sense; teachers can't in good faith give students credit for things not actually in their report.
** Also shows up when he discusses the infamous reams of supplemental material for the film ''[[Sunshine (
** He has referenced the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
** In his review of ''Star Trek 2009," though, he references all the backstory materials for Captain Nero and laments that if any of that had made it into the movie proper, Nero would have gone from "random bald emo Romulan" to "possibly the strongest villain the franchise has ever seen since Khan."
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Many characters, especially Janeway and Archer, have all their actions [[In-Universe|viewed through the lens]] of the kind of characters they would be if the writers knew what they were doing. In the case of those two, it's genocidal tyrant and complete lunatic respectively. His interpretation of Janeway, in particular, has become so popular he's taken to [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading it]] in more recent videos.
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** 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]].
** Neelix claimed to be a survival expert, even though, as Chuck points out, his actions have led to the deaths of other crew members as well as getting his own lungs ripped out. So in later scenes, he justifies Neelix's presence on away teams as "Neelix has conned the rest of them into thinking he's a survival expert."
** [[In
** 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")
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'''Sisko''': We can't--<br />
'''Janeway''': That's two votes for "Mind Bomb," we win! }}
** Twilight Sparkle as an [[Expy]] of [[Watchmen (
{{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.
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** Bones' remedies for problems seems to revolve around giving his patients a perscription of heavy drugs, booze, or taking them to strip clubs. He is either insane, a drug addict or the ''best'' damn Doctor in Starfleet!
** 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
{{quote| "I have waited a quarter of a century for that joke to come naturally, and it was ''so'' worth it."}}
* [[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?!
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* [[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!''}}
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Multi-part video reviews are usually reserved for the films and for the series' worst episodes, like "[[Star Trek: Enterprise
** Certain characters voted "most annoying" also get filibusters against them, such as [[Star Trek:
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Calls the Defiant "Benjamin Sisko's Motherfucking Pimp Hand".
** 'THRUST BARCODE AND HIS LEAGUE OF G-MEN!'
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** 'EXTRA-MAN with his super-duper EXTRA powers!'
** From his Wrath of Khan review: "Khan Noonien Pecs"
* [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]: Assumes this about ''[[Star Trek II:
{{quote| "Ceti Alpha VI just blew up one day. I really have no idea how that just happened. Best guess, Khan took his shirt off, and his genetically enhanced [[Latin Lover|Latin body]] was just too much for it to take."}}
** When Sisko, Spock and Kirk are on the screen at the same time, his computer shut down for *ahem* ...personal, reasons...
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'''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
{{quote| ''"Oh come on, it's a Jeri Taylor script. You know that even in an episode where Janeway's been going nuts, she's gonna have the strongest will there is, don't be silly."''}}
* [[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!"
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* [[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.
** Yet another great one: In his redone review of "[[Star Trek: Voyager
** Points out that ''Blade Runner'' operates in the realm of, as the French say, mise-en-scène. Likewise, Deckard's rathole apartment speaks of a man who is, as the French say, "no-geev-è-crap."
** The League of Captains and the Mindbomb during the Dominion war arc.
** The "Turnip of Mass Destruction" in the ''Insurrection'' review.
** 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 ''[[
{{quote| As you can imagine, such a being is either going to be a half-mad animal, or [[Magnificent Bastard|the most disciplined and calculating mind in the Uncharted Territories]], on a [[Too Kinky to Torture|first-name basis with pain]], and [[The Unfettered|the will to travel from A to B in a straight line, no matter how many unfortunate people might be standing in that path]]. And guess what, Crichton? You now have his undivided attention. Under the circumstances, bladder release is permissible and, indeed, encouraged.}}
* [[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
** "{{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":
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** 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:
{{quote| ''Neelix walked into a room and handed the Doctor a pad. This offended me.''}}
** John Crichton and the crew of Moya have no luck whatsoever, as Chuck explores in the ''[[
{{quote| "To say our heroes are cursed would be underselling it- at least curses usually have a chance of being ''lifted'' in some way."}}
* [[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.
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** Mayweather constantly reminding everyone, "Hey, did you know I've been in space!"
* [[Caustic Critic]]: Though he is quite happy to point out when the shows he's watching do something right, he still tears bad points of everything, even with episodes he likes.
* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: "Federation President [[Terry Pratchett]]" in ''[[Star Trek IV:
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: At exactly [[Establishing Character Moment|18 minutes and 45 seconds]] into the pilot episode, the French captain says:
{{quote| '''Picard:''' Commander, signal the following in all languages and on all frequencies -- ''"We surrender."''<br />
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{{quote| '''Archer:''' ''(raving)'' Me, too! [[Conspiracy Theorist|He was killed by the Vulcans!]] They crept out from under his bed and choked him to death with a heart attack!<br />
'''Janeway:''' My father died, too, and I [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|totally had an alibi]] and everything. }}
* [[Cowboy Bebop
* [[Credits Gag]]: Playing "99 Luftballoons" (the German language version) over the credits for "Darmok", which is an episode about language.
* [[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
** 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.
{{quote| '''[[SF Debris]]''': Seven's extremely upset that this idiotic human showed such disregard for their lives for a piece of obsolete junk... and obviously she's considering one day humping his brains out.}}
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{{quote| '''[[SF Debris]]''': Both are creative, intelligent, problem solvers, take pleasure in solitude, are interested in self-aware holograms and by alien influence, had experiences, though different, of a larger kind of consciousness integrated with technology, that they eventually had to give up. I think they'd gel quite well.}}
* [[Curse Cut Short]] / [[Country Matters]]: The introduction of Dr. Pulaski. "YOU'RE A COMPLETE CUN--!! <small>..temptible person.</small>"
* [[Cut His Heart Out
** In "Unimatrix Zero", Janeway offers to detach Borg Queen's head to make her ass easier to kiss.
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** "Human Error", an improvement over "Unimatrix Zero." ("But then, so's a test pattern.")
** "Did you know that (TNG: "Haven") was nominated for [[Still the Eighties|Outstanding Hair Styling]]?"
* [[A Date
{{quote| '''Narrator''': In the rest cubicle, Ben was fast asleep, while Jamie was tossing restlessly.<br />
'''Chuck''': Now we know why he wears that kilt. }}
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{{quote| He needs to, oh, find the nearest Chief Engineer and "tap her warp core".<br />
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:
He wants to, y'know, [[Ms. Fanservice|"service the Collective"]].<br />
Incidentally, we see Dukat playing more and more with Sisko's ball. ([[Ahem]])<br />
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{{quote| '''Neelix''': But we have to make sure they '''match the carpet!'''<br />
'''Sfdebris''': A dozen ways to phrase that, and you had to go with ''that'' one. }}
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
** Invoked in ''DS9'' after the characters cite the Eugenics War, and [[Continuity Snarl|gets the date wrong by two centuries]].
{{quote| '''Sisko''': Yes, the Admiral has a speech impediment. He [[Hand Wave|says "two" whenever he means "four."]]<br />
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* [[Driven to Suicide|Driven To Phaser The Warp Core]]: Suggests that given the treatment the Maquis crewmen recieve in "Learning Curve" for not following Starfleet rules, considering they never wanted to be part of Starfleet in the first place, would drive anyone to pull a phaser and shoot the Warp Core in frustration.
** 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 ''[[
{{quote| '''Picard''': Well what exactly are you capable of doing?<br />
'''Troi''': [[Star Trek Generations
'''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! }}
** Not that Picard is any better, considering his love of callously violating the Prime Directive whilst driving a Dune-Buggy.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: [[In-Universe|His reaction]] to the ''[[Enterprise]]'' episode Unexpected, where Tucker became impregnated by an alien who told him that her species reproductive process was ''a game''. He's completely pissed off at the episode and Berman and Braga for [[Black Comedy Rape|playing this up as comedy]] because they seem to think [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Dying Dream]]: Invoked as an alternative to the fan hypothesis that Picard never leaves the Nexus in ''[[
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: His interpretation of the Voyager crew.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: In-universe, Robert Picardo as the Doctor.
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** Reed, practically the [[Only Sane Man]] aboard the NX-01, inventor of the forcefield, supercharging phase-cannons, and possibly the original "Reed-Alert"... (though the name needs work).
** Harrin from Voyager's episode "Good Shepherd", a one-shot Lower Decks character, who is unafraid to tell Janeway what a goddamn idiot she's been half the time, especially that it's taken seven years to notice, "On a ship meant to explore the wonders of the universe, you've put [[Carl Sagan]] in charge of ''shoveling coal''".
** 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
* [[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!"
{{quote| SF Debris: "I hereby award this scene the congressional medal of gay."}}
* [[The Everyman]]: Lister from [[
* [[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.
* [[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 ''[[
** "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..."
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: He's not a feminist, and still gets offended as extremely sexist parts of some episodes.
* [[Exactly What It Says
{{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.''}}
* [[Exact Words]]: The audience's sentiment that "Kirk should die on [[The Bridge]]!" is met with a hearty "[[Dropped a Bridge
* [[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]].
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* ~Fail O'Suckyname~: He reflects on this in "Trials and Tribble-ations", given that Arne Darvin apparently ''chose'' the name "Barry Waddle" to live under for decades.
** 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
{{quote| '''Spock:''' Perhaps your new name could be something like "Butterfingers on the Edge of [[Family Matters|Whoopsie, Did I Do That?]]"<br />
'''Guardian''': I've '''succeeded'''! Just in a way [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|far beyond your comprehension!]]<br />
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** Neelix is often referred to as a "hedgehog," due to his spiny hair. Or simply Shithead.
*** ''[[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Der scheissekopf]].''
** "The Andorian Incident" gave us "Vulcan Bitch" and "Colin the Andorian" (so called because of his resemblance to [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Colin Mochrie]]).
** Dr. Phlox has been dubbed "Dr. Zoidberg" as of the "Vox Sola" review, because of his long string of inaccurate judgement calls ("These assimilated people are harmless!" "Patient confidentiality? What's that?").
** [[Mass Effect|FemShep]] is "[[Useful Notes/Hinduism|Shiva]]", and [[Kill'Em All|with good reason]].
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*** 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.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In his re-release of the Caretaker review, he mentions that rumors are that Janeway was on Earth for other reasons that just recruiting Tom, mentioning a computer virus and tampered replicators. Cut to his ''[[
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: In his review of the ''[[
* [[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 Dis Continuity]] 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.
** Chuck himself admits he was indulging in this trope a bit with his early ''Deep Space Nine'' reviews, pegging "7" instead of "5" as an average (using the 7.5 he originally gave "Our Man Bashir" as a specific example, downgrading it to a "4" when he re-uploaded it). Without a doubt, his more recent DS9 reviews, such as "Indiscretion" and "Return to Grace", strongly avert this trope; he praises them profusely and offers no substantial criticism, but still only gives them a "5" and a "6" respectively because, as noted above, the bar for DS9 is set so high.
** For his non-''[[
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: On ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' during the infamous "A Night In Sickbay," Chuck temporarily loses it and says "And yet it's still coming! It won't stop! How do you kill a Star Trek show that's already dead?!"
* [[Freudian Slippery Slope]]: "[[Catherine Tate|Catherine Tit--]] ''Tate!''" "Donna Nipple-- ''Noble''!" "Substantial shift in [[Overly Long Gag|boobies!]]--''dynamic.''"
* [[Fun
** 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:
{{quote| '''Janeway''': [[Star Trek:
** See also [[Translation Train Wreck]] below.
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: Notes that Tucker was often written this way and how it's at odds with the fact that a man who is supposedly a talented engineer in charge of maintaining a Warp Reactor, seemingly can't figure out simple high-school level algebraic equations, the sort of things that he'd ''had'' to have studied in order to know how it actually ''works''.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Accuses Dukat of this when chiding him for [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|celebrating his victory prematurely]] in "Sacrifice of Angels", pointing out that the [[Genre Savvy]] Weyoun is much more worried about their so-called "inevitable" triumph.
* [[The Ghost]]: "Lieutenant Nobody" in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact
** Larry the Invisible Interior Decorator from ''Sarek''.
** Repeated with Janeway eying her past self. "Damn, I have a fine ass. I wonder if the universe would explode if I..."
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* [[Granola Girl]]: His idea of what Mirror Janeway is like.
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: This is one of his favorite metaphors for how to describe bad technobabble. "You know it sounds like crap, and the more you know about it, the worse it is!"
* [[Gushing About Characters You Like]]: Has a tendency to do this with '''[[Spell My Name
** In earlier reviews, he had a minor tendency to do this with The Doctor, though it was usually because he was the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] of the Voyager crew.
** Seems to be heading in this direction with Scorpius. 'Imagine Spock if were a villain; sprinkle with some charisma and cunning, add a dash of [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Admiral Thrawn]].'
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{{quote| "Oh my god, that's... I didn't know Yeoman Chambers could that! ..And I ''really'' didn't know [[Robosexual|Legion could do THAT]]. Well, [[Brick Joke|no wonder he's dancing all the time]]."}}
* [[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.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: During the review for "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy," a [[Fan Disservice]] scene involving The Doctor imagining that he's playing grab-ass with Janeway causes Chuck to shut down like HAL from ''<nowiki>~2001: A Space Odyssey~</nowiki>''. He has to reboot in the same manner as ''[[
* [[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:
** 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
* [[Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It]]: See Jeffrey Combs, under "Actor Allusion."
** 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]]."
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** "[[Private Eye Monologue|Into my office walked a dame with million-latinum legs and a swing to her hips that could unphase a tacheon beam. She had trouble stuck to her like stink on Klingon, but the way she set my phaser to stun, I knew I'd be taking the case...]]" (VOY: "Ex Post Facto")
* [[Hope Spot]]: Occasionally happens with Neelix. A great example is "Author, Author", in which Neelix actually manages to get through to the Doctor on the issues his holonovel is causing in a subtle, non-annoying way... and then he brings up another one of his [[Ice Cream Koan|"Talaxian Sayings"]].
* [[Hypocrisy Nod]]: Overdubbing "Cotton Eye Joe" during Picard's [[Star Trek Nemesis
** 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.
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* [[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 Call It Vera]]: Chuck let slip he refers to his laptop as "Ruby".
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in
* [[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.
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** 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."
{{quote| "Where the hell did THAT come from? The casting sheet? How would ''you'' know, Riker? Did you read Wes' biography on Wikipedia? Cause [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|I got two words for ya]], pal: '''CITATION NEEDED'''.}}
** 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 ''[[
{{quote| '''Kirk:''' It seems impossible. A Star Captain's most solemn oath, is that he will he give his life, even his entire crew... rather than violate the Prime Directive.}}
** ''Star Trek: Insurrection: ''"This village is a sanctuary of life."
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{{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)
{{quote| "Who am '''I'''? I am [[Royal We|His Grace]], Sir SFDebris, [[Try to Fit That
** "The Bonding" (TNG) comes off as hilarious when paired beside "The Menagerie" (TOS)
{{quote| '''Picard: Do you honestly believe he would be happy in this...''total fiction''?<br />
'''Captain Pike: ''([[Once For Yes, Twice For No|beeps "YES]]")<br />
'''Picard:''' Quiet! No one asked you! }}
* [[Is There a Doctor In
{{quote| "Quick, someone get them to the Doc--! ...oh, wait, I forgot. Our Doctor's running around the mountain [[Ironic Echo|to firm up her tits]]."}}
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
** 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.
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== Tropes J-L ==
* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: Unsurprisingly, he tends to agree with [[Fanon]] on the reason for Janeway's promotion to Vice-Admiral, name-checking this trope almost as soon as she's onscreen in ''[[
* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: Chuck feels this, especially since [[Plot Armor]] kicks in whenever it feels like on energy-based weapons. He mentions the TR-116 from the episode "Field of Fire," and says it was abandoned "because it actually worked."
* [[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.
{{quote| Chuck: "You're a complete cun . . . temptable person."}}
* [[Leaning
{{quote| "This is ''my'' doing! My arrogance! My vanity!!"}}
** [[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
* [[Les Yay Shipping]]: In his review of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Gridlock" he mentions that, as far as he's concerned, Nyssa and Tegan are the first homosexual couple in ''DW'' history. He considers them having sex for the first time (in [[Fanfic]]) equally as groundbreaking and important as the Face of Boe's final words to the Doctor.
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Said word for word after his exposition song at the beginning of the ''Star Trek: Generations'' review.
* [[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 ''[[
{{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>:
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* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]: "But I'm no X/not an X, I'm just a viewer with an opinion."
* [[Mad Scientist]]: His interpretation that Janeway clearly is one.
* [[Magic
{{quote| "All I ask is that you be ''consistent'' with your bullshit."}}
* [[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:
{{quote| '''Chuck:''' ... Eventually sending just about everyone to go searching. So that leaves [[The McCoy|Beverly]] in command of the Enterprise with the Z-List crew members.}}
** 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]]''.
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{{quote| '''Chuck''': Is there a medication for what you're on, Archer?}}
** 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
* [[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.
* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]: One particular "burr up [Chuck's] ass" is the nebulous anti-technology philosophy of [[Can't Argue
{{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''.
** 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.
{{quote| '''Chuck:''' You have no idea what the consequences will be for this new procedure, do you? '''You didn't come out here to play God'''. Maybe you should just let nature take its course...'''[[With Due Respect|CAPTAIN.]]'''}}
* [[Memetic Badass]]: [[In
{{quote| "Bitch, you think that's it? The list of ways I'm awesome is so long, the only surface large enough to write 'em on is my dick!"}}
** Not to mention...
{{quote| "Shran's just lucky Sisko's not here. If he tried calling him ''Brownskin'' he'd bitch slap him so hard he'd make Weyoun'd feel dizzy"}}
** When talking about Picard's love of horseback riding, and how it showcases his "[[Officer and
{{quote| ''...while Sisko is probably content to ride on a Tyranosaurus."}}
** Sisko fighting Jem'Hadars:
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* [[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:
{{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
* [[Mondegreen]]: [[Gargoyles|Goliath]] getting bounced out of a banquet by his human masters. It's as the [[William Shakespeare
{{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.
** 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
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: This little nugget from ''[[
{{quote| Data: "Ladies and gentlemen, and invited transgendered species..."<br />
Chuck: "And Wesley, wherever you are." }}
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* [[Never Live It Down]]: In-universe, Troi crashing the Enterprise-D makes her the butt of ''many'' jokes.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In "Before and After" notes that Doctor ''Van Gogh'', the future iteration of Voyager's Doctor, developed a radical new procedure to extend Kes' life so she could have a few more years with her husband Tom, her daughter Linnis, and her grandson Andrew. In doing so, he accidentally caused her to [[Mental Time Travel]] into the past, undoing the best years of her life, half of the people she loves to be erased from history, and the man she loves into the arms of another woman (Torres).
** Also uses this exact phrase at the end of his ''[[
** An almighty instance of this is pointed out in the review of "Fight or Flight," as a result of Archer getting pissy at T'Pol and insisting on going back to a ship whose occupants have been killed by a highly advanced race who siphon chemicals from their victims. ''Enterprise'' gets disabled by a ship from the race in question, and they have to be saved by another ship from the dead crew's race. It's noted that if not for the other ship showing up in time ''and'' Hoshi managing to work out their language on the fly, in the best case Archer would have gotten his crew killed, and in the worst case his actions would have led to Earth being conquered by hostile aliens, and the human race being reduced to cattle and slaughtered en masse for their chemicals.
** His (rather plausible) theory that the Breen and the Pakleds are the direct result of Doctor Phlox and Archer committing genocide in "Dear Doctor".
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'''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. }}
* [[Not in
* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]: "[[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Time-traveling space Nazis]]. Yes, really."
** In "Death Wish" Q decides to summon important figures from human history. Sir Isaac Newton, Will Riker... and some guy from ''Woodstock''.
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* [[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 the ex-Borg from "Unity" want to forcibly strip away the individuality of the other ex-drones who are attacking their community, in order to create a unified harmony between themselves ones again... which he speculates might be how the Borg started in the first place.
** His Coda for ''Tuvix'' draws hilarious comparisons between Janeway and GLaDOS from ''[[Portal (
** Jokes about "Janeway of Borg" given her penchant for assimilating lowlifes into her motley collective of misfits.
** 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.
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{{quote| "Impossible. [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Nobody expects the Numerian Inqusition!]]"}}
** The pivotal scene in ''Alien'': "My chest is just ''bursting'' with excitement!"
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: His attempt to replicate [[Red Dwarf
** [[Scotireland|And his attempts to do Scotty's accent are more Irish than anything else.]]
** Although the British accent he sports for Reed and Bashir is actually fairly spot on in terms of their Received Pronunciation.
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{{quote| '''Chuck''': Yes, in my world, all Scotsmen [[Talk Like a Pirate|sound like pirates]].}}
* [[One of Us]]: Chuck is an avid Troper.
* [[Only Known
{{quote| "Now I know what some of you probably want to say. Come on SF Debris. Give it a rest, you're reaching. To which I have two things to say: First, you can call me Chuck, we're all friends here. And I'm fully aware that as a personal name, SF Debris sounds like the secret identity of a [[Silver Age]] [[DC Comics]] villain."}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Malcolm Reed on Enterprise, and Tom Paris on Voyager (see [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]] below).
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*** Taken further in "Darmok" where he has Worf berate everyone for constantly dismissing his suggestions to [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|shoot the threat]], in favour of some highly convoluted plan which only makes things ''[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|worse]]'', only for them to hypocritically solve the problem by ordering him to ''shoot'' them.
* [[Operation Blank]]: Chakotay's plan, "Operation Common Sense". ("Scorpion")
** He mocks Janeway naming a plan to break into a Borg ship "Operation Fort Knox," as it [[What Did You Expect When You Named It?|implies they'll fail]]. "What were your other choices, 'Operation Titanic,' or 'Operation ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
** Ben Sisko's counter-offensive is dubbed "Operation [[MC Hammer|Hammertime]]".
** Worf and Riker's "Operation Accomplish Nothing" ("Descent").
* [[Opinion Myopia]]: Really calls this out in his introduction video for the ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
* [[Orwellian Editor]]: Believes Janeway in "Latent Image" ordering all evidence of Ensign Jetal ''erased from existence'' actually makers her ''[[Up to Eleven|crazier]]'' than his parody of her.
** 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]]".
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* [[Parallel Porn Titles]]: ''Deep Throat Nine''.
** ''[[Curious George|Bi-Curious George Meets the Man with the Yellow Hat]].'' (''X-Files'': "Beyond the Sea")
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: His [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Perfect Pacifist People]]: Chuck rips into this trope for the ''Insurrection'' review, both the "rural perfection" version in the film as well as the older "technological perfection" espoused by Roddenberry. He wonders why the hell everything is so ''clean'' if they're so agrarian (technology is to thank for our current concept of "clean", even modern farm work is incredibly dirty); moreso, he wonders how they even managed to kick out the Son'a if they're so "pacifistic" and the Son'a aren't.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: When asked to do a review of a ''good'' ''Voyager'' episode, he gushed over "The Thaw" - though still taking the time to snark at Harry Kim's questionable sexuality, of course.
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* [[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.
* [[Rape
* [[Really Dead Montage]]: Chuck, believing that Kirk deserved better than what happened to him in ''Generations'', gives him a fitting sendoff -- courtesy of [[Journey (
** Following his (latest) death in "Scorpion", we see a montage of Harry Kim's numerous beatings/deaths/humiliations throughout the show as [[Enya]]'s "Only Time" plays. ...''Epic''.
** 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 (
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: From his ''The Child'' review, an absolutely ''epic'' one for [[Dr. Jerk|Pulaski]].
{{quote| "Jesus you're a complete [[Curse Cut Short|cun-]][[Beat|...]]-temptible person. (Heavy Breathing) Janeway was obviously a seven-year-long apology by this franchise for season 2, where the entire female gender is represented by someone who didn't get a uniform and had a haircut created created out of a hatred towards life itself.. And you, Doctor... Pulaski, Doctor Pulaski, Doctor Smug-ass Monkey-face ''Sack-o-'''Shit'''!'' I would try to beat some sense into you, but my parents taught me it was wrong to kick ''livestock!'' Your ''voice'', is like the sound of [[Big Creepy
** And even the above was topped by the following for Lutan.
{{quote| "Lutan, you understand honor like Neelix understands sex appeal. You've heard of it; you probably think you have it, but buddy, there's not a smidgen of it in your body. Your smile is as warm and inviting as an icewater enema, your so-called 'charm' is so forced and transparent, so clearly ''septic'', I wouldn't be surprised if your voice leaves an oil slick. And your attempts to project authority are nothing of the kind, but of a spoiled child, who's been handed everything in life, expecting to constantly get, and annoyed when it's not given. You do not radiate authority; you ooze self-entitled smugness. A toxic barrage, scientifically proven to be the first, second and ''third'' cause of cancer in laboratory rats; which made the scientists cry, because they found the rats more personable than '''you'''. And your attempts to be sly? *disgusted laugh* Stop. It's so sickening it gives flu bugs nausea. So, please [[Harry Potter]], wrap yourself in that magic cloak of yours and disappear already. Don't come back out, until you get the secret sign. If you want to know what it is, it's the sight of the sun, swallowing the world."}}
** 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.
{{quote| Uh... What? How did you get from what he said to ''that?'' If my boss told me that part of my job required putting on clown shoes and banging cymbals together half an hour a week while running around the parking lot, I'd call it ridiculous and probable punishment too. Just because you find something annoying and stupid doesn't mean you're afraid of failing at it! [[Take That|Lord knows that never stopped the writers of this show from showing up every week to crank out something annoying and stupid]]. And ''who the hell is '''Torres''' ''to make that kind of comment? Even ignoring a the fact that she ''punched'' a fellow officer and they gave her a frickin' promotion over it, she... oh, what was it? Oh yeah... ''GOT HER SORRY ASS TOSSED OUT OF THE ACADEMY!'' Look, you [[Rubber Forehead Alien|trilobyte-foreheaded twerp]], you don't go around accusing people of being afraid that they can't succeed while ''marinating in the filth of your own shame.'' Now run along; we want the opinion of someone who doesn't [[Never Live It Down|need a tricorder to identify a turd]].}}
** Another speech is deployed in the review of the ''[[
{{quote| Oh for God's sakes! You know what? I was willing to cut you some degree of slack before, when you were just reacting to the image in front of you, and you had no time to really process it, but now... (laughs) now, you're just an utter ''bitch.'' (Tuts disapprovingly) You know, didn't want to have to do this, didn't want to drag this out and have it seem like I've got it out for you or something, but... I do have this little card I've been keeping in a safe place, with the label "In case of sanctimonious twat, break glass." Why are you on Moya in the first place? Huh? Do you remember that? Oh yeah- ''you '''killed''' a man!'' You murdered him in cold blood! The reason you're Reverend Treehugger Von Condescension is because, since then, [[Character Development|you have changed!]] [[Reformed Criminal|You have embraced a new path]]... ''WHICH [[The Atoner|AERYN]] HAS FRICKIN' DONE!'' The only difference between the two of you is ''she'' [[Punch Clock Villain|was a soldier following orders]], and you just figured you'd kill somebody because you thought he'd done something wrong, so you figured you'd pass judgement on him- which I guess just goes to show you haven't changed all that much, ''have you?''}}
** 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.]]
{{quote| Well, if you insist...<br />
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
Thanks for asking. }}
* [[Reference Overdosed]]
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{{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."
** "[[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
* [[Rule of Sexy]]: Kim Cattrall's replacement of Kirstie Alley in ''[[Star Trek VI:
{{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''."}}
** Why did Crichton decide to unlock Aeryn Sun's restraints and ask her to come with him in the premiere episode of ''[[
{{quote| '''Chuck:''' Because... because it's [[Claudia Black]], for god's sake! The woman's a hottie with a voice that can cause a man's fly to open by itself!}}
* [[Role Association]]: Invoked often, usually for [[Actor Allusion]] jokes.
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** His various "prizes" handed out at the end of each review, which include:
*** "Janeway Pie" (for when ''Voyager'''s autodestruct is used; a reference to her command code, "Janeway Pi-1-1-Alpha")
**** ''[[Star Trek III:
**** "Prime Factors" (VOY) got an honorary prize when Janeway baked a pecan pie.
*** "[[Burn, Baby, Burn]]" (for when a shuttlecraft is lost)
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*** "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
*** 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.
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** Neelix's cooking is entirely capable of destroying ''Voyager''... and alludes to the incident where Neelix almost destroyed the ship with '''Cheese'''.
** Picard's hatred of children, which are repeatedly referred to as his 'greatest nemesis'.
** "Accidentally" calling the Remans "[[The Usual Adversaries|Orks]]" before catching himself. Undoubtedly, Chuck's mind was on [[The Lord of the Rings (
** Chuck's overview of the plot of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' is based mostly around [[Walking Wasteland|whichever option lets the most people die]] all around Shepard. His running gag for this is saying, "[insert name][[Dramatic Pause|...]] is... now... DEAD."
*** My God... even Shepard's [[Chronic Pet Killer|pet fish]] [[Up to Eleven|aren't safe]]!
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** Confabs between Sisko and the other ''Trek'' captains. Picard is a long-winded pacifist, Janeway is her typical dastardly self, and Archer is gibbering in a corner.
*** Inverted in "In a Mirror, Darkly": Archer's in charge, with Kirk, Picard, and Sisko all sporting [[Beard of Evil|Beards of Evil]]. In this universe, Janeway (also bearded) is [[New Age Retro Hippie|a sweet-tempered hippie]].
*** Jake Sisko and [[Star Trek (
** 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").
** Repeatedly confusing Captain Jack Harkness with "[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack Sparrow]]."
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** He's only missed two scheduled updates, both due to outside forces, the first from a tornado knocking out power to his house for a few days, the second from some unknown technical glitch on the blip server.
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: At the start of the ''[[Night of the Comet]]'' review.
* [[Screwed
** And now, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg8KOFVLMAo this.]
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: He tries to do this in the "Unimatrix Zero" review after the sight of ''Neelix'' running Voyager's science station is followed up by the revelation that two rebel Borg drones have somehow commandeered a Borg Sphere, which is supposed to have a crew of several hundred, if not thousand drones.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Now with their [[SF Debris/Shout Out|own page]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: His reviews of ''[[
** His review of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** 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''.
** In his review of ''[[Star Trek II:
* [[Simple Country Lawyer]]: "I don't have much legal experience beyond knowing [[Self-Deprecation|not to sing 99 Luftballoons]]."
** Admits in "Darmok" that he's not a linguist, and Noam Chomsky won't even return his calls -- "since [[Noodle Incident|that incident]] with the rice pudding."
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* [[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!}}
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Invoked when he accuses ''[[
** 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]].
* [[Smug Snake]]: Chuck portrays Lutan from "Code of Honor" as a particularly unlikable Smug Snake, with every attempt to by Lutan to project authority and confidence failing and instead coming off as an entitled, childish, obnoxious idiot.
* [[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
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Chuck:''' Once again I will use the words 'magnetic balls' to show that I'm not anyone special myself.}}
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** 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."
{{quote| "Which lumps the [[Star Trek: Enterprise
** 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."
{{quote| "You know, the '''''VILLAIN!'''''"}}
** 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.
{{quote| "I'm sure Ed Wood thought ''[[Plan 9
* [[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.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[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!"
* [[The Stoic]]: Chakotay is interpreted as "half Native American, half tree" as a gag on Robert Beltran's sometimes wooden acting.
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** Chuck also snarkily points out how ironic it was that the Voyager episode "Dark Frontier" had the crew engage in piracy, while the DVD had a label against it. This is definitely a [[Take That]] against [[YouTube]] who took down his videos.
** Any given episode has a 50% chance of having one against either ''Voyager'' or ''Enterprise''.
** When O'Brien notes in "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" that Bashir could annoy hundreds of people he's never met if he becomes the template for a medical hologram, Chuck says it's like being [[
** When Spock's brain is stolen, Bones gives his prognosis as ''worse'' than death. "He's in ''[[Transformers (
** "Oh, that's not fair. As if ''anyone'' watches ''[[
** "The Outcast" (TNG) presents us with a world of genderless beings. Kinda like a world of bisexuals. "It's like ''Torchwood'', where your choices are either [[Everyone Is Bi|bisexual]] or [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Welsh]]."
** While examining how the language in "Darmok" could work, he brings up how people can instinctively perform actions without thinking about the words that go with them, like braking when you see someone in the road..."unless it's Rick Berman."
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* [[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| '''Chuck''': Poor people, having to put up with this hobby taking over... *yells offscreen* Get out! I told you, I am NOT playing, I am ''working''!}}
* [[Taking You
* [[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".
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* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: When Sisko, Spock and Kirk were in the same frame in "Trials and Tribble-ations" Chuck claims that his computer froze up and nearly broke as though it sensed the sheer awesomeness of that situation.
* [[Theme Song]]: One for every series, and one for the movies, most of them being [[Real Song Theme Tune|Real Song Theme Tunes]] (though ''[[
** ''Voyager'': "Harleys and Indians (Riders in the Sky)" by Roxette.
** ''Enterprise'': "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down.
*** The Second Part of the Mirror Universe episode opens with [[Special Edition Title|"Kryptonite" played backwards]].
** ''TNG'': "99 Red Balloons" by Nena<ref>which notably contains the lyric "Everyone's a superhero, everyone's a [[Star Trek:
*** Chuck used "Harleys and Indians (Riders in the Sky)" on the last few ''TNG'' reviews that were posted to [[YouTube]], after they started disabling the audio on some of the TNG videos with "99 Red Balloons."
*** For the episode "Darmok", about a culture with an inscrutable language barrier, he naturally uses the original German version of the song instead.
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*** For the DS9 episode ''Sacrifice Of Angels'' he added the theme from ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' as a closing theme tune.
** ''TOS'': "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as covered by, of course, [[William Shatner]].
** ''Trek'' Movies: "[[Monk|It's A Jungle Out There]]" by [[Randy Newman]]. (♪ You better pay attention, cause this world we love so much [[Dropped a Bridge
*** Though for ''[[Star Trek Nemesis
** ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "Good Lovin'", though a variation of the ''Doctor Who'' theme played during the Cyberman episodes from ''The Moonbase''. <!-- Good Lovin' was by an unknown artist, but originally by the Rascals -->
** ''[[Night of the Comet]]'': "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany.
** ''[[Sunshine (
** ''[[The Dark Knight]]'': "All Along The Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix
** ''[[
** ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** ''[[Mass Effect]]'' - "Don't Fear the Reaper" by ~Blue Öyster Cult~.
*** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOAiT7jzZzI&feature=channel_video_title trailer] is even better. "[[Aqua
** ''[[Twin Peaks]]'': "Way Back Home" by [[Bing Crosby]].
** ''[[
*** For the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bYbD8arWDs&feature=feedu trailer], "Hero" by Nickelback. Wait, wait, [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|come back]], [[Better Than It Sounds|it works!]]
** ''[[Firefly]]'': "Ride the Wind" by [[
** ''[[Blade Runner]]'': "Who Made Who" by [[
** ''[[Threshold]]'': "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by [[Bob Dylan]].
** ''[[The Man From Earth]]'': What else? "[[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]" by [[Queen]]!<ref>For posterity's sake, the original trailer featured "Baba Yetu" before YouTube pulled it.</ref>
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** 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?
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: In his review of "Daleks in Manhattan," a character who acts like King Solomon is actually named Solomon causes Chuck to have this reaction.
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Not a big fan of this trope in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact
* [[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.
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{{quote| "''Kes comes in to see Tuvok and, after a couple of minutes, Tuvok decides he'll try that plan of Harry's. There's a thing TV Tropes calls [[Unfortunate Implications]], and this seems to apply here: The only thing stopping the black guy and the Asian guy from beating each other up are white women.''"}}
** 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 (
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Parodied along with [[Executive Meddling]] in his review of "The Naked Now," where one (hypothetical) moronic executive thinks Geordi is wearing the visor because he's gay, making him gay, black, AND blind.
** 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...)
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== Tropes V-Z ==
* [[Values Dissonance]]: ''[[
** 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.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: He personally acknowledges one of them - prefacing rhetorical questions with the phrase "You might ask" - during his "The Nth Degree" review.
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* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Just listen to his "[[Evil Laugh|Mwu ha ha!!]]" when Neelix's lungs are stolen.
{{quote| "[[Monster of the Week|Tall stranger]], ''you'' are the wind beneath my wings."}}
** "[[Farscape
{{quote| "That's for sure. And he's...[[Flashdance|dancing like he's never danced before]].}}
** [[Babylon
{{quote| "Een heaven there eez no beer! That's vhy vee drink eet here!"}}
* [[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
** In a video dedicated to Kes, he theorizes that had her character arc been better planned out, she could have been an effective "River from ''[[
** 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 for Kids?]]: [[In
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Chuck puts up trailers for his reviews on [[YouTube]]. The [[
* [[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:
{{quote| '''Chuck :''' The script makes numerous comparisons to Earth:<br />
'''Data:''' That is from an obscure language known as French.<br />
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* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]/[[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: "Wait, so [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]: so Tom Paris not only flies the ship, the most important shuttle missions, is the field medic/assistant to the Doctor, has 24th century lock-picking ability... he's also a commando. Oh! And let's not forget he once designed an engine that goes to infinity. And this is the guy Starfleet doesn't want?"
* [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things]]: Classic television mistake: handing [[Slow Motion Drop|a highly-breakable cup]] to a [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|psychic]]. "Thanks, demons from the beyond!"
** This also appears to be [[Star Wars:
* [[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.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Worf seems to have finally overcome this in "By Inferno's Light", laying out 10 Jem'Hadar in a row.
{{quote| '''Chuck:''' [''Worf baritone''] "It was the 'hitting them' part that I was having trouble with."}}
** Chuck theorizes that the reason for this trope's existance is that Worf's commanding officers in ''[[Star Trek:
* [[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."}}
* [[X Meets Y]]: Okona is ''truly'' outrageous. Contagious. [[Jem|Okona's his name, no one else is the same.]]
{{quote| "He's some asshole in a puffy shirt, but everyone acts like he's equal parts Han Solo, James Bond, and Robin Hood -- when he's ''really'' equal parts Keanu Reeves, Pauly Shore, and Chris Kattan in ''[[A Night
* [[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 (
** Hey kids, it's [[Mark Sheppard]]! "Great chance to talk about this performer in a ''rare'' appearance '''[[Firefly
* [[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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