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** Notes that Tim Russ seems to play characters who are on the recieving end of the Vulcan nerve pinch, more than anyone else in the franchise. Even though, as Tuvok, his character has three times the strength of a normal human... and he ''still'' gets knocked out this way!

** When weighing the triumphs of Trek's respective Captains -- forestalling the Borg invasion of Earth, sealing away the Pah-Wraiths and saving the entire Alpha Quadrant, preserving the very existence of all sapient life, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers getting into a sissy fight with some criminals on a catwalk]] -- we see Archer proudly accepting his accolades while [[Film/TheKarateKid1984 "You're the Best"]] blares. ("These Are the Voyages...")

** ''Film/HowardTheDuck'': "Loser" by Music/{{Beck}}.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Mentioned InUniverse in the review of ''Series/TheXFiles'' Pilot. SF Debris claims that the show is one of the best TV product of and biggest influence on TheNineties, and that today it might seem uninspired or cliché, however, when it first aired, it was very innovative.

* WTHCastingAgency: Invoked while discussing the decision the director of "Code of Honor" made to cast the aliens of the week entirely with African-Americans:
-->'''Chuck :''' The script makes numerous comparisons to Earth:\\
'''Data:''' That is from an obscure language known as French.\\
'''Picard:''' ...and [the Ligonian society's] unique similarity to an ancient Earth culture we all admire. On behalf of the Federation, therefore, I would like to present this token of our gratitude and friendship, from China's Song Dynasty.\\
'''Data:''' For example, what Lutan did is similar to what certain American-Indians once did, called "Counting Coup."\\
'''Chuck :''' So, of course... the director interpreted this to mean that everybody was black.

** ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' and ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': "Panama" by Music/VanHalen.

* SelfDeprecation: Chuck after spending the first eight minutes of [[http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/transformers1.php his review]] of ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' talking in deep detail about how the relationship of the summer blockbuster to science fiction is both blessing and curse. After the commercial break:

* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: "The first half of TheNineties 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 [[AcceptableTargets the default bad guys]] in fiction."

** In "Death Wish", Janeway lauds Q for his honesty. This calls for a StupidStatementDanceMix, Music/FleetwoodMac-style!

* ToTheBatNoun: Chakotay's Sacred [insert noun here].
-->[clutches head] "Agh! I shouldn't have drunk that Sacred Smoothie so quickly!"

* SharedUniverse: He cameod in Linkara's review of One More Day, making him part of the Reviewaverse. He also provided his Psycho Janeway for Linkara's review of a Star Trek Voyager comic.

** This is his biggest criticism of ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. The settup ''could'' have been one of the best entries in the franchise, but instead they made a completely mindless action flick (and [[IdiotPlot made all of the characters idiots]] in the process).

* UpToEleven: Chuck has commented that, despite having years to plan and prepare for their year-long mission into space, the madness onboard the NX-01 isn't noticeably different from it's beleaguered counterpart two centuries in the future -- the ''U.S.S. Voyager''. Captain Archer proves to be even more unstable and reckless than Janeway, willingly stranding his crew three hundred years from home (as opposed to Janeway's 'mere' 90 years, which was accidental) rather than apologize to alien natives for drowning one of their holy sites in dog piss. ("A Night in Sick Bay")
** In fact, the NX-01 is even ''more'' understaffed than ''Voyager'' (eighty crew members to VOY's paltry one hundred and fifty), to the degree that Phlox has no nurses to help him and must rope Hoshi Sato, Ph.D into cleaning up vomit in the Sick Bay. (Shades of Tom Paris!) So, what happens if the ''non''-holographic, ''non''-indestructible Doctor gets killed or incapacitated? ("Minefield")
--->"I've heard "''Physician, heal thyself''", but that probably shouldn't be your ship's official medical policy."

* [[invoked]] TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Chuck suggests many avenues in which characters could have developed, particularly characters that did not receive any development during the course of the shows.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: His review of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. The first time he ever reviewed a video game (it was actually [[LetsPlay a full-length annotated playthrough]], followed by his usual detailed analysis).

** [[invoked]]Neelix in "Q2", when he taunts the temporarily depowered "[[FanNickname Harry Potter]]" by ''refusing to shut up'', as revenge for Q's son having used his powers to previously remove both his mouth and vocal chords. Chuck points out the stupidity of taunting a Demigod that will get his powers ''back'' in a week.

** When a brain virus leaves Riker comatose, he-- ....no, wait. You better see this one for yourself. ("Shades of Grey")

* SocietyMarchesOn: Lampshaded in his review of "Angel One", where the Federation go in prepared with the most up-to-date information they have on the planet... from over 62 years ago. Chuck points out how stupid it is that societies never seem to evolve in ''Trek'', noting that in 1950's America a black man could be arrested from drinking from the wrong fountain, but skip-forward to the present day and a black man has just been elected President for the ''second'' time.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: Referenced in a review, regarding UnfortunateImplications.
-->"''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 UnfortunateImplications, 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 [[ShoutOut "Alert TV Tropes!"]] in order to update [[EightPointEight 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 ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' references a large number of tropes by name, and the general approach to the review is in line with the feel of this website, all the way up to, and including... '''''Creator/BrianBlessed!'''''
** In the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' review he implored viewers not to tag him with a Did Not Do the Research entry on his supposition that the constellation system for gate co-ordinates didn't make sense because he had no time to scan through all 10 seasons of the [[Series/StargateSG1 TV series]] for an explanation.
*** In a meta example of not doing research the Did Not Do the Research trope had been recently [[Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub red linked]] because [[SeriousBusiness TV Tropes is not for pointing out errors]].

* ShapedLikeItself: Brought up in his second MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic-related review. He mentions that, since Discord was largely based off of Q, Lauren Faust had wanted his VA to "sound like Creator/JohnDeLancie". She ended up with... John de Lancie.

** His review of WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic discusses the franchise and Lauren Faust's past works.

* ThemeSong: One for every series, and one for the movies, most of them being {{Real Song Theme Tune}}s (though ''Series/RedDwarf'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica 2003}}'', ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', ''Series/TheXFiles[[note]](It's the Blue Man Group cover version of the X-files theme)[[/note]]'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' cartoons[[note]](A remix of the original cartoon theme, even for ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'')[[/note]], and ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandaloneComplex'' use their own respective themes, ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'' use their ''ending'' themes, "Magia" and "Agony" respectively, and ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'', oddly enough, has ''no'' theme song), generally dating from the same era, and usually with some thematic connection to their respective series:

** He then went on to make her the hero in his {{Crossover}} fanfic FanFic/TheUnitySaga... [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter and promptly wasted her]], as she was acting for two novels and a half as a borderline suicidal lunatic. Constantly switching back and forth between Borg mode and Human mode also turned out to be a very bad idea.

** This is his biggest criticism of Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness. The settup ''could'' have been one of the best entries in the franchise, but instead they made a completely mindless action flick (and [[IdiotPlot made all of the characters idiots]] in the process).

-->'''Kim:''' It's...debris...\\

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[{{Inuniverse}} Acknowledges this trope]] when discussing David Lynch and surrealists in general. In his opinion, what separates Lynch from the others is that he doesn't fall into this trope: all of his surreality seems to serve a higher purpose.

* ValuesDissonance: ''Franchise/StarTrek'' may have been FairForItsDay, but [[{{InUniverse}} Chuck]] uncomfortably points out how most of the ''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).

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

** His review of episode 8 of ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'' has him so infuriated by what can be summed up as "magic lesbians" that he declares "Fuck this episode, I'm out!"

* ThemeSong: One for every series, and one for the movies, most of them being {{Real Song Theme Tune}}s (though ''Series/RedDwarf'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica 2003}}'', ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', ''Series/TheXFiles[[note]](It's the Blue Man Group cover version of the X-files theme)[[/note]]'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' cartoons[[note]](A remix of the original cartoon theme, even for ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'')[[/note]], and ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandaloneComplex'' use their own respective themes, ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''Manga/KannazukinoMiko'' use their ''ending'' themes, "Magia" and "Agony" respectively, and ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'', oddly enough, has ''no'' theme song), generally dating from the same era, and usually with some thematic connection to their respective series: