Back when I was turning wrenches for a living, William Shatner was a customer.
One of my coworkers always wanted to ask him
“So what’s it like to screw a chrome chick?”
Starships may be able to have FTL, but homing beacons tend to be radio signals. It’ll be a couple of thousand years before the Delta Quadrant folks get the message.
P.S. I just made that up; it probably bears no resemblance whatsoever to the physics of the TNG-verse.
No mystery there. The oldest son, Mike, got married and moved out of the house. The real-world explanation was that the actor, Tim Considine had a falling-out with the shows producers. He did appear in one final episode where his character and his fiancé, played by Meredith MacRae, had a wedding.
We’ll never know, because the real case remains unsolved/open.
In the real case, the prime suspect was ‘the Fish Man’ who correlates with the Araber of Homicide . And who, like the Araber, was interviewed several times and then died before any significant case could be made.
Not every detail has been annotated, but the essential idea behind the series is documented. John is basically one of many lower level angels or other sort of divine agent sent by god or the universe after 9/11 to reopen people’s eyes to see things from a greater perspective in order to steer us away from the path of genocide, and also help the surfer kid attain his special destiny.
Dang! You too huh. That has bugged me for years. I spent the next 40 episodes waiting…just knowing the Russian “interior decorator” was going to come back for Paulie. Story lines were so subtle and lengthy in the Sopranos that surely that day had to come.
But nope. Nadda. Not a sausage. In fact Tony’s Russian mafia connection seemed to fade away after the Pine Barrens which also bothered me because it was a rich vein for more complex stories.