Shouldn't it be "pyramidiot," though?

But Kirk did say "Beam us up, Scotty" twice in the animated series ("The Infinite Vulcan" and "The Lorelei Signal"), "Scotty, beam us up fast" in "The Savage Curtain," and "Scotty, beam me up!" in The Voyage Home.

Very sad news. Stan was my first real mentor in the business; his rejection letters taught me a lot about writing, helping me improve my work until the point where I made my first professional fiction sale to him (and by a startling coincidence, it was published in the very issue whose cover you used to illustrate…

Right. Coyotl is the Nahuatl word from which the Spanish and English word coyote is derived. I like it that they're moving beyond German as a source for Wesen names — last time we had a French name, Mauvais Dentes, and this time it's Nahuatl.

I'm skeptical of claims that the news media are self-aware.

If they had to set the "body" alight, then it wasn't spontaneous combustion. It was just being flammable enough to burn up quickly if ignited by an external source. That kinda misses the whole point of the word "spontaneous."

Heck, look at a cassowary. Those things are scary. Aside from having wings and beaks instead of arms and teeth, they're essentially raptor dinosaurs that live... on Earth... right now.

There were two NBC shows last season whose pilots weren't indicative of how the shows ended up, because of showrunner changes. Awake's pilot was absolutely brilliant, but the series was unfocused and inconsistent, seeming to repeatedly change its mind about what its focus would be and what the nature of its world was.…

Mama Hexenbiest actually said Renard was "barely human." Still, his "game face" did seem to be only halfway there, so I agree he's probably part-Wesen and part-human (or should I keep up the Germanic theme and say part-Mensch?).

It was Nina's nails digging into her palm that made her hand bleed. I figure either the pulling was really stressful for her, or maybe she was deliberately causing herself pain to try to keep her addiction to her power under control.

They should design these so that the air intake is the same kind of valve as on a car tire, so you can "refuel" using the air compressors at ordinary gas stations. Although getting a full tank that way would probably take a long time and a lot of quarters...

That was my cat Tasha to a T. She'd always spend about 2-3 hours before mealtime begging for food, and in the morning she'd mewl at my bedroom door and try to scratch her way through in order to get me to feed her. And then she was very affectionate when I'd come out of my room and head downstairs. And her brother…

Omnilingualism would be my first pick for a superpower too. I'd like to be able to understand everything I heard or read. Aside from that, I'd probably pick rapid healing/regeneration a la Wolverine or Jack Harkness. Flight would be kinda neat too, but I'm not crazy about heights, and it gets cold and windy up there.…

Young Justice puts Gotham City roughly where Bridgeport, Connecticut is in real life, according to a map shown in a first-season episode.

No Mark Hamill Joker? Surely the best maniacal laugher in the business — except maybe for Frank Gorshin's Riddler, who was pretty much the model for Hamill's Joker.

From what I understand, a given trait is rarely caused by a single gene, but rather by the interaction of multiple genes. So rather than a "magic gene," there'd be a whole set of genes that would have to work together to imbue magical ability. Perhaps each of Hermione's parents only had some of the "magic genes" but…

In fact, it was made into the episode of the '66 Batman series that's been discussed in other comments. It was the very first Joker storyline in the series, "The Joker is Wild"/"Batman is Riled," and much of it is a fairly direct, scene-by-scene adaptation of "The Joker's Utility Belt."

Make that all the live-action Trek series. Voyager's writer's room was initially run by Jeri Taylor (answering to Piller for the first season or two), and then Brannon Braga took over in season 5, with Ken Biller running season 7 while Braga focused on creating Enterprise. So the only Trek series that never had a…

What about the lightsaber? If you shoved it into the ground (assuming you could reach rock under all that snow/ice) and moved it around for a while, wouldn't it turn the rock molten and provide a pretty toasty heat source? So was Han maybe overlooking a more direct way of using that weapon to keep Luke warm?

No, they're saying Africans show evidence of interbreeding with another branch of the hominin family tree, much as Europeans show evidence of interbreeding with Neanderthals. It's all just different varieties of human.