Could his waist rotate (I never had that particular mold)?

They did try to have the VW, but Paul Blackthorne is too damn tall to fit in it. Given the choice between losing Blackthorne or losing the car, they made the rational choice.

To keep something (or someone) sealed away?

Or the Star Wars fanfics where someone calls in Rouge Squadron.

This continuity is confusing.

“People love those!” —some spaceman with a normal-sized helmet.

He looks like a Darktrooper from the old Dark Forces video game. Maybe Kyle missed a few.

I like to think that bearded guy is Grand Admiral Zaarin or Grand Moff Zsinj.

Though by the time of RotJ, the Holonet was under direct Imperial control, so the Alliance couldn’t use it to get the word out. They would’ve been using couriers, a few steps behind the Imperial propaganda machine, exactly as shown in the trailer.

Or a very tiny Gundam.

Hey, it’s morning rush hour in Toronto, only much more organized and logical.

I’d love an excuse to learn shogi.

“Oh my god! What’s that?!?” *points*

I wouldn’t call Crowley a con artist. He’s a perfectly ethical businessman. In fact, we saw one time he found one of his subordinates cheating the customers, he ripped him a terminal new one.

*watches the bees hatching*

“Somebody threw out a perfectly good Old Guy.”

If you’re talking about ringworlds and dyson spheres, it doesn’t follow that they’d be as necessary as Kardashev seems to think (and completed dyson spheres would be hard to detect anyway because they don’t glow). I disagree that energy-consumption is the defining characteristic of supercivilizations; our own…

No, no it wouldn’t.

Lest we forget, Star Trek is technically post-apocalypse (World War III and the ensuing Post-Atomic Horror). The apocalypse itself certainly wasn’t pleasant, but we rebuilt into something better.

Also, don’t extrapolate one thing into the future (computers) and ignore everything else (medical technology, transportation, communication, astronomy, engineering, manufacturing, law, etc). Look at the details.