Heck, look at the very first episode NBC chose to air: "The Mantrap." Uhura is flirting shamelessly with Spock right from the beginning: "Tell me about the moons on your planet, Mister Spock."

Throw in her serenading him in "Charlie X," just a few episodes later, and viewers back in 1966 could be forgiven for…

But there's nothing in "The Naked Time" to indicate that he made up the bowling alley or was hallucinating in any way. He was drunk and uninhibited, not deranged. As far as I'm concerned, the bowling alley is canon. :)

There's also supposedly a swimming pool, which has shown up in some of the novels . . ..

I can't listen to more than a few minutes of the audio versions of my books. Ditto for the occasional filmed interview or whatever.

You can add Barnabas Collins (from "Dark Shadows") and Vincent (from the original "Beauty and the Beast" TV series) to this list.

Leaping lizards!

You should also check out An East Wind Coming by Cover, in which immortals in the future roleplay Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.

You know, I assumed that this article was going to be about some homophobic meltdown over "rainbow" cake being gay propaganda, but apparently you don't even need a hot-button issue for a comments thread to go insane . . ..

Cave woman, dinosaurs, and special effects by Ray Harryhausen? Sounds like sci-fi to me.

Sigh. Can we just stipulate that "Science Fiction" is often simply shorthand for SF/Fantasy/Horror when it comes to headlines? Let's not get too nitpicky about it.

Yep, "Tarzan and His Mate" is far and away the raciest of the old TARZAN movies, and the one with the skimpiest costumes. They toned it tone in the subsequent films in the series.

Posey should've played Lois.

"Arena."

"Five Million Miles to Earth" (aka "Quatermass and the Pit") is probably the best scifi you'll see on TV this week. I love that movie.

Then again, Christopher Reeve didn't show up until well into the 1978 film, after the Krypton and Smallville and Arctic sequences. (I remember my younger siblings getting a bit squirmy wondering when Superman was going to appear . . . .)

Fans tend to overestimate the importance of name-recognition when gauging the commercial prospects of any upcoming comics adaptation. BLADE, THE MASK, HELLBOY, MEN IN BLACK, and HELLBOY were all pretty obscure, but their movies were hits. And IRON MAN and GHOST RIDER were hardly household names. If name-recognition…

I wonder how many people will expect "Les Miserables" to be all happy and smiley?

An odd choice, but consider me intrigued. Now if they'd just get around to the Spectre.

I'll second that one. The original novel is good, too.

And this the part where I mention that's based on a World Fantasy Award-winning novel by Richard Matheson, and that a Broadway musical version is currently in the works.

While I'm always glad to see "Somewhere in Time" get some love, I have to point out that it's not remotely a romantic COMEDY. It's a classic time-travel romance, but it's sad and melancholy and tragic, not funny.