Not to confused with the time that Doctor Doom teamed up with Henry Kissinger . . ..

Note that “The Library” is apparently the place where Carol and Morgan were holed up. You can see shelves labeled “Fiction” and such in the background of their scenes.

One more suggestion: avoid the first season of TNG and the third season of TOS, at least at first. There’s good stuff to be found in both seasons, but neither exactly present TREK at its best.

“The One with the Whales” is my second-favorite Trek movie. It’s a feel-good movie that always leaves me grinning.

Thanks for the generous shout-out. Personally, I’d start with THE WRATH OF KHAN instead of FIRST CONTACT, but I’m an unrepentant old-school Trekkie. FIRST CONTACT is definitely the best of the TNG movies, and has one of my favorite Trek soundtracks to boot.

(Believe it or not, I was actually proofreading a TOS novel…

I would argue that Woody Allen’s PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is probably a better homage to CASABLANCA, but I’ll grant that it’s not remotely a comic-book movie. :)

Yep! Although right’s issues preclude that from being mentioned in any new adaptations.

She still shows up at Star Trek conventions occasionally. I saw her at Shore Leave a few years ago.

Or maybe Cathy Lee Crosby?

And Laura Vandervoort from SMALLVILLE . . ..

There did seem to be some buyer’s remorse going on there, and not just about the anti-religious themes. Note also that most of the trailers and TV spots did their best to hide the fact that the protagonist was a young girl. Just watching the ads, one could be forgiven for thinking that Daniel Craig was the hero of the…

Another classic that’s burned into my brain:

Not necessarily. Comics are a collaborative process, and the writers and artists have always responded to market forces, editorial inspirations, and, yes, the public’s changing perception of the character. And this can sometimes yield positive results . . . .like, as you say, Superman flying up, up, and away.

Or take…

And making Luthor a billionaire tycoon who had never met Clark before contradicted something like fifty years of stories. What’s the difference?

The “mythos,” as it were, has never been static.

I wouldn’t mind a tv series based on the new SABRINA horror comics. Might be a good companion to iZOMBIE or SUPERNATURAL.

And that Luthor graphic novel hasn’t been “destroyed”. We can still read it whenever we want. Just like we can still read and enjoy the old Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age stories that predated it. A good comic is a good comic, regardless of whether it still fits into the continuity, or whatever generation it was…

The point is none of this stuff is sacred or set in stone. The current continuity is just that: only the current continuity; there have been other iterations before and there will more alterations later—especially where DC Comics is confirmed.

So, fine, let the media versions cherry-pick from the various comic…

But, again, that idea that Clark and Lex were boyhood pals WAS part of the mythos for at least a generation before it was retconned away in eighties. You could argue that SMALLVILLE was just restoring the original status quo after Byrne “altered” it.

And sometimes such alternations are beneficial. Look at Alfred, who…

To be fair, SMALLVILLE hardly invented that notion. Those of us who remember the original, pre-Crisis continuity grew up with the idea that Clark and Lex had once been boyhood pals back in Smallville, before that unfortunate hair-loss incident . . ...