my joke answer to #11 is that, since the Federation boasts they exist in a moneyless economy (which is ridiculous in itself) that cooking the books is pretty damm easy!

I don't know about anybody else here, but if I was appointed to the 'Committee on Science, Space, and Technology' I'd think it was my responsibility to actually understand the subject matter.

And here is the problem in a nutshell.

When I was a kid it sounded to me like my printer was saying "brush your teeth and go to bed-a" over and over.

Definitely so; but if that's the best you've got, clearly I've no worries about being succeeded by your superior intellect.

The "ding! ding!" when you drove over the cable at the gas station, alerting the attendant that a car had arrived, ready to buy gasoline and have the oil & water checked and the windows cleaned. Or, that some kids were in the lot, jumping up and down on the cables, in need of being chased off.

Extended Dynamic Range cassette test-tones: You just knew that this tape was going to sound almost as good as your LPs!

For me, as far as computers go, it was the modem sound (already mentioned multiple times) and also the sound of a dot-matrix printer. Pages and pages used to come buzzing out of my printer, so I could check and revise code. I had is set for maximum speed, minimum DPI (manual switches back then). Okidata printer, I…

Being "old" I have a number.

haha high five that was me too lol. "Who picked up the phone I was online!?!?!?!?!?! Damn it now I gotta log back on!!!!" Can yu feel the frustration of days long past?

Ah, the soft chugging of a 5.25" floppy. So soothing.

Eh, MA isn't so bad with the Canadian Men. Although, I have no clue why so many people would be interested in Canadian Men and who these weirdos are. Just kidding, I google Canadian Men at least twice a day in the hopes someday, someone would do a map like this and it would skew the results to ridiculousness.

I said this right after I saw the film. "Was the battle a fucking secret? CURRENT DAY NASA would detect that battle!"

@Annalee Newitz — two questions

I'm going to go with one that has always gnawed at me, but that never gets a lot of airplay because the second season episode of TNG it came from largely sucked.

How do you figure?

Kirk still has problems with object permanence and has to see the whales to know they are safely aboard.

3. Some people aren't remembering things the movie actually explained or everything that happened in it.

Sometimes I feel like these "plothole" threads lose sight of the difference between "Conceit" and "Plot".

Two things we can learn from the comments: