Only Nemesis really is a clunky strained attempt at rerunning Wrath of Khan, with the clunky faux-Mutara Nebula, faux-Spock countdown sacrifice stuff. Into Darkness has the clunky repetition of moments of Wrath of Khan, but is otherwise a very different movie with a very different Khan. And Trek '09 isn't either,…

Yes. Because there could be but time travel every single week on the show. Countless real bad things happen on the show: beloved characters die, planets explode, starships are destroyed. But we don't say "Why didn't Picard jump around the sun to stop Wolf 359?" "Why didn't Sisko use the Orb of Time to keep Starfleet…

I'm pretty sure I read in The War for Late Night that Stewart and Kimmel have the same agent, who is also Simmons' agent. So that's probably a pretty decent path into that scoop.

The best funny newsman remains Carl Kasell.

Just read the Wikipedia summary of that. It seems thoroughly nuts.

Leonard Nimoy did a surprisingly good version of it, now a bit poignant, as well: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Forget Swift. Buzzfeed Leno is a global leader?

Underrated future comedy in that movie is watching Vinnie Del Negro and Avery Johnson talk shit about Eddie's ability to be a good coach.

If the last several years of Argo, The Artist, and Birdman have taught us anything, it's that the Academy loves movies about movies and movie making. Clearly, your 2016 Best Picture winner will be Entourage: The Movie.

Originally read this as David Schwimmer as OJ Simpson, which would be fascinatingly watchable.

Given Wichita plays in Charles Koch Arena, I think we know where Sam Brownback's loyalty lies.

It would be a celebrated in-state rivalry if Wichita State had been good for more than a hot second. Reading up on the past meetings, the reason they stopped doing it was that Kansas was way, way, better than Wichita. The last four times they met in the early 90s, Kansas out scored them by an average of 35 points a…

Bob Dole tried to have his own lame version of it for the 96 election, but I think he got sued.

I remember reading those, and reading that Laettner had a pretty good attitude about that: Knowing he was the 12th man and the low guy on the totem pole, and being amazed at being along for the ride with these guys.

Not only did they not have to play 2 games in one day in '08, a 4-12 Georgia team did, and WON THEM BOTH.

One was a UNC alum who apparently wrote a book called "Duke Sucks." Dude, you've got 3 titles and 8 Final Fours since Laettner played. You're just as obnoxious.

Plus then you wouldn't have had the comedy gold of Stockton being the only Dream Team member nobody recognized on the streets of Barcelona, filming himself walking around talking to huge Dream Team fans, none of them recognizing him. http://sports.yahoo.com/blo…

Yeah. More interviews with either teammates or opponents telling interesting stories, less of "This one time, I made a youtube video about how Duke Sucks, and it got so many views!"

I did love the revisionist history that somehow everyone really loved Tark's UNLV teams.

Not to mention that "grittiness" seemed to get him every single call. How much fun it was when Kansas's front line knocked him on his ass in the Final Four back in '08.