Including several not outright owned by out-of-state billionaires. At least until Zuckerberg gets bored again.

I don't think he's going to beat President Obama's grand total of 217 vacation days this year, but it won't be for lack of trying.

And that young boy grew up to be Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. And now you know… the rest… of the story.

Checkmate!

I had no problem with those two characters from the beginning. It was the two that were the focus of the continuing storylines that became unbearable.

I dunno; with all the secret familial connections, it's starting to feel like late-season Chuck (not a good thing).

That'd only be true if you still had local brick-n-mortar stores. Since Tower Records, Sam Goody, and Borders all collapsed, my city has been bereft.

That's the kind of thinking that gave us DS9's holocommunicator!

We never saw it on screen, but that compartment you refer to is a removable mission module that slides in under the runabout's dorsal spine, and can be easily swapped out for another module, like a specialized science/medical lab or a cargo container.

Not actually disagreeing with your point, but from TNG on, Federation shuttles were warp-capable, armed with phasers (and sometimes "microtorpedoes") and offered a replicator for refreshments. The larger ones even had small transporter pads at the back of the cabins.

Presumably there is a cost to whatever process they use to manufacture antimatter. The ships' onboard tanks of antideuterium do need to be replenished every so often, and they can't create more on board. Once that fuel runs out, they'd be down to the fusion reactors, which are insufficient for warp speeds.

As I think Riker himself explained more than once to Picard, it was the First Officer's job to lead Away Missions, while the Captain was supposed to remain safely on the ship. A fact which they immediately ignored for the next seven seasons.

This is the pre-Holodeck era, which must have cut down on the mopping by about 90%.

Fascist power fantasies depicting white men as more muscular than Olympian gods and white women shaped (and sometimes dressed) like adult film stars beating up poor people criminals.

Heh. I always assumed "American Empire" was just a more modern translation of the same name. I may be mistaken, but I think there's a reference to a Poseidon nation/organization somewhere in SAC, as well.

Her flitter was visibly parked at the top of the staircase, which would be at "street" level, I guess.

Fine with me, as long as we still get Cameron's Gunnm.

No one watches Film Club around here? I always assumed he was "Northeasterner."

Away. Blow… away. You keep forgetting to say "away."

When Keanu Reeves was rumored to be attached, I was not hopeful. Now, in the middle of the John Wick trilogy, I wonder what might have been.