Memory Alpha says he also visibly checks her out (in the middle of a battle!) in "Balance of Terror".

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And do we even know that the Thermians have sexual dimorphism or gender identities, or if they do, that the individual's sex or gender maps at all to which humanoid hologram they decided to use?

One weird note to this is that ever since Takei came out, he's been adamant that this does NOT mean Sulu should be considered gay, and as far as he was concerned, the character was still straight.

The whole timeline shift in the first Abrams movie is mostly a handwave, since there are changes in the movies that don't spring from a shift a couple decades earlier, like the new look for Klingons, etc. But for fun, I'm trying to think if there's anything in Sulu's original appearances that would contradict this.

I'm only seeing Region 2 discs. Am I missing a release playable in a standard US player?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that. Though it was only a few months ago that I learned that it was based on a real ice cream turf war in Scotland: http://www.atlasobscura.com…

It would be sort of fun if it turned out they had a massively complex orrery that looks like the opening credits.

While I'm all in favor of trying to come up with plausible explanations, Martin's said more than once that the explanation for the seasons is magical rather than physical. E.g.,

To be fair, they did that long before they contemplated creating a large shared universe or an ongoing continuity.

DC has generally been as deliberately vague about the specifics of just where its fictional cities are as the Simpsons creators are about Springfield's location. And leaving aside the Simpsons being a parody, for much the same reason: to maintain creative flexibility.

I much preferred the Bronze Age, where DC acknowledged that it had a history and built on it while selectively deemphasizing the elements that didn't fit the current tone, to its post-1985 model of constantly rewriting events and characters.

He was a centaur trapped in a horse's body, who took on human form when a comet was in the sky as a consolation prize.

The 80s origin given for Rex was Captain America's, with the eminently sensible change of doing animal testing first.

Even pre-Code, DC was intentionally positioning themselves as the family-friendly company in contrast to the real trash. Superman and Batman stopped using lethal force pretty quickly, and one of Wonder Woman's big selling points was that she was the product of a respected academic, who could testify that comics were…

Krypto, a super-powered Kryptonian dog who snuck aboard Kal-El’s escape pod when their planet

Look magazine took its mandate seriously.

They were going to call him American Knight, but that name apparently has a Google problem

Proper original flavor Superman just grabs him (and Stalin) to be judged in Geneva for their crimes.

Australia's ecosystem would eat the U.S. ecosystem for lunch.