I noticed that, but I wish they'd just give him back his damn briefs. He's so close to having his proper look back now.

Near the end, McCoy reappears from his apparent death, flanked by two scantily-clad Rigellian chorus girls. The Yeoman confronts him, and he regretfully suggests to them that they'll turn something up. One attaches herself to Sulu, who smiles from ear to ear.

And as soon as he realizes it's not Spock, he gruffly tells her to stop and dismisses her.

Spock explicitly never went through pon farr before "Amok Time". (He'd hoped his half human genes would spare him entirely till then.) But it's implied that pon farr just forces the issue, rather than being the only time it's possible.

Yeah. I have no problem with the idea (especially since it doesn't really contradict anything onscreen outside of one scene in the animated series). But it seems as if it was cooked up in part to honor Takei, so the fact that he objects (evidently pretty strongly) should be taken into account.

I think that's to emphasize the arbitrariness. (And to encourage identification by the segment of the audience deemed most in need of the lesson.) The audience, whatever their own ingrained prejudices, is supposed to be unable to see a substantive difference between the two.

I can definitely picture a Vladimir Putin type rising to power and succeeding Chancellor Gorkon and imagine how the federation might find itself in a similar situation to where we are now).

"Look, when you guys said we were post-scarcity, I figured it meant we were post-scarcity."

Transporter accident is a popular choice. Also glowy immaterial alien-induced pregnancy and straightforward cloning.

"So the main character had a mentor named Pike and a close friend called 'Bones'. And you've got actors using names like 'Pine' and 'Greenwood' and 'Cumberbatch'. But you're saying it isn't gay porn?"

I'm sure they'd address any human faith with the same smugly superior tolerance they apply to Klingon and Bajoran beliefs.

Have we ever seen regulars having any Terran religion? (Give or take Kirk's "we find the one quite sufficient" when Apollo asks him to worship the Greek gods.)

Right— the correct response was to not read Alpha Flight because it got terrible.

Yeah— TMP is the closest of all the movies to an extended-length TOS episode. (Basically "The Changeling" + "The Doomsday Machine", even going so far as to feature the son of the guest character from the latter.) It's just that the length is primarily extended by all the cool effects shots they didn't have the budget…

Wrath of Khan doesn't strike me as all that tonally different from "Balance of Terror". (They're both basically submarine movies in space.)

Him, Kirk's dad, the entire population of Vulcan…

To be fair, the first season of Star Trek had no Chekov. Ditto the animated series. (Replaced by some alien whose name escapes me. Maybe they should add him to the movies!)

He pretty clearly at least intended to at the beginning of "Wolf in the Fold", before events turned tragic. But of course it never happened, due to his being possessed by an interstellar serial killer.

While it would be nice if there were a straightforward way of importing the good stuff from tie-ins (I deeply wish we'd gotten John M. Ford's Klingons instead of the TNG samurai mongolvikings), it doesn't seem practical. Even remaining consistent with a series bible and broadcast episodes is sometimes beyond a…

I just looked over the scene (thanks, Netflix!), and honestly if it's there, it's too subtle for me. He gives her a side-eye, but it could as easily be reacting to the comm officer being put at the nav station or a shared moment of tension with her given the situation. It's not visibly directed below eye level or…