In the 18th century, the bins were placed on wheels and were known as "tumbrls", from which the modern website takes its name.

It's possible to recognize and appreciate progress without saying no more is needed.

I suspect the past looks less complex for the same reason a landscape or skyline looks simple from a distance and full of massive detail close up, combined with the fact that we know how it turned out. I'm seriously doubtful that it was actually less complicated to grapple with in the moment.

No, this is Babou, no doubt being given a vitamin shot to make sure his coat is all glossy: http://www.agonybooth.com/w…

Looks like it wasn't. (Confirmed with the awesome Star Trek Script Search page, http://scriptsearch.dxdy.name/ )

Next you'll tell me that there's no kingdom of Arendelle in Scandinavia, there was a dearth of non-royal principalities inside early modern France, and that Triton's claim to the Atlantean throne is hotly disputed by historians.

Wonder Woman has even visited Asgard. http://static5.comicvine.co…

It's a complicated story involving a villain team-up and Doom saying something disparaging about Sleipnir in Loki's presence…

But an Empress, not a princess. Besides, they haven't even officially inducted Leia Organa, who is both a Disney-owned character and a princess.

As Sansa Stark and Daenerys Targaryen learned, while it's possible to go from princess to a position of de facto or de jure authority, actual princesses qua princesses are almost always bargaining chips for the exercise of someone else's agency.

I'd like to see Wally, but for the sake of TV and animated franchises I'd kind of also like to see Time Warner get over the hump of "we can have simultaneous multiple interpretations of our iconic characters without confusing the audience".

In TOS they had Rand and Chapel. It is odd that they decided to pare that down to just Uhura for the movie.

And Puerto Rico is an island, and so is likely to retain that name through any border shifts or dissolutions short of renaming it Spaceport One.

So that's a no on going to the brain slug planet and walking around for a while without a hat on?

Though he still chose to write lyrics about a woman's gentleman friend finding interstellar strange rather than, say, "Alex, thanks loads for the theme song. I'll take half the money— is that wrong? …"

There's also the conceit that this is a branch off the same history as the original up until twenty-odd years ago. They dispense with it as needed, so it doesn't matter that much. But Scotty, McCoy, etc. had multiple episodes in which their interest in a woman is center stage, vs. Sulu who had about ten seconds of…

Given that the animated series adapted Larry Niven's "The Soft Weapon", clearly an episode in which Kirk replaces Genly Ai, and Estraven is his love interest of the week, should have been slated for a second season. Since their animation budget was so limited, they could even recycle the "struggling across a winter…

He also looks very excited when first one and then the other of Doctor McCoy's Rigellian chorus girls sidle up to him near the end of "Shore Leave".

Right. Shatner's Kirk would show occasional bravado, but usually that was a tactic. He was much more prone to conscientious concern about fulfilling his responsibilities, which frequently conflicted. Modern Kirk is like a caricature of the character by someone who's only heard about him secondhand.

I had forgotten that the episode was written by SF stalwart Theodore Sturgeon. Who later established that while Nurse Chapel could do nothing to help Spock, rolling around on the ground in a clinch with Kirk was sufficient to resolve his Pon Farr.