Isn't the analog softness and color fringing more… human?

Yes, I understand there's some other version of the movie on the disc. I haven't had occasion to watch that one.

I'm occasionally tempted, but while I know that millions of people go in for that sort of thing, downloading (and necessarily uploading) Disney IP through a peer-to-peer system strikes me as asking for trouble in the long run.

Yeah. They're low resolution (letterboxed non-anamorphic), but no worse than VHS to start and probably better after the tape's been through the machine a few times.

If the Eugenics Wars and WWIII weren't the same thing, then it was apparently possible to have a global war (one with territorial conquests comprising forty countries and a quarter of Earth's population) without destroying civilization. Also supported by the fact that after Khan's defeat, Earth still had an…

I assume the boinking would have happened immediately pre-battle in the time-honored "we may not live to see tomorrow, but we have tonight" fashion. The rest would be a matter of the Romulans not summarily executing the POWs. (At least till Tasha's ill-fated escape attempt.)

I'm not sure the writers knew that when STIV was written. We were aware of the Eugenics Wars (from Khan) and World War III (from Colonel Green), though it wasn't entirely clear if they were the same war or different ones. But the idea that Earth was knocked back to survivors huddling in isolated settlements doesn't…

Though the result is kind of to highlight the way all the other species are monocultures. E.g., the episode where every species performed a religious ceremony, and the Earth delegation was a bunch of people of different religions and nonreligions identifying their sect, to show off our diversity.

On the other hand, that potentially would have made Sela an interesting opposite number to Worf. (Both even orphaned and then raised by members of another species as a result of events in the same conflict.)

While also referencing the fact that surrendering the ship was almost the first thing we ever saw the main timeline Picard do, in "Encounter at Farpoint".

"Well, I'm gonna be honest. The statue looks a little more like this:

DS9 tended to be a little broad in its characterization of the 20th century. (Also a reason I'm not as fond of "Far Beyond the Stars" as many, along with the completely ahistorical way they portray the production of a midcentury SF magazine.) TOS also had the cast run afoul of authority figures and give…

That was just an illustrative example. The redone opening credits for that episode (one of my favorite bits from the entire series) indicate that Earth was on a more warlike path long before its first contact with the Vulcans.

Though that still presumably requires that Yar have been captured rather than dying in the Enterprise-C's last stand, which is kind of anticlimactically cruel to the character.

Only during the periods when Ollie goes "back to basics" and uses standard arrows. I'm pretty sure that a quiver full of minaturized electronics, drug delivery devices, and Rube Goldberg contraptions costs.

I hear there's a play of some current note that ends when (spoiler!) the sitting Vice President kills the former Treasury secretary in a duel. (Both principals were at times widely believed to be engaged in a conspiracy to commit actual treason.)

Hm. And so was V'ger, who likewise survived to transcend reality or whatever. One begins to sense a pattern.

Too soon!

And nothing's stopping him from saying "Not having grown up as an American, I'm not steeped in US history and don't feel I can really answer that. But in the time that I've been aware of US politics…".

It's sort of implicit that he means "recent political history