"By the time the game starts in 2013, the U.S. has finally flushed all opposition out of Afghanistan through the north"
So it's a fantasy game.

And Troi's hair turns GRAY. Wheels within wheels, guys.

Man, Julie Delpy. I was all ready for the heartwarming climax where Doohan appears out of nowhere, righteously tells the security guy off, gives you a personalized autograph, and then, I don't know, maybe gives you all the money in his wallet, because why not?

I got a more playful vibe than anything else. We all know Scotty is a great engineer, so I figure he only does the inflate-the-estimate thing when it's about something non-critical. If the warp core were about to explode, though, he'd give a proper estimate.

I've always been partial to "And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer… is no."

I'd like to hear the scuttlebutt on that, too. My only knowledge of Doohan as a person comes from the Trekkies documentary, where he came off as the sweetest old man on Earth.

So we've got Frakes as an irascible horndog and Sirtis as a game but cynical showbiz veteran who's seen it all.

I'd wish cancerAIDS on you, but in the 24 century it can be cured by just pointing a red pocket flashlight at your torso.

@Richelieu: "see: Outrageous Okona, The"

It's an even better name for an especially boozy fruit punch.

The puppies were used to calibrate the transporters.

Sajanas, I'm sure you're right. It's just that Tesla's such a brilliant, weird, compelling figure that it's fun to imagine a world where his bonkers ideas about death rays and wireless large-scale electrical transmission actually came to fruition.

Yep, Lemur, that was a film about the Manhattan Project called "Fat Man and Little Boy" (not to be confused with the television series "Jake and the Fat Man", which was just about this one dude Jake and this other fat dude who fought crime). If you dislike John Cusack, you're in luck with that movie! Because *SPOILER*…

I liked Barclay OK and thought Dwight Schultz did well with what they gave him, but he never struck me as an actual person that could exist. Maybe if they'd cast the part much younger it would have worked better, but as it was I cringed a lot watching a grown-ass man act like the most awkward thirteen-year-old on…

The Double Axe Handle! Does anyone know why that was always, ALWAYS the go-to hand-to-hand combat move on latter-day Star Trek? It got to the point where it seemed like the fight coordinator was just messing with us.

You mean the Dyson sphere or the immortality trick Scotty rigs up with the transporter? Or both?

Tesla seems like the closest anyone's ever come to being a comic book-style super-scientist. If he'd gotten enough funding, today we'd all be living either in an electrified techno-utopia or on the burnt cinders of what remains of the Earth.

Thank you, OP, for explaining both the purpose of all science fiction and the fundamental nature of the human mind.

So… about a C- then?

The films seem to go out of their way to cut Beverly out of scenes she should be in with Picard. Why wasn't she the one who confronted him in First Contact instead of Alfre Woodard? And I say this as a die-hard Woodardian.