I've got to second Jim's comments - Thanks Zack!

when exactly did replicators come around? My understanding was that it was sometime between TOS and TNG, which is why the crew had to eat those multi-colored food cubes in TOS. Maybe it wasn't until after TUC.

and the weird floating pool table in the bar at Paradise City was cool, too. But I've always wondered how you would play it without splashing the water with your hand, thereby impacting the balls in the water.

That REALLY pissed me off when I first saw that. brother or not, Spock should've shot him. He could've tried to shoot him non-lethally, but it's his obligation to shoot as a starfleet officer. That scene simply doesn't work - it's poor screenwriting, plain and simple.

OK, then while we're on the subject, what would you call "Star Trek" - would you go with "11", "XI", "Star Trek", "The Abrams Star Trek"…

Oh, how we begged my parents for a marshmallow maker after that! They actually came out with a marshmallow dispenser that looked like Spocks to tie-in with the movie, but my parents wouldn't buy it for us. In retrospect it was probably like $30 for a cheap plastic tube that holds like 5 marshmallows but still… it was…

Until 11, TFF and TUC were the only star trek movies I had seen in the theaters - I was too young to have watched the earlier ones in the theatres and as a teenager I was "too cool" to be into star trek (don't be mistaken, I was by no means cool- I was just trying not to be too nerdy). my reactions to them couldn't…

Didn't Meyer want to name II "The Undiscovered Country" at some point, but he got shot down by the studio? (possible that I'm imagining that).

I didn't notice that they were Co-ed, but that's a neat detail. I like the sea-faring details that Meyers adds. and to be fair, the old-school steering wheel in ten-forward from V was a nice touch as well)

Tall - have you seen the Directors Cut of TMP? they actually cut about 16 minutes out of it, and it's much better)

a quick google search suggests not.

Once you've seen the enterprise get beat to hell and back as many times as we had dating back to TOS, it's hard to make a battle scene seem really threatening (for example, the action in Nemesis, which featured much more firepower but much less drama). But I can clearly remember thinking "Oh shit - they're really…

Maltz FTW!

I agree - I really liked Saavik (mostly the Kirstie Alley version), and I think it would've really increased the drama to have her betray Starfleet. (and it makes sense that she might have contact with the Romulans given her half-romulan heritage).

I realized the context for the screw you, but it's still a bit borderline given the circumstances. Most of the regular posters here are probably nerdy enough to know that Checkov wasn't in TAS. But if someone read it without knowing that it might come off wrong.

I borrowed it from my brother on Blu-ray(who's a Star Trek completist and claimed that it's "not really that bad"), and it actually does get worse when you watch it on blu-ray (in addition to simply getting worse with the natural progression of time, like the aged Durian fruit from this week's AV taste test).…

it just goes to show - ghillie suits make anything better.

that was impressive, but clearly edited together at a couple spots. I still prefer the honda commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I've got a similar experience with Millenium - I spent the summer of '99 working the closing shift at a gas station, and most if not all of these were on permanent repeat on the muzak to 40 channel at the time. But the one that really, really stuck in my head was millenium - takes me right back to mopping the floor…

I think the technology is already there - what you do is get sit a trained monkey in front of a soundboard with the following three clips: