In "Space Seed," Khan just called himself "Khan," and they assumed he was just some guy from the past (except for the historian, who recognized him on sight). It wasn't until later that Spock did some research and realized "Khan" was actually "Khan Noonian Singh," and the full name jogged their memories enough to…

It actually surprised me a little when Pike said stopping the volcano itself was a PD violation. That's a very Next-Generation view of it. TOS had a much more lax view of the Prime Directive. Landing parties would just walk up to natives and just be vague about where they came from, even establishing diplomatic…

It's never been said in so many words on-screen, but the behind-the-scenes consensus from the writers who thought it up was that Pon Farr wasn't a prerequisite to Vulcan baby-making. Every seven years they had to have crazy furniture-breaking Vulcan sex, but that didn't meant they couldn't the rest of the time if they…

The little fighter/shuttle things were kind of like tiny Birds of Prey. The clearest picture I've seen is of some toys that are coming out.

I remember there was something about them not being able to communicate with Starfleet, but I can't remember if that was because their equipment or because the Admiral was jamming them or because he had blackballed the Enterprise so no one in Starfleet would accept their messages since they'd "gone rogue."

@avclub-e56f3c7f583392a5b6796622b4e04cd8:disqus I figured it was just another "A lot can happen in thirty years of alternate history" moment. Maybe the Klingons also freaked out about the future Romulan super-ships and gunned up the reactors on Praxis so it was destroyed much sooner (though apparently less horribly.…

I picked up on that after the movie. I would've probably enjoyed the gag a lot more when I was watching it if I wasn't still surly about the TWoK quotes. That's how you do a reference; so sly, you aren't even sure if it's intentional.

What's our first example of Delenn formally courting Sheridan in the Minbari fashion that we know of? When she watches him sleep in Season 3? That's not too far off, this could be part of that process. Some sort of traditional "meet the parents" type deal, where if you're starting to date someone, you have to have a…

Star Trek was never really one for recurring individual antagonists. That changed as time went on with the spin-offs, but in the original series, there were just two, and that's counting Khan. And the other one was Harry Freaking Mudd.

The weirdest part about there being no ships near Earth was that, at the beginning of the movie, there were, what, a dozen captains and first officers at the meeting whose ships would, probably, have still been around Earth. It had only been a day or two.

Adding to the fact that it wasn't an everyday Minbari meal was Lennier's obvious exhaustion and barely-restrained terror that this idiot savage was going to screw something up and he'd have to do the whole process over again from the start.

Enjoy it, because I'm pretty sure that's the last of Babylon 5's future-space-urinal scenes. Was Ally McBeal on yet when this aired? Were they trying to ape that show with having scenes of Sinclair/Sheridan and Garibaldi talking about work while they went to the bathroom?

I was pulling for Garth months ago. If it had to be an established character (and, with someone that obscure, it's kind of pointless), the story would've been a much better fit with him. Starfleet officer becomes super-powered, disillusioned, and a bit touched in the head. A war-mongering admiral decides to use his…

I figured Kirk's shields were already down. The only reason the Admiral couldn't beam up Khan like he wanted was that he didn't know where he was.

I recognize that that was the aim, but having it be a series direct quotes in slightly different contexts just seems condescending at best and mastubatory at worst. It distracted from that part of the arc in the film. I wasn't thinking, "Oh, now Spock is realizing the depth of 'this simple feeling' that joins him and…

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Kevin is a moron but has enough money to open a bar even though he's terrible with numbers?

Well, for one thing, Jim owns what, a fifth of the company? A sixth? They never said he sold his shares back to Athlead that he dropped ten grand on when he stopped going over there day-to-day.

Meredith was going for a Ph.D. Not sure if they were clear if she got it.

For Christ's sake, you do realize that this "alternate timeline" business is, basically, a literary device, don't you? Re-telling the story verbatim isn't what you'd want anyway. Doing an interesting variation on it, brought up-to-date, is exactly what they should be doing.