It's not just this movie that has Trek ships in positive-pressure environments. They've smashed through Earth's atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour, sunk down into gas giants, kissed the surface of suns, taken photon torpedo hits that are as powerful as nuclear bombs… The pressure of a hundred meters of water…

Turns out the desk models were built be a replica prop/sci-fi memorabilia company and they put up a gallery of all the models on their site.

Gotta love Luthor's shock at Batman bursting into his bedroom in the middle of the night and Harley as his chauffeur  saying "Swell, Mr. L!". Those are just two of my favourite little moments.

"I knew you were crazy. I didn't think you were stupid."

Something I like to see explored is the idea that Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent may well do more good for the world than Batman and Superman can accomplish. Batman can beat up a bankrobber, but Bruce Wayne can fund an orphanage and prevent a thousand disadvantaged kids from growing up to be bank robbers. Superman may…

Isn't that the job of a Doctor, though? A surgeon cuts someone open and leaves a scar, too, but you aren't going to be better off without him doing it. It's all about knowing how to hurt the least and help the most.

Given that Moffat went to the trouble to mention the Valeyard, my guess is that that's part of the reason for bumping 11 up to 12. Add to the fact that the Doctor's final end on Trenzalore seems to be imminent (the dead TARDIS still had the broken window from when the present-day TARDIS crashed at the beginning of the…

He thought it was necessary, but he obviously wasn't sanguine about it, given how much he vacillated between killing Rassilon or the Master versus letting Earth get smashed into pieces and letting the worst war in history come pouring out of the wound.

It's been, like, thirteen hundred years for him. I don't remember the face of the girl I ordered lunch from an hour ago, and I certainly wouldn't if I saw her again in thirty years and she was a different species.

I remember back when they were doing podcast commentaries with the episodes, for "The Girl in the Fireplace" after Rennette's line "Doctor who? It's more than just a secret, isn't it?" Moffat was positively giggly that he'd added something to the mythos of the show. While he'd never had a name, that was the first…

Wasn't there also an episode where Picard told Data that mixing and matching old ideas to make new ones was how creativity worked in the first place when he was talking about his music or paintings? Was that one of those?

@avclub-7485b644403627612cc11d3e80ffa907:disqus Exactly. It's all immediate, spur of the moment decision-making after he kills the Admiral. You'd expect the most ruthless, dangerous adversary in Star Trek history to have a long-term, medium-term, or even short-term plan.

We didn't see him trying the door. Maybe it had been locked and unlocked itself for the occasion, while the other one was left unlocked by the repair crews. Sort of like that bit in Star Wars where Luke almost doesn't buy R2-D2. The galaxy really would've gotten in the shorts if that red droid hadn't blown a gasket.

I think we aren't done with Trenzalore just yet. At first, I thought it would just be left to be the eventual, never-to-happen series finale, and the only way it would come up again is if someone wanted a different way to kill off the Doctor for real.

I think the name being in the history book (which, logically, was written by the Doctor) was more of a foreshadowing of John Hurt, the Doctor Unworthy of the Name. Why wouldn't he just be called "The Doctor" instead of apparently "Glagblax Thortonray, Elsewhen Known As The Doctor" or something like that throughout the…

I remember a bit from "Caprica" when a character was confronted by something inexplicable that threatened their grasp on power.

Yes. And at least it was done with some class. Remember the end of "The Stolen Earth"? Mile-high metal letters smashing into the screen one word at a time with a resounding woosh.

I wouldn't say they remembered it, but they were imprinted by it. The other Claras all grew up, lived, and died their own lives, but they were guided by the form of the original Clara, so they all ended up with commonalities.

Carol wouldn't need a tracking device. The admiral could see her on the viewscreen. The transporter can target the human female in the center of the bridge a lot more easily than it can target the human male "in engineering" (especially since Khan was actually in sickbay).

Did Marcus just hire himself some out-of-work Stormtroopers? I ask because I'd like to think that Star Fleet personnel are, on the whole, more ethical than Stormtroopers.