"'Danger: Borg nanoprobes.' Well, I don't need a phaser, because I'm Kathryn Janewa—!"

I imagine that Changelings can model much better than they can invent. If they try to make an original creature, you get the clay look, but if they're duplicating something they've studied exactly with whatever weird Changeling senses they have, they're much more successful. It's not like any time a Changeling has…

There was a profoundly weird moment in one of the last Shatnerverse novels where the Reeves-Stevenses mention that there's going to have to be a ton of engineering infrastructure that produced Shinzon's ship and super-cloak and death ray, and Starfleet has to check it out… and then it ducks off into a blind alley like…

@Chico_McDirk:disqus They appear one time in the novelverse, in a somewhat different take than the ST-Online version.

I don't think it's been said by anyone officially, but since the warp charts don't really correspond to travel times on-screen, it's generally accepted fanon that ships can pick up a kind of tailwind that gets them places faster than the warp factor's official speed. It varies whether they're subspace "roads" worn…

@avclub-7d26c14b4a096a0afc48154974c4b7d6:disqus I cannot tell a lie. I stole it from The Incomparable.

They're shown to have survived and been arrested in the TV cut.

He probably picks up radio waves, too. He might get some doppler shifting depending on how fast he's going, but he can probably find one station to focus in on.

I remember watching and seeing Superman pause after kissing Lois, the devastated city behind him, and thinking, "Oh, he's hearing all the people crying for help in the rubble, and he's going to start digging people out in an inspiring montage , working alongside the real-life superheroes, our emergency services…

My Dad had one of the later ones, where the handwriting recognition was actually pretty good. Better than those fucking Palm Pilots years later where you had to write each letter in a tiny little square. What measure of horseshit was that? Who thought that was a good idea?

You can use a text password, but that's even more of a pain in the ass in your case, since it gives you a full keyboard and not just a number pad. And, of course, the fingerprint doo-dad on the new one.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I've heard the same thing. Wiki says that's more-or-less the case. It looks like Commodore was retired as a rank in 1899, reinstated during World War II (to help prevent an oversupply of Admirals once the war ended) before being retired again (while still being used as…

Who knows how the Orb of Time really works? Maybe it just showed Kira what she expected to see. Or the Prophets are also dicks.

@Prankster36:disqus That's my take on it. The Reavers have a psychotic hatred for anyone that isn't a Reaver, but they're pretty cool with other Reavers. I figure that was the deal with the guy from Bushwacked. They left him alive because they could tell he had the same reaction to their air that they did (come to…

The best prediction I heard was from John Siracusa. The new movies can certainly be worse than the PT, but they can't feel worse.

@avclub-c3be6e8cf75a921162b52b8937e66da9:disqus Sure it can. Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace.

It was scrapped after Return of the Jedi, where it was used in a pointless deleted scene (the hangar deck scene where Han loans her back to Lando used a painting). Not to worry, though. Some people are building a full-sized version as a tourist attraction. Inside and out, too, not like the mockup in the movies.
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Darker lighting is more complex (you have to have everything adjusted so everything looks even while still highlighting important stuff like the characters), so it takes more time to set up than just bathing the entire set in light. Whenever a TV show gets a lot of extra money, one of the first thing they tend to do…

@avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus @avclub-74f7a71ee2b66500bff752ae84ce358d:disqus There was a news story about one of the pilots who was scrambled on September 11th. There was so little warning that there was no time to put missiles or even bullets on the plane. If she'd gotten there in time, her orders…

I heard about it in homeroom in the morning announcements urging us to keep calm and keep going as normal. The Assistant Principle said something like "bombing" or "attack," so I assumed it was a carbomb like the 1993 attack. The next class was a sort of business skills thing, so we kept sneaking looks at the news on…