My favorite of the several covers on Emancipation is "I Can't Make You Love Me" - it holds up well by comparison to the Bonnie Raitt version.

Woody Allen left United Artists, not the other way around. He and his management left for Orion, the studio formed by a group of former UA executives, after Stardust Memories was released. See Steven Bach's book Final Cut about the making of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate and the unmaking of UA.

You mean Spock wasn't?

It's the acting too, not just the lighting style or the editing style or the production design. For example, the original had both Aykroyd and Murray each delivering lines laconically, to great comic effect (most of Murray's lines, and of course Aykroyd's delivery of "It's the Stay-Puft marshmallow man"). Good luck…

Actually (according to David Gerrold in The World of Star Trek, 1973) it was the Pueblo incident of January 1968 that inspired the episode, although the credited writer, D.C. Fontana, was unhappy with changes to her script and soon left the series, where she'd been story editor. (Roddenberry had already left by this…

Small clarification: "Composer Alexander Courage, who created the original music for Star Trek" is accurate in that he wrote all the music for the two pilot episodes, "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before," as well as the famous opening-title music (with the fanfare reused at the start of Wrath of Khan and each …

The 1966 Philip K. Dick novel Now Wait for Last Year has both parallel universes AND time travel, both induced by the drug JJ-180, with the effect depending on the individual user (past, future, or parallel present). It's one of his best. The plot condensation at Wikipedia is accurate, for the most part.

With a few exceptions, Kirk was drawn to girls (or "girls" in some cases) who had names that ended with "a": Sylvia, Marlena, Kelinda (season 2); Miranda, Odona, Deela, Rayna (season 3). Is this meaningful?

The Kirk who gave the "Risk is our business!" speech (in "Return to Tomorrow") was NOT a boring guy.

Phrased as "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?", it's from The Wrath of Khan, which well predates In Living Color. Spoken by McCoy.

The final-season (1998-99) stories involving guest stars were often good, but the show suffered greatly from the departure of Pembleton (Andre Braugher had given two full years' notice) and the arrival of Shepherd and the younger Giardello. Maybe Shepherd could have worked if she'd been played by someone who could…

Yes, that was the second season (early 1994); the first season (spring '93) had nine. One of the four was the Robin Williams episode, which got sufficient acclaim that NBC finally gave Homicide a full-season order for 1994-95.

In that case, sir, best to get the book's title right: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.

Yes, it's very good, with lots of behind-the-scenes footage and decent narration; "Anatomy of a Homicide: Life on the Street" is the title.

Nonetheless, there is a photo of Heinlein giving a Vulcan salute while donating blood in the 1970s: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4…

There's also a new, full-cast, audio version of Ellison's script.

Roddenberry repurposed the basic idea, but with an android (instead of Gary Seven, who was human, not alien), in the TV movie/failed pilot The Questor Tapes in the early 1970s. Starring Robert Foxworth as the proto-Data, with Mike Farrell as his human partner.

Kindly recall that first-season episodes also gave us "one to the fourth power" sound amplification, as well as the idea that the ship's engines are required to maintain an orbit around the star base's planet that doesn't immediately decay (both in "Court Martial"), the dual-universe nonsense in "The Alternative…

Speaking as someone who goes way back with Star Trek (i.e., watched most of the third season of the original run on NBC as a kid), you would find even the 1973-74 animated series to be more nutritious and less insulting than nearly any episode of either Voyager or Enterprise (excuse me: "Star Trek: Enterprise" as it…

Those nutballs Golan and Globus actually hired Mailer to direct as well as adapt his novel for the screen. How could the result not have been funny? Thank god they cast Lawrence Tierney in it - no one else could deliver lines about wanting to "deep-six the heads" quite as well.