There is money in the spinoff technologies.

Mission to Mars SPOILERS

It would have been interesting dramatic irony for them to be the instigators of the disaster and switch the roles of the Russian and Chinese stations.  If she ended up on the Russian station, that would have been the one to save the day.

There are no deaths at that happen at the end of the movie.

As far as we know, literally no human in the history of space exploration would have gone through the experience before.  The closest situation might have been something like Apollo 13, but those were extremely experienced astronauts in constant contact with Mission Control.

They don't, but that's okay.

There was that bet between Homer and Ned.  They made sure the lawn was well prepared.

Fortunately we were prepared for all these eventualities: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I saw the movies before the books (strangely it was the only movie series where I saw every single film in a first run theater, but that was in part because I got to see the first three for free, due to various circumstances: job, college event, and roommate's job).
When I went to read the first book I pictured…

I actually thought that the flashback Dumbledore in Chamber of Secrets was a bit closer to Gambon's.  Maybe he should have played it more in that style the whole way.

I thought it was Brian Epstein dying that was the catalyst for a band already growing apart.

So in preparation for next week here's a helpful episode of WTF: http://traffic.libsyn.com/w…

I've heard from a magician I know that the easiest people to trick with slight of hand are the most skeptical.

If it's something like Tatooine, then it's just like Earth, it's based on a full rotation of the planet on its axis.  If we're talking about a Federation standard that's a bit trickier.  I would imagine it's probably based on some average or mean of the founding planets of the Federation: Earth, Vulcan,…

Yes we do.  Characters in TNG, DS9, and VOY constantly refer to how long they've served on a particular assignment, occasionally Gregorian years are referred to, and when they do they refer specifically to years as ending at the turn of a thousand stardate units.  The basis for this was TNG's The Neutral Zone,…

The ship was destroyed less than a year after "Firstborn." In fact, at this point Alexander was about 7 years old, having been born in the third season of TNG (during the episode "Booby Trap" according to the episode "New Ground").

SPOILERSMirror episodes kind of were Ferengi episodes already, in that they kept on getting killed.  I think they ran out of Ferengi, so it kind of made sense to send some Ferengi in the next time they go.

I didn't have anything to say during the Sons and Daughters/Behind the Lines review, but I did binge on the arc this past weekend.  Alexander says he didn't see Worf for five years, but it was only 3 years or less.  His last TNG episode was in spring 1994, which would have been fall of 2370, while this episode takes…

I certainly didn't know it at the time and I thought it worked pretty well.  I thought it was pretty sad when I was a kid.

Quantum Leap's finale should actually fit into the second list as it was a season finale reconfigured into a series finale when it was cancelled, which might explain some of its perplexing nature, and the title card at the end.