Let's hope he has the 24th century version of iTunes Match or something, so he can just download them again.

It is. Enterprise, as the first post-9/11 Star Trek, in its S2 finale had 7 million people killed when (at that time to Earth) random aliens had a probe cut a swath of destruction through Florida, Cuba, and down into South America.

And also importantly for many people, there's going to be an update to 8.1 that brings back the Start menu for the desktop version, instead of the Windows key popping up the Start screen.

The ENT problem is even worse. Since they were often pressed for time/money, some of the effects shots were done 480p. For the BluRay release they just upscaled them instead of rerendering. Consequently, sometimes the effects shots look terrible.

Some might exist though, depending on when it got rewritten. If I remember the TNG:S2 extras correctly, they often shot and edited the full final script (sometimes modulo vfx shots), and then pared it down to runtime once they had a sense of what could be cut. Everything they shot is stored, so if they still have an…

Based on the existing TOS, TNG, and ENT Blu-Rays, we will at best get commentary on half a dozen episodes per 26 episode season. The only episode that got an extended cut to date was "Measure of a Man", and I think that's only because they recovered a VHS copy of the original full cut to use as a base for the edits…

Sure. Paul McCartney used it as a benchmark. He says he aimed to make albums that were as good as Pet Sounds. So, presumably he agreed. Brian Wilson also admired Revolver and wanted to make albums as good as it. It was a friendly rivalry that made both groups work hard to create great music.

But it was written by André Bormanis (who should've known better, given that he started out as a science adviser on TNG). I don't know if Braga was even involved on a level beyond not shooting it down. He did call it "one of the singularly most embarrassing episodes of Star Trek I've ever been involved with."

I was just watching the ENT:S3 extras last night, and the standalones were written originally as a hedge in case the Xindi arc didn't pan out. Once they were sure the arc was going to work they tweaked them around the edges to make them fit into the delphic expanse idea. But god, those standalones were mostly awful,…

Enterprise mostly did the one or two word titles ("Broken Bow", "Carbon Creek", "Oasis", "Anomaly") with the occasional short phrase ("Two Days and Two Nights", "In a Mirror, Darkly", "These Are the Voyages"). Only managed one Latin title ("Vox Sola"). Skimming them on Memory Alpha, it feels like they were…

That's some pro league fan wank right there. And I think I'm saying that admiringly.

He's one of the swiss army knives of Star Trek. There are 5 guys who played 7 or more characters across the various series. Counts from Memory Alpha: Vaughn Amstrong (13), Jeffery Combs (9), Randy Oglesby (7), Thomas Kopache (7), and J.G. Hertzler ("many", which isn't that helpful; Not sure why they couldn't count for…

Yes, you can be allergic. Probably in multiple ways. My wife gets a migraine if she's even near an open vessel of an alcoholic beverage. It seems to have something to do with the evaporating alcohol and her sinuses. If I drink a normal beer, like in the 4-6% range, I can sit on the other side of the couch (for the…

The scratch track they developed it to was U2's "Beautiful Day". Not a U2 fan at all, but that'd still be a step up. I understand why it was fiscally infeasible though. I still prefer a classical piece regardless.

To be fair to the original credits, if you mute the damn song, the credit sequence is fine. It's just totally ruined by that Diane Warren piece of fetid dogshit. If they just let Chattaway or McCarthy write an orchestral theme like the other shows got (or even picked/wrote a non-horrible pop song, I guess), they'd be…

I watched the Borg episode last night with commentary by Billingsly and his wife (who plays one of the scientists who get Borg'd). It's much more pleasant with them bantering with each other over it. Billingsly also acknowledges that the theme song is terrible (and keeps talking over it; for some reason some…

Unfortunately, it's a very bad CGI job of a Gorn. But I'll overlook that for the Tholian Web reference and vastly improved theme song.

Huh. That's interesting. Boz Burrell couldn't play bass either (he did play rhythm guitar), but Fripp gave him a Jazz Bass that was laying around the studio and taught him how to play the existing Crimson catalog note by note. I wonder why he was more worth the effort.

King Crimson would also be rough. Just in the "classic" (1969-1974) lineups there were a total of 4 bassist/singers (plus maybe count Jon Anderson of Yes, who they had to borrow when one of the bassist/singers quit before they finished an album (Lizard)), a violinist/violist/melotronist, at least 5 drummers (at one…

He's expanding it and turning it into a book too. He took a leave of absence a while back to go interview a bunch of prog musicians. I'm at least cautiously optimistically looking forward to it.