I seem to remember this coming up before (and I know I'm going to get some details wrong), but TNG, DS9, and VOY are not particularly amenable to HD upgrading like TOS was. TOS was done completely on film (including effects and editing) and then telecined. ENT was (mostly) recorded with HD video cameras. The shows in…

Decker and Ilia flat out are dry runs for Riker and Troi. Both TMP and some early episodes of TNG are based on scripts for an aborted ST series called Star Trek: Phase II. TMP is based on the pilot. "The Child" (ugh) was based on another script. Lots of ideas from Phase II were in seasons 1 and 2 of TNG.

I'm not at all up to date on their newer stuff, so grain of salt and all, but I wholeheartedly second starting with "Haus Der Luge". Great album.

But that's not grammar nor syntax. It's lexical semantics. So, it's off your beat. Go back to sleep.

AAC is not any more proprietary than MP3. It's MPEG4 Audio, hence the extension of ".m4a" if you look at the files in your iTunes library. It's supposed to be the successor to MP3 with a number of improvements (more channels, broader frequency range, better compression). There's some patented aspects of the format,…

Sure there were internets to geek out on afterwards back then. It's just that it was Usenet instead of Web forums. And Trek had plenty of Usenet newsgroups, most famously "alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die."

I think the NX convention is supposed to indicate that it's an experimental ship or prototype. The USS Excelsior in ST:III was NX-2000, and changed to NCC-2000.

They phasered rocks to keep warm in a few TOS episodes too. In A Private Little War, McCoy does it to keep Mugato-bitten Kirk warm (accidentally violating the Prime Directive in the process). Sulu also does phasers some rocks on a freezing planet in The Enemy Within.

They also wore space suits (or at least environmental suits) in The Naked Time. One of landing party takes his glove off and reaches into his hood to scratch his nose and gets the stuff on his hand that causes SPACE MADNESS.

I'm pretty sure TNG, DS9, and VOY were all done on video. They were all at least edited and had special effects done on video. The HD versions of TOS were possible because the show was done on film, so they could scan in the original film, do all the color corrections, effects, etc. and get a nice HD transfer. The…

But the important part is that they still got paid for the whole tour, so everyone's happy.

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I think they canceled it because they're owned by AOL, who is determined to kill anything good that they own.

After TVSquad canceled his TNG column, Wil Wheaton turned his reviews of the early TNG episodes into a book (Memories of the Future part I (which covers the first half of S1), with part II theoretically in the works (covering the second half of S1)) and a podcast (Memories of the Futurecast). The book expands and…

I have an HTC Magic (aka MyTouch 3G, but blech), but just the normal black one, not the Fender themed one. It's a smidge thicker than the iPhone. It has a 500MHz ARM processor vs the iPhone's 600Mhz. They both have a 320x480 screen, but the iPhone's is slightly physically bigger. They both have 256MB of RAM. The new…

My wife and I agreed to get married and shook on it. I don't even remember which of us brought it up. One of us was like "We're going to get married eventually. Let's pick a date." So we did. No engagement ring. She talked me into doing wedding rings, but they're simple and not too expensive. But we are both…

Star Trek was on 6pm M-F (and I think maybe at 7pm as well for a while) on a local UHF station (later the Fox affiliate) in Columbus, OH in the late 80s and early 90s, and I definitely saw Assignment Earth many times. The only episode I had never seen until recently was The Cloud Minders, which leads me to wonder if…

Actually, no, he didn't say it. A careful reanalysis was done last year, and the "a" just plain isn't there. A couple of years ago, there was a story about some Australian researchers who claimed it was there, but they were using a heavily compressed copy and found static that wasn't in the original.

The "The Man Who Sold the World" thing is particularly inexcusable, because at the end of the damn song Kurt Cobain said "That was a David Bowie song".

I don't think you can so much call it hacking when Amazon uses Amazon's content revocation API on a Kindle to revoke the rights to a book that they found they didn't have the rights to themselves, per the the fine print of the terms of service agreement that you probably didn't read. Even if it does suck and the book…