But we're not talking about a genuine, in-the-narrative, mystery here — or at least shouldn't be — any more than it's "mysterious" why the bridge on Kirk's Enterprise had mechanical and analog gauges.

And we only see the entertainingly elaborate malfunctions that have stories around them. They skip the stuff like "Ensign Ng's fantasy of playing for the 1927 Yankees ended tragically when he stopped the program and half his head vanished along with his hat."

Classic coral.

That's why I started screening my calls. But I still get coral trying to sell me bogus Microsoft service plans.

So, in order to fight trolls, you have to think like a troll?

I always thought that was "One chants out, between two worlds"

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…

The Next Generation Technical Manual established that the holodecks utilized a mixture of force field/tractor beam technology and actual replicated matter for constructs that needed to physically interact with the user, and that once a replicated construct was no longer needed, it was disintegrated. I'm not sure it…

Episode 10: Why won't this damn vending machine give me my pack of Funyuns?!

That's just what they want you to think…

Depends on how his career goes from here.
Can't be ruled out…

Great-grandson.

Now they'll all be asking who the Jackson Whites are…

Thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot more sense. 1960 seemed a little early for comic books to be sporting pop culture in-jokes.

You haven't yet clashed with "The Stride Mother"?

I wasn't sure at first who was referencing whom, but the Peanuts Wiki indicates that Schultz started doing "Charlie Brown gets kite stuck in tree" gags back in 1956, so I guess the villain was indeed an homage.

But does he have turf wars with Harvey Keitel?

I caught my last super-foe by infiltrating one of his focus groups.

But after Felix crashes and burns at the table, the amusing implication is that the CIA, in contrast with MI-6, would commit open-endedly to a poker game. Only the ground rules of the tournament kept Felix from doing so himself, so Bond makes a handy proxy.

Well, they seem to depict it as being steered by a simple joystick, and he doesn't drive it all that far or intricately, so I'd put that fairly low on the the transgression list.