Neither did the guy waiting on the pier in New York for his car to be delivered…

I've always found it interesting that Catholicism holds that doctrine about the Bible generally, and yet believes in transubstantiation, while the Pentecostals and such profess biblical literalism while rejecting transubstantiation.

+1 for co-mingling politics and religion.

I like to imagine Björk lounging around the house on a Sunday afternoon, binging Netflix and munching on Björksnäs.

I bought my own five years later, and they're still here.

As seen on the tomb walls of the Swedish Pharaohs.

Well, entertaining mess of a movie that it was, it couldn't exactly be brought down by his acting. And I found something kind of endearing about his little monologue about "…the Imperial Hotel… in Tokyo".

I don't think she limits her therapy to people who eat their own shit. As she said, she doesn't judge.

I had a Sunday school teacher named Mrs. Okomoto who was similarly Caucasian.

q.v. the Star Wars prequels.

Keanu Reeves, who seems to have found his true calling in the John Wick series.

OOH! Who will we all have flings with?

The very same. Though he famously lost their support in '44 when he dropped Wallace as his running mate.

They way I heard it they simply didn't bother raising the poorest neighborhoods — Just sold the air rights to developers and built right over them, sealing the indigents under the new construction. And that's where the CHUDs came from…

1) TOS was presciently extrapolating 21st century computer trends. The manufacturers of photon torpedoes paid for preferential use, so unless Kirk overrode the computer, they were the default weapon. By TNG, Starfleet was sick of the whole thing and reprogrammed all ships' computers to do as they were told.

It was more of a guideline than a rule.

Then what are you doing here? ;)

The joke was an amusing approach to "lampshading" the difference, but I almost think it would have been better to ignore it completely. I often compare these things to the way 20th century war movies effectively "pantomimed" aerial bombing — the fighter-bombers would swoop in, and there would be explosions, and the…

The Next Generation Technical Manual tried to address the "Warp 10" issue (both for fans and future writers) and get around the fairly arbitrary warp number references of TOS, by saying that the old numbers were archaic vocabulary, and that in the Next Generation era warp speeds were measured on a closed-ended scale.…

At least pseudo-scientific over-explanation is arguably in keeping with Star Trek's theme. In contrast, explaining mystical/religious elements of your plot with pseudo-science, in a property that's framed as Space Opera rather than pretending to "hard science", in a prequel no less, is just fan-wankery.