Taking inspiration from Krypton?

"This show is about what happens in the future, for that is where we all must live—in the future."

Pope Francis: Say, did you know somebody translated all the TOS episodes into Latin? We should really put those on our site with a "nihil obstat."

Did they ever explain the "minimalist to the point of representational" (as one reviewer put it) set design of TOS?

I want to know how all the characters lost their virginity. Maybe make it an anthology book.

"But the new, purely phonetic spellings fail to honor ancient etymological linkages! Our younglings will grow up ignorant! Fie on this 'Klingonics' !"

"retroflex" just means you curl your tongue back, as if you were trying to imitate Apu's accent.

In real life, a "Klingon" script was introduced for some of the movies, but the designs were arbitrary—it was just supposed to look pretty, not to mean anything—and bore no relation to the spoken language as it was developed. Since Klingon is supposed to sound "alien" (but not really, since human actors have to speak…

Please, please let this be published somewhere

…and so, in conclusion, that's why you mustn't pick at it.

Next thing you know, they'll find a way to monetize Batman.

Q did it.

There was a comic-book tie-in which explained how he got it. I didn't read it, so I don't know what the explanation was. I assume it's a mark of shame for masturbation, like the white glove in "Lords of Discipline."

So the key to peace in Northern Ireland is to…convince the Irish not to breed like rabbits? (Fortunately, I think Irish unification has already happened according a throwaway line by Data in Next Generation.)

A late 1980s comic explained that there are different Klingon races, just as there are with humans. That was a reasonable explanation as well.

I assumed that clones were used in two armies, fighting each other.

They should have made an episode where the Star Trek gang has to go back in time and prevent the rise of smartphones. Hmm, that could explain why they don't walk through those gleaming white corridors chatting on their communicators…

Oh well, we'll always have Budapest.

What about Kirk's hair and Scotty's cellulite? Do they serve any purpose?

Maybe we should assume that, in a clunky metaphor aimed at real-world carbon emissions, the Star Trek universe was destroyed shortly after Voyager, and all its fictional inhabitants were devoured by Lovecraftean monstrosities entering through the warp-rifts.