The design is based on Ralph McQuarrie's concept art for the redesigned Enterprise for the Star Trek movie. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5721…

It's Ralph McQuarrie's original concept art design for the new Enterprise in the movie that eventually became "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," right down to the asteroid drydock.

That was actually a case of the colonists re-claiming the mockery of that song and using it as an anthem of pride.

I enjoyed how fully developed those characters from that episode were. That made sense when I learned that they were supposed to be stars of their own series. I wish all one-off characters had as much personality and development as those.

That episode (er, three-episode arc) was a totally unnecessary but delightful bit of fan wankery.

And Hanks actually looks quite a bit like the TOS Cochrane, unlike Cromwell.

Really? I've always thought "Generations" was one of the best of the Trek films.

The merger of Movie Trek and TNG Trek Federation aesthetics in that film was magnificent.

"First Contact" was amazing, but it did sort of disrespect what the Borg represented, and also Picard's relationship to them (after he was borgified, and then de-borgified, he urged the Federation to try to come to an understanding with the Borg rather than fight them, which is the opposite reaction to the one he had…

They did that with "Home" (the movie where Jim Parsons is an alien and Rihanna is a human girl), too. There was what appeared to be a Pixar-style short before some other Dreamworks movie, and then a year later I started seeing trailers for the full film.

As I mentioned above: I never realized that "Peaches" was a real song. I only knew it as the parody "Farm Food" you mentioned here.

Honestly, there are so many 90's songs that I only ever know as Bill Nye parodies which I've slowly discovered over the years are real songs.

Sure it was, but it also succeeded way, way too hard. That's the thing about kid's entertainment: sometimes you've got to dumb it down just a wee bit to make it quality in terms of what level they're on.

"That was Tiny Toons (via They Might be Giants)"

That's good. Hudson's part was apparently originally meant to be something substantial, but it got cut and edited down to bare bones nothingness.

The fact that we like in a country where a president who's so gung ho on killing terrorists that he's gone overboard and killed a whole bunch of innocents along with the bad guys is accused of being sympathetic to these terrorists is just astounding when you stop to think about it.

There is a phenomenon in which certain people - most usually right-wingers - will accuse their enemies of doing things that their enemies are not guilty of but which they themselves are guilty of.

"there's an enormous difference between banning someone for organizing a Stormfronter get-together and banning someone for actively saying racist things"

Or those harassing Jews.

What's less hilarious and more horrifyingly disgusting is the claim that the GOP is the anti-slavery Republican party of the past in the age of "All Lives Matter." Using images of black bodies being brutalized in an attempt to lionize a political party that just this week tried to accuse black Americans fighting for…