I'm sure you would sleep very soundly on a comfy prison mattress.

I look forward to the spinoff, "Oh, That Doug!"

But the America Woks firing was illegal! Go back to work, internet!

Was there ever a practical model of the Enterprise E, or was it always digital?

Just to clarify, i wasn't making "an argument for why peace is impossible and we just shouldn't try," I was just being skeptical that a solution was around the corner, given the long history of conflict. If somebody in say, 1680, had said "I think this peace deal they're working on is finally going to sort out this…

I'm not sure I understand what this has to do with how shitty the effects were in Star Trek V.

Yeah, I think Enterprise D is the worst.

That seemed weird to me, too. In the HoC world it didn't look like there's a thing called "Jordan."

Wow, you're sure reading a lot into a short sentence.

People have been fighting over that patch of real estate since the Bronze Age.

Eisenhower and Grant and Taylor never held elective office either, but they were victorious generals, which is a different sort of thing.

I would bet the next season spends some time on developing a GOP nominee. I thought it was weird that they spent zero time on it this season, though.

Senators have at least been elected to something before, and being a senator has been a stepping stone to a bunch of VPs—Nixon, Johnson, Gore, Truman, etc. Solicitor General is an appointed position. The fact that they are taking seriously somebody who's never run for anything is kind of a fantasy. It would be more…

"Ok, so it's decided," President Underwood said. "We'll use the new faster than light drive, and we'll move all the Palestineans to the planet Seti Alpha V, and all the Israelis will move to Seti Alpha VI, and the problem is solved. Thank you, gentlemen, that will be all."

"C'mon, President Petrov, let's go smoke some of these smooth, smooth Laramie Hi-Tars!"
(holds up pack)
"Tank you, Mee-ster Prez-hee-dent. We, too, enjoy the smoov, smoov taste of Laramies in Mother Russia."

I don't think the new effects house would have done any better if, on top of all their other problems, they'd had to build an Enterprise and a Klingon ship from scratch.

I remember that.

I can imagine a pair of Disney archivists, after the acquisition of Lucasfilms, going through a box after box of EU materials, trying to decide what was canon and what wasn't. If this was a film, they'd be played by Paul Giammati and Daniel Pudi.

Remember, when you're arguing with your friends about whether the Enterprise could defeat the Empire forces from Star Wars, point out the scene in Generations where Federation technology enables you to blow up a sun with a missile the size of a surfboard, that you could fit in the Millenium Falcon's rec-room, and…

You know, I think the dumbest moment in any Star Trek movie is the jumping the dune buggy into the dune buggy shuttle scene in Nemesis.