“My fondest wish is that all this is leading to the decanonization of that garbage sequel trilogy.”

“You should be yelling at Abrams, who screwed over Star Trek and then Star Wars. Never let him near these franchises again.”

Can't believe no one else mentioned the BMW CS! Maybe there's a parallel universe out there where modern BMW's look like that instead of buck toothed monsters...

Can’t believe you’re the only one posting this! Such an amazing vehicle.

Maybe they could mix Eckstein’s and Dawson’s voice together or something? So many questions indeed, but also so many possibilities!!

Just like Gears Of War, the Halo series is a cool concept at heart, but both slowly but surely buckled under the weight of their own lore, which, as this article points out, doesn’t even show up in the games.

“They’re unfertilized eggs. There’s about as much life force in them as there are in the eggs at your supermarket.”

Did I miss it, or was the plan to fly to another sector without using the hyperdrive? Wouldn't that take hundreds of years? I hope I missed a line that explains that because otherwise that really doesn't make any dang sense.

I’m well aware they had terrifiying *episodes*, but on the whole, like I said, TOS through VOY were, to paraphrase myself here from another reply, utopian positive sci fi *shows* that used metaphors to tell interesting stories about calm, meticulous professionals working for a benevolent organization.

Sure, but I’m obviously talking about the general situation. The Federation in TOS and TNG (and indeed in DS9 and VOY) wasn’t in shambles, there wasn’t despair left and right, etc. Star Trek of yore was utopian positive sci fi that used metaphors to tell interesting stories about calm, meticulous professionals working…

Sure, but like I said, TOS and TNG aired during the actual Cold War, they offered hope during dark and bleak times. They could have made bleak and terrifying sci fi, but they went for optimism. So odd that the new powers that be don't seem to realize that it's that very optimism that drew people to Star Trek to begin…

I’m beating a dead horse at this point, but what a shame that everything on this show is so bleak and depressing. They travel 930 years in the future, and guess what, everyone is mean and selfish.

I drive a 9-5 NG. It’s amazing. And believe it or not my uncle has a 9-4X. What I wouldn't give for that Sportcombi though.

Kind of a lot, considering where I live it used to get cold in winters, with at least a few snow days, and now winters are just rainy. The summers used to be average, and now there’s a few scorching heat waves every year. Oh and the leaves take forever to fall off the trees, so now fall starts in November instead of…

Indeed.

“Pterodactyl or Pteranodon? The former is a Late Jurassic pterodactyloid about the size of a gull. The latter is a giant Late Cretaceous pterodactyloid larger than any living bird.”

Ditto

Same in the Virginia Beach area.

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, and 9/11 is a big part of it. It got a lot of praise, but I think it's one of the worst books I ever read - I genuinely hated it. It's also a movie, by the way, starring (among others) Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks.

“. It has all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop. "