I think you don’t necessarily need to stick to canon, but if you’re unnecessarily ignoring it - or worse, demonstrating contempt for it (hello, Fox’s Marvel movies) - you’re liable to create a backlash that may swamp the film.

If any individual other than Kevin Feige deserves a ton of credit for bringing the MCU to life, it’s Robert Downey, Jr. His willingness to stick with the character for so long across so many films is incredible. It would have been easy and completely understandable for him to not want to continue with the role as long…

That not even remotely what Ragjnar said. But pummel straw men if that’s what you came here to do.

No. Just no. The purpose of copyright law is spelled out very clearly in the US Constitution: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries [.]”

Copyright protection doesn’t stop if you don’t personally like the quality of the thing being protected. I, personally, think that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a boring and unoriginal film: should that mean I have the legal right to make my own?

An intellectually honest contrarian can work! Maybe it’s the lawyer in me (albeit one who no longer practices), but the most effective arguments are ones that come from having analyzed both sides.

I completely missed the glowing heels. Well spotted. Nothing says “shoot me” like a soldier wearing stuff that glows.

Oh I’d love another The Voyage Home. Honestly after the Search for Spock ripoff that was Into Darkness, it’d be a welcome (if extremely predictable) changeup.

All I can say is: “Thank you”. Now I know I am not alone.

For me, that says a lot. I wasn’t there for ‘66, but I was for ‘67 and ‘68. I was when Filmation animated it. I was when it was “Star Trek: Phase II”. I was when it went from being the hub of Paramount’s first attempt at setting itself up as a tv network and I…

I am with you on all counts. After being so immersed in Star Trek for 40 years, I can say with certainty that what is being sold as Trek now is most definitely not.

JJ doesn’t do original really well

Because without a Death Star knock-off, or a clone of Tattooine, we wouldn’t have know it was Star Wars?

Could someone explain to me why people needed to be reminded what Star Wars was? Had people forgotten? The prequels were hugely successful, and people were buying tickets for The Force Awakens months in advance despite having no clue what the plot was going to be. It’s not like the franchise was struggling. They could…

You want confusing? The Starfleet Battles tabletop game added additional designations to the class e.g. a Miranda Class starship would be CL NCC-#### CL denoting its status as a light crusier. They scaled it all they way up to DNs (dreadnaughts) and SDs (super dreadnaughts)

Runabouts are still in the “Shuttle” Category.
The Galileo was NCC-1701/7 so they are registered to the ship aboard which they are stationed.
I wish people who wrote this stuff if they are gonna do the technical stuff knew WHY it worked the way it does.

There’s a difference between an NX registry and an “NX class ship”. The only NX class was Enterprise, NX-01 and her sisters.

Just because Excelsior and Defiant had the NX prefixes in their registries it doesn’t make them NX class starships. It just makes them experimental or prototype ships. In fact, by Star Trek VI, Excelsior had been renumbered to reflect the fact it was an active duty ship and no longer an experiment. The Memory Alpha…

I would assume that any Star Trek writer constantly uses Memory Alpha as a canon research tool - even considering the obsessive nature of Star Trek fans, it’s one of the best fan-made wikis on the Internet.

That sounds like bad fanfiction that somehow became officially licensed.

ooo I wouldn't say thor 1 was Iron Man 2 territory, more like Thor 2 and Incredible Hulk