Because that's how the NCC is painted onto the saucer of the Enterprise.

The most recent of these comics is from 1974. They've changed a lot in 38 years.

Has the Dean been working out? He's looking quite beefy! Check out those guns.

Argh, I thought Hellraiser 3 was terrible. Both for the schlocky new Cenobites (A DJ shoots lethal CDs at you! A cameraman pierces your skull with his zoom-lens eye while saying "Ready for your close-up?"), and the fact that it lost the plot of what Cenobites are about. (Hint: It's not mass murder.) Serious let-down…

Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game. Loved it. I very much loved New Vegas as well, but FO3 has a dearer place in my heart since it's the first time experiencing that universe. NV definitely improved upon the game mechanics, but back in the day I was obsessed with the wide open choices FO3 offered: I punched the…

But that's my point. Describe it like that and of course it sounds terrible. Hey, did you see that movie The Avengers? A bunch of loner superheroes squabble with each other, then pull together as a team to fight off an alien invasion. So clichéd! But execute it well and it's enjoyable. But if you didn't like Vessel,…

Ha!

That was enjoyable! I didn't find it clichéd— The difference between "cliché" and "awesome" is in the execution, and I found the execution to be well done. Some parts were quite chilling! The only part that tickled my pet peeve bone is the idea that a member of an alien race so advanced they can fly to other planets…

Don't forget the extension cord for your bonesaw.

This is terrible news, but I dare say, if it had to happen, the choice of the Happy Endings people is the best choice to succeed Dan Harmon. I know there's been a lot of Happy Endings hate in the thread so far, but it is very Community-influenced: When I first started watching HE, my thought was "This is as if someone…

You didn't get through five minutes of that three minute promo?

Wow, I'm not sure I'd want to live any of these moments first-hand. Video game worlds are scary and dangerous. That's why they're so exhilarating.

Ah, so you're applying the Bechdel Test? Fair enough, though you do have to admit the movie featured "cool ladies and ladies-treated-as-people-and-not-just-ladies."

Did you watch it? There may not have been many ladies in it (and Whedon was aware of that shortcoming) but there were many great pairings including the ladies. In addition to the Natasha and Clint scene mentioned above, there was Natasha and Loki (one of the best scenes), Natasha and Coulson (over the phone but…

Thirded, and I was going to suggest the same substitution. The genius of Timecrimes is that there's no chortling evil senator looking to abuse time travel... The time travel itself causes a lot of bad things to happen. It hints at a terrifying existence in which lives are ruined by idiopathic stable time loops that…

A lot of people are theorizing how the Snow Elf Prince will still be alive, but I bet septims to sweet rolls that we'll just see him as a sparkly blue ghost.

Yeah, I was thinking the whole time: Why not just push them out of the amber with a long stick?

Well, that's a strange question. Is every activity supposed to just be practice at getting better at something? Even recreational activities?

The main way my smartphone hampers my social activity is that Gawker mobile sites have no commenting functionality. Fix that, you guys! About 90% of the time I'm reading your sites on my phone.

Yeah, I agree— this season has been all over the place, with hardly a discernible overarching plot. But at least some of what you mention has been resolved.