Yep, he used the joke a couple different times. I’m not sure when he said the “As I hurtled through space” comment, but he said basically the same thing during his retirement speech in 1997:

“As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.” - John Glenn

It’s not necessarily that Star Trek’s stories themselves are uplifting. There is still conflict, prejudice, war, villains (including my namesake), bad decisions, etc. The stories though are set against such a hopeful future for mankind. We have eliminated prejudice and poverty and set our minds on exploration and…

I think the movie version of the Enteprise actually made great strides in making the ship feel less cartoony.

One thing that’s great about the Enterprise is that it looks like a spaceship design by people who are used to travelling in space. It’s not aerodynamic like a pure flying saucer but its more sleek and purposefully built than an Apollo capsule. It’s made for long journeys with a big crew. It’s a spaceship for a…

To be fair, the ST universe is supposed to be massive, and new species show up in new entries all the time that the Federation has known about but we simply haven’t seen onscreen. This is totally different from, say, all the technology in the Star Wars universe suddenly getting shittier over the 30 years between III…

If it’s a refined (ie. retro but slightly modernized) version of the Cage’s sets/costumes, I’d be a happy camper. I suspect, though, based on the ship design, that what we’re going to get will either be close to Enterprise or post-TMP movie era.

Right - I’m still trying to figure out how they’re going to address the set/costume incongruity with TOS, which is only a few years later.

I’m a little disappointed that all the latest series / movies are in pre existing time lines (ish, moves altered some stuff)

As a fan that loves the sciences division, it is just delightful that one of the first named actors is playing a character specializing in the study of alien fungus. I may have my worries about Discovery, but the fact that they’re highlighting extraterrestrial mushroom research is not one of them.

Oh, not this again. The Next Generation doesn’t have its own theme music. Its theme is a mashup of the fanfare to Alexander Courage’s TOS theme and Jerry Goldsmith’s theme for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, also used in Goldsmith’s later Trek movie scores (The Final Frontier and the last three TNG movies). I’m…

There are many ways you should judge a movie, it’s Rotten Tomatoes rating is not one of them.

I think it is worth noting that Donald Trump is almost certainly not the next Hitler and that I generally find comparisons between Nazism, the Holocaust, and contemporary people and events highly distasteful and disrespectful of all those who lost their lives. There are exceptions of course. It is appropriate to…

If they’re doing what I think, and they’re going to have Lightning’s story mirror how Doc Hudson was kicked out of racing after his accident, then I could see a cameo where Dusty meets Lightning and they talk about how Dusty almost had to leave racing and found a new career. And that will inspire Lightning to either…

It just occurred to me that the solution would be a Yesterday-Tomorrowland. It would be more historical in nature, but the idea would be to showcase what each generation envisioned the future would be like. 19th and early 20th century steam-driven, Jules Verne vision of the future. A 1950's/60's art deco, silver…

I think it’s not that bad. A bad Pixar movie is still better than most movies.

Is this really a pixar trailer? I had to check the user name on Youtube. I feel like i’m being trolled.

So many people missing the point of EPCOT being mentioned here...

Yeah, the Mater shorts ARE pretty good. That is where that character excels. Short bursts of absurd humor.

Planes: Fire & Rescue was better than Planes and on par with Cars 2 in my estimation.