Also the running gag that never was: "Beam me up Scotty" (words that were never uttered in TOS).

That was definitely one of the more amusing bits in the special :)

That somehow makes "Reverse the polarity" less of a running gag? Someone, even if it wasn't the script writer, *chose* those words.

Star Trek from 1987 through 2005:
The Deflector Dish coming to the rescue..
Using it as a giant phaser
Remodulating it to perform some otherwise impossible task
Opening trans-warp conduits
and so on…

And the obscure reference of the day award goes to: Eric for referencing a scene (with a stellar performance from Lucy Lawless) from a movie very few people remember anymore.

They should get Zac Efron to do a guest spot as a one-off love interest for Annie. That would be hilarious. He's a bit more age-appropriate than Jeff (at least as far as character ages go), and it would be hilarious to see Jeff go into jealous fits of rage/frustration as someone else starts to take over his role in…

Mission Hill, Undergrads, and Clone High

Also really awesome, and from the same MTV period as Clone High, was Undergrads (http://www.imdb.com/title/t….