"Federation" was the first Trek novel I read. It was written prior to First Contact, which contradicts most of it, but it's still an amazing novel.

If the planet being Earth is the twist, then getting that out in the preview is a great touch. But, no. It'll have a retarded, second twist. Like the main characters are clones, or the same person time-traveling, or temporally displaced identical twins, and it won't be relevant to the plot at all, just forced in…

Look, they just really, really need to get the skull back before the 21st. No special reason.

Sorry, do you want to start talking about bullshit science in TOS alone? Because that would take us quite a while, while we go episode by episode outlining the fact that the writers were some of the least creative, least scientifically inclined people in history.

You know, killing Spock would almost be so obvious as to be a surprise. If they hint it so strongly that everyone rolls their eyes, imagine the shock when it happens. And then three could be Star Treking for Spock.

That is...odd.

"Bad" is very much a subjective thing. You shouldn't dismiss a product that performed amazingly well for its age with nothing else like it on the market just because you, personally, didn't like it.

Oh, and Cumberbatch is clearly playing Charlie from Charlie X.

A couple of those buildings look vaguely familiar. London?

I once heard someone explaining chaotic neutral for a modern setting:

The very last episode of any NCIS series was the well known "two idiots, one keyboard" episode. Not because of that, I was just getting bored with the show.

Yeah, no. I'm an atheist, and I'm a huge science fiction nerd. The massive, gaping hole in your argument should be apparent right off: science *fiction*. While I love a good ascension to godhood, mystical beings who exist outside time and space, body-jumping telepaths who raise existential quandaries, it's ALL…

And they're both astronauts. I guess there must be some kind of heroism gene.

I'm still voting for Gary Seven.

But Mitchell had the *potential* all along; he had that extremely high Esper rating. Maybe something else could trigger his ascension.

Wow, the beetle equivalent of my former roommate. Of course, I should've known something was up when he evolved a handle.

I'm holding out hope that they'll tell us what happened with Nero/Old Spock in the mirror universe(s),

WWZ sounds less interesting the more I hear about it.

I recall reading an article about this a few years ago, when it was discovered Anne Frank had been among the victims—I mean, baptized.