Heh, I had to figure out that pully thing, too, after Smith's last episode. They're Christmas Crackers. Big in the UK, and their Commonwealth countries. The weird paper crowns are related.

In terms of writing, this is probably just an average episode. Nothing special: odd thing happens, Doctor reasons it out.

I'd probably bring in the mirror universe and have Shatner play old Mirror Kirk, seeking to destabilize the Federation and prevent them from interfering with the Terran Empire again. I would definitely bring Old Spock back, and probably kill off a main character for extra drama. Probably Bones.

Yes.

No Batnipples. I like it.

I think that's more a matter of animation styling, blue for darker than surrounding blacks.

It seems like this article stops just when it starts to approach the really interesting things, like the Miller-Urey experiment, among others that attempted to recreate the early conditions of Earth and successfully produced amino acids. Also worth review is the Brooks et al. paper that studied some of the most common…

A fireplace? I love the idea of seeing smoke coming out of a rock.

Imprisoned her in a parallel universe and left a genocidal human version of himself to keep her company, then erased the memory of the one person on Earth who knew what he did. Yeah, he's moved way on.

Pewds never really did it for me, but I've got a focus on co-op games, so I'm more likely to watch people playing games with a group, like Seananners et al.. But they've had the same dopey, cheerful thing going on for the last few years.

Of all the people in Hollywood in all of history, Burton has the least solid ground on which to stand and accuse someone else of being formulaic.

That could still fit with his headcanon, as there is a limited number of pathways turbolifts could follow. If Kirk stopped the turbolift in the way of the only available exit, there's no point to a fresh turbolift pod to have been released.

So, we're not going to talk about Zorg in the Fifth Element, who isn't even aware of the hero's existence, and never once even communicates with him?

So, it isn't actually anything like the Metaverse, which was purely digital and controlled from a stationary location, it's more like that augmented reality thing from Pattern Recognition by a different (and *cough* better) writer.

Christ. No, no, no, no, and no. Can we give it to...I don't know, James Gunn?

Then there was that beautiful moment when her assistant reported another change in population, and rather than a death, there had finally been a birth. An increase of a single digit. Hope for the human race. Manly tears were shed.

Permission to squee?

I'm guessing...Damien? Because your parents thought Wormwood might be a little too Satanic?

"purchased by a complete idiot for $6.5 million."