I had the opportunity to watch "The Motion Picture" again in a theater recently. It's a much, much better film than people give it credit for. Yes, not without its flaws. But you can't help but appreciate that it's kind of the only time the "big ideas" side of Trek would be predominant in a movie. The reviewer is…

Yeah it's weird how III quasi-acts like Carol Marcus doesn't exist. Like the scene where David admits he used "protomatter." Like, what did his mom, who was only the head scientist, have to say about that?

Yeah the TMP uniforms and the early TNG ones were heavily influenced by Roddenberry, who apparently had a real conviction that form-fitting pajama wear would be where it was at in the future.

"Buffoon does something which is both harmful and offensive, defends himself as harmless and inoffensive." There, fixed it for you.

While the candidates are debating at one of the universities hosting those events, a secret experiment of dubious scientific value in a nearby physics building goes awry, causing the candidates' physical makeup to get scrambled on a molecular level. The result is Dillary Clumpton, the most diabolical presidential…

Geological classifications of bodies of water were a little bit looser back then. Pretty much the only distinction explorers cared about was, "Northwest Passage" and "Not The Northwest Passage." When it dawned upon them that everything they encountered fit into the latter category, a more refined vocabulary was…

No, "fat shaming" is no longer PC either.

Now reading "The Fools in Town are on Our Side" by Ross Thomas, a criminally underrated author.

Yeah, he probably should have quit after "The Long Goodbye." How was he ever going to top that?

"Actually, it kind of would be. Let's bring this whole corporate system down to it's knees."

Yeah but Fallon takes it to a whole other level. Like I said in an earlier post, Fallon makes Leno look like Edward R. Murrow or Mike Wallace.

Well, I would agree that in some respects what Lauer did was more detestable. But my main point is that I don't agree with this concept of, "Jimmy Fallon's just a comedian, so at the end of the day it shouldn't really matter what he does when candidates come on the show." I simply don't think he gets a free pass by…

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. All I know is that the balance of those numbers keeps shifting the other direction day by day. NYT's numbers are also consistently more favorable to Clinton than Fivethirtyeight's, and that site is now saying that for the first time in this cycle Trump has a really viable…

Which would turn the Presidency over to Mike Pence, who apparently doesn't feel he has to be too hasty in denouncing David Duke.

Do you actually live in the USA? What makes you so certain you or those close to you won't be affected by said "disaster?" And I'm kind of alarmed that some people feel merely "curious" at the prospect of so many suffering "disaster", for the sake of their personal "entertainment."

They're only human, I guess. As the late Michael O'Donoghue once said, "Television money is the purest of motivations."

I imagine his NBC overlords would have kept commies verboten. You've got to have some standards.

I don't expect Jimmy Fallon to give an incisive interview to anybody. Actually, I don't expect that from Matt Lauer, either - in my opinion, Lauer's just another entertainer on an entertainment show made-up to look like it's a news program. Even the supposedly serious Sunday morning news shows are an embarrassment…

I recall seeing white used for Perot in 1992, which I suppose makes sense as it completes the "colors of the flag" theme.

They've done it more than that - by some political scientists' counting the United States is now on its fourth or fifth historical "party system."