Well, it's not like a sword would be able to cut through the pressure hull. Aside from the fact that others are armed with phasers that could.

Well, the foil was never exactly a practical side weapon in any age, and the actual combat equivalent, the rapier, has such an elaborate design that it wouldn't really fit.

Well, he has a practice sword on the ship. I doubt they would let him have an actual dueling—

I once took fencing lessons, until I blew my knee out. The foil is a learning/practice weapon. Even if not a dulled weapon, it has no edge, the "blade" has a square or round (depending on style/maker) cross section. The only offensive place on it is the tip.

Agreed. Romantic subplots aren't always necessary. Looking at you Marvel.

Ozymondias from Watchman totally subverts the super-villain stereotypes by revealing his plan to the heroes after he already carried it out.

"I'm never going to have kids so I feel like I don't belong as much in this conversation..."

Don Quixote. I read it at the behest of a lit. crit. undergrad class that was principally focused in Lacanian theory. I had no idea it would become my favorite novel—and that the Knight of the Sorrowful Face would become my favorite character.

The guy who wrote a 50-page dissertation on it.

Man, it was referenced in my social circle all the time.

This doesn't beat all the great ones that've already been posted, but have to add this to the mix! (And it also happens to be, for me at least, the most internally consistently logical time travel movie I'm aware of!)

We're done here...

Hands down... this is the greatest eighties film!

Life of a Repo Man is always intense...

Just goes without saying...

Still waiting for that sequel, since I was 7... still waiting.

Reminds me of something I threw into a bit of car prose a few years ago: "Somewhere in the distance a lowered Honda lost a drag race to a minivan that didn't even know it was racing."