Plus, going outside the galaxy gets rid of Star Trek’s justification for the commonness of humanoids (that is, an ancient humanoid species seeded the galaxy with humanoid DNA GAH IT’S SO STUPID IT HURTS), so maybe more starfish aliens?

In what way is it a Firefly/Serenity reference?

You take that back, right now.

That trend bugs me too, but I thought it was a clever mixture of the mundane and fantastic and a good reminder that, despite all of the magic and mysticism, the characters live in a modern world, and more importantly, are perfectly willing/able to use modern technologies.

I’m pretty sure this is separate from the movies, which seems like a good move.

“The wi-fi password. We’re not savages.”

Does this mean it won’t be an anthology? I liked that idea.

And then all the executives laughed and snorted more cocaine.

Have watched it. Wasn’t as bad for me as for others, I suspect, because I knew what was coming.

I’m on season 6. And while the show’s sad occasionally, it’s almost always hopeful, and I’ve never found it depressing.

More sad, definitely. Not more depressing. Hopelessness is depressing, and even when sad, I think Futurama is hopeful. Sadness is not depressing; after all, sad is just happy for deep people.

The sad things spring from happy things, though. The loyalty of a dog, the love of parents, the cherished memory of a sibling... I don’t remember the cheese hat thing. Heartwrenching, but heartwarming.

Futurama may not make me laugh as hard as other comedies.

Is that cephalopod-like active camouflage on a hairy creature? How does that work?

It’s been said before, but it can’t give less of a crap than that perfect asshole Chopper.

5 bucks says that they cut him off there because the rest of his statement makes it clear that he was actually just talking about the complexity of the prosthesis.

“making it one of the most remote known objects in the entire solar system of significant size.”

In a universe with time travel, it doesn’t matter when the divergence occurred. The tiny changes to the Kelvin Timeline caused by Spock and Nero’s time travel caused the Temporal Cold War to play out differently, which in turn resulted in all the differences that Spock and Nero’s time travel can’t explain.

Hope so! He out-snarks Hunter himself. He’d be a fantastic addition, especially if Hunter and Bobby stay gone.

I’m tempted to make some sort of comment about a certain oft-repeated yet ill-supported definition of insanity here, but I’ll restrain myself.