I probably just filed it behind all the other awesome things that happen elsewhere in the movie.

you can't make a show like this without being able to threaten us with the deaths of the sub-major characters. It doesn't really matter if its a big shift in timeline or a small one, the shift itself means they get to waggle Chekov's death in front of us in the next movie.

holy shit, really? How have I seen Back to the Future 500 million times and not caught that?

I can't believe Michael drowned in this finale!
I mean, no one can swim that far, right?

amen

I don't know if I agree with all this talk of Conan having to tone it down. Come on people, 11:30 is LATE. The audience will be bigger, sure, but its not as if he's moving to prime time here. Leno was soft because he's a born crowd-pleaser who has no edge, and Carson was of an era. That doesn't mean that you can't…

amen brother—-I love the way the ERP-DFPs are all pressed up against the cockpit canopies, not just sitting at the controls.

lost smoothes my brain wrinkles
My only problem with this show is more a problem with my brain, apparently—-I can never remember all the earlier tie-ins well enough to join in the make-a-theory competitions. Too much time between seasons, let alone between episodes.

That's a goddamned fantastic analysis/description. And why you would want to strip out a Princess Bride reference, no matter what the context, I shall never know.