@avclub-1f93a5d50953fac07d7e6f54827ce9bc:disqus They also turned off all the lights in Generations, since the set apparently looked terrible when you shot it on film.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus, you should mention to your friend that it was the Trekkies of the 1970s who gave us the gifts of both slash fiction and the Mary Sue in its classical form.

I, for one, wouldn't mind Star Trek Into The Funk, starring Karl Urban as pimptastic '70s Dr. McCoy, complete in TMP costume.

*wasn't paying attention, cranks "The Barry Williams Show"*

One idea I find cute (for a given value of "cute") was the idea that popped up in one of Peter David's novels that Risa was essentially the Disneyland of sex tourism. Apparently if you're into the really freaky stuff, Argelius II is the place to go.

My personal take on the whole matter is that the Defiant class was a fundamentally flawed prototype that managed to find a role for itself by sheer luck. The DS9 tech manual gives the impression that design work on the ship was much faster than usual for a Starfleet ship, with the whole project being started seemingly…

Well, you're in luck @avclub-854442237c93ac86504c16cf46f887ba:disqus. It just so happens that there's a mash-up floating around that puts the instrumental track for this song up with Justin Timberlake's "Suit and Tie" and it is pretty friggin' catchy.

What, like some unholy combination of a Holocaust denier and a truther?

Despite my issues with the comic, I do like commie Superman.

That was the Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov back in the 1970s. He pissed off the Bulgarian communist party, so the security services had him whacked as a birthday present for gensek Zhivkov.

I wanted to post this, maybe in all caps with a few exclamation points or something, but you've said it all, really.

He also enjoys yachting and a nice glass of wood-grain-alcohol-and-peach-preserves.

Let's not forget the sticky issue of economic considerations. It would be nice to disassemble DS9 and build a memorial or something of that nature, but it is a reasonably functional spaceport, and  just after the Occupation ended Bajor's two chief exports were surplus Cardassian rifles and Bajorans with PhDs, so it…

You know, @avclub-53e4db6f596904f154b5efa09193e3ab:disqus, I'm just starting to figure out how to read movies a little better, but I can't help but think there's way more going on in those instructions than simple directorial pendantry. Given how 2001 is very concerned with man's relationship with technology, it seems…

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus, I think they explained what they do on an episode of Voyager. If memory serves, they get in a circle around you, whack you with oars, then suck all the fluid out of your body in order to procreate.

That's probably no surprise, @avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus, considering that Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens joined the staff of the show in season 4. They've done a few Trek novels (Federation, Prime Directive, the DS9 Millenium trilogy), and they tend to go for the epic sagas that delve into all…

SEE ALSO: the TOS work of Diane Duane.

He solves practical problems.

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus: I'm nostalgic for it because it's the plot that involves the Excelsior, the most beautiful starship ever made.

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus, that reminds me of something I wanted to mention.