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Even the Amazon version that comes with the U.S.S. Spoiler? Fricken lame. You get an entire starship, the least they could do is slip in an extra disc.

Interesting read about the "Roddenberry Box" that evolved into the "Pillar Box." Basically, a set of Draconian writer's guidelines that made it a hundreds of times harder to develop drama within a script. All because humanity had solved all its problems by the 24th century and nobody has...

I have new-found appreciation for Insurrection after reading about how a later draft of the script involved a llama pissing on Beverly Crusher. WTF!!

"How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand, fifty thousand, a million? How many people does it take, Admiral? HOW FUCKING MANY?! I'll punch you with these new, buff arms I never had before on the T.V. series!! I WILL GROW ADAMANTIUM CLAWS BEFORE THE NEXT...

Yeah, Insurrection was a hot, sloppy mess. Like someone melted a pound of Ex-Lax into the bowl of chocolate fondue at an old folks home party, waited a few hours, then pulled the fire alarm. I loved the part where they drained an entire lake enough to reveal a spaceship several stories tall...

The Star Trek V novelization actually attempted to explain that the shields were modified by Sybok to survive the passage. His gained this knowledge from the being at Sha-Ka-Ree. The Klingons tailing them scanned the ship as it was running with this unusual shield configuration and replicated...

Okay, that bit made me laugh.

I agree with the dialogue deletion. The non-sequitur insults Spock's intelligence, and adds nothing but a cringe to an otherwise near-flawless film. It would be like Kirk saying, "Khan's starship is a different shape than ours!" and having that fact somehow impress Spock.

I remember gawking at that poster at the theater in 1986 and wondering later why it wasn't used more.

I suppose we won't get a high-definition version of the TOS crew movie era episode where Captain Kirk swaps bodies with a yeoman (all but the head) while beaming up. It's all Captain Scott's fault, but for some reason Scotty is in the TNG engineering deck while aboard the Enterprise-A. This is...

The hell I did...

"Why would you do this...?" "Because the needs of the one... outweighed the needs of the many." *pause* "You're a fricken idiot."

MPAA ratings are so useless. It's all about money. Nobody wants a G-rating because it invokes a "kiddie film" stigma. Nobody wants NC-17 because it's equivalent to an X-rating and box office death due to theaters not wanted to exhibit such trash. And yet an "unrated" home video release may...

I noticed that too. It's rated G you butt-holes!

They flipped the plot summaries for First Contact and Insurrection on the back cover. For a moment, reading the summary for First Contact was working, if overstated, but then Insurrection flat-out said it was about time travel to stop the Borg. Nice quality control there for the Crown Jewels of...

I believe my response would be "Go to hell."

Fast-forward to 1984. My Dad and I went to see Star Trek III. When it was over, we stepped outside, exchanged a tense glance, and then he said, "Well, that stunk." I laughed.

I very much looked forward to TMP when I was a kid. I watched the animated series when it premiered in 1973, grateful for any dose of Star Trek. Star Wars, on the other hand, was a significant unknown. Word of mouth spread to my ears that it was a comedy, given all the out-of-context funny...

In the special longer version, Captain Kirk suits up to go fetch Mr. Spock. Unfortunately, he is standing in a partial set that, in widescreen, would look absurd due to the ship looking like an unfinished plywood thing with rigging showing.

If only... if only... oh, my God please do this for real...!

I'm pretty sure the titles were blue to begin with. I remember being struck by how much they broke from The Motion Picture's style, i.e. highly dynamic, different typeface, epic... and blue. I'm pretty sure I saw a "II" as well, though other sources—such as the novelization—omitted the number...

Easter eggs are obsolete in the New Order. Resistance is futile.

Which means Sulu is a Klingon agent like Arne Darvin, because no prior episode, book or movie had presented this ship design before. And where was Sulu during "The Trouble With Tribbles" when the little fuzzies were outing Klingon spies with their screeching? Exactly. Not there! I rest my case.

I think Klingons have Birds of Prey due to their alliance with the Romulans. One presumes there would be a sharing of technologies and maybe even aesthetics (painted bird plumage underneath the ship). However, I wonder why Klingons would still use Romulan-inspired "bird of prey" ship designs...

The poor Star Trek cash cow must be giving powdered milk at this point. Just give us what we want.

For immediate release:Robert Downey, Jr. has signed on to reprise his most famous role with a villainous turn as Iron Man in "Star Trek 3," the immediate follow-up to "Star Trek Into Darkness." The new film is tentatively titled "StarK Trek." The "K" will appear as a red, hand-scrawled letter on...

It should come with a "Hail, Yeah!" T-shirt with Uhura on it. That's swag I can get behind.

TNG's "Spock" was Data, DS9's "Spock" was Odo, Voyager's "Spock" was Seven of Nine (sorry Tuvok), Enterprise's "Spock" was T'Pol, and J.J. Abrams' Trek's "Spock" was actually Spock plus a bonus Spock... so yeah you definitely need Spock.

I still have my 1979 LP soundtrack, which was the first vinyl record I ever bought. I could never understand why most of the music was missing, or why the tracks were sequenced out of order. Now I've learned about limitations imposed by unions such as American Federation of Musicians (AFM). When...