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BARIS: Gorged? On my grain? Kirk, I am going to hold you responsible. There must be thousands of them.

Not at all! They could have him lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children...

I can't say it changed my life, and I didn't settle on a career or anything like that, but it helped make me the person I am now. I began to read at an early age and always read stuff aimed at older age groups. When I was about 10 (circa 1968) and selling magazine subscriptions to help my...

Do you have a model number? That might help.

RE: HAL's motivation. As I see it, HAL considered himself essential to the mission. When Bowman and Poole talk about disconnecting him he took it as a threat to the mission and went about killing off the humans on board. But the incorrectly predicted failure of the AE-35 was the only reason...

This was probably a bit of sloppiness on the part of the writers, possibly keeping "We're not that sure of our facts" from an earlier draft. In context, I think we can interpret Spock as saying "it really doesn't matter if she dies now or a little later like the obituary says." Kirk, perhaps...

JONES: That happens to be my sample, and I'll do with it as I please. And I please to give it to the lovely lady.

Of course you're absolutely right, which is why I joke about how an art-by-committee remake would miss that aspect entirely. To be a bit more serious: I can't imagine a remake would be anything but inept, because anyone motivated to do a remake would almost certainly be missing everything that...

CHEKOV: He won't bite, will he?

Yeah, that would work, too! HAL is driven insane by jealousy because he really wants Dave: Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it...

A 2001 reboot today would have to have the following: A lengthy and slightly incoherent explanation of the split between our "prime" timeline and a timeline that has a huge space station and moonbases in 2001. Frank Poole is a woman. Dave Bowman is gay. Lots of action and explosions! HAL would...

IANAL, but "City on the Edge of Forever" was almost certainly a work for hire, which means legally Ellison was not owed anything past the compensation any other TOS writer got. I'm sure Samuel A. Peeples' estate doesn't get money every time the barrier at the edge of the galaxy appears, nor is...

LURRY: Quadrotriticale is the only earth grain that grows on Sherman's Planet. We have several tons of it here on the station. It's very important that grain gets to Sherman's Planet safely. Mister Baris thinks that Klingon agents may try to sabotage it.

Captain: Kirk First Officer: Riker Science Officer/Second Officer: Spock Helmsman: Mayweather Navigator: Arex Ops: Seven of Nine Tactical/Security: Worf Communications: Sato Engineering: Scott (although with an ops officer, he might not be on the bridge all the time.) Ensign/Trainee: Kevin...

There's only one Trek-themed whisky I care about:

UHURA: Aye, sir. Transporter room, stand by.

No, the awful Family Guy figures are by Mezco: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41uAhl-QBkL._SX355_.jpg :rolleyes: ETA: Apologies for posting a hotlink to an image in my original post. I honestly forgot about the rule. Won't happen from now on.

I don't really see any big problem with any of these. As has been said, people will sometimes look back on the past as being backwards and uncivilized, and sometimes long for the good old days. I personally love "Relics", and saw Scotty's annoying Geordi as a symptom of his love of engineering...

KIRK: Go to warp factor six.

That's a great analysis. It's almost the theme of Stanisław Lem's Solaris (the book, less so the movie adaptations). [No real spoilers ahead.] The sentient planet is able to mimic intelligent human communication (in often disturbing ways) but is so alien that the two species really can't find a...