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Shakespeare didn't write twice as much of the Bard as Chang quotes in the finished film.

Might I inquire whether you have any thoughts about some way to increase the density of hydrazine by thirty percent without changing anything else about the tank design? I'm also curious whether there are any experienced rocket engineers with good things to say about monopropellants, considering.

While there's never any guessing exactly how rigorously the writers were thinking of this sort of thing, it is the case that in the postwar US submarine service a captain must be a qualified (nuclear) engineer. I don't know what the requirements are for other kinds of US Navy ship. But it...

Isn't it rather more urgent that we develop a scheme for the computing of the date of Easter which preserves its position as an early-spring, post-vernal-equinox holiday in the Northern Hemisphere? That's a problem that will be acute within only four thousand years, after all.

Have to say, if there's one thing Spock should have been reading up on during his time as the Controller ... sure, the chance to apply it might be low, but if a plausible chance comes up he ought to be ready to assist.

Because ``five years'' is near enough to sound imminent and therefore exciting, while distant enough to sound like it might be plausibly what you'd need to design, test, build, and launch a spacecraft capable of going to Mars and returning if you haven't paid attention to what big aerospace...

My love, a Columbo fan of long standing, tells me that the prop is almost certainly meant to represent the character's history, as Shatner is here playing a renowned actor. One whose current series has him playing a detective, which seems like it's getting dangerously close to reality-breaking...

Not to take seriously a bunch of people who have never been possible to take seriously, but one can ask whether an in-flight magazine map is evidence of anything but the in-flight magazine editors hiring a graphic designer.

Well, I got it. But an eternal source of annoyance to my love is that I will make facetious comments in a group, and people will answer not getting the joke, and I'm delighted by the response. My love, who in twenty years has never once failed to recognize my straight-faced jokes for what...

The moons of the outer planets seem likely to be able to support the kind of chemistry we believe life needs. It's not a great match, but we don't know just how delicate a balance of factors need to be satisfied for life to start, or to sustain itself. Hard to say. Microbes are weird things...

I've got a pretty strong hunch.

Well, if Seth MacFarlane can't tell the difference what chance has the casual viewer got?

Riker: ``Wait, running on the lawn is a crime too? Um ... '' Another botched first contact with the Planet of Living Surgical Gowns. Riker: ``Since when does an honorable Klingon call 'You're it I quit'?!'' Worf: ``Since he won!'' LaForge: ``I'm busy here, I got no time for John...

I realize it's just a typo, but now I kind of want to see what turns up on deviantArt in searching for 'tri-corsets'. Please stop me. It won't go well.

I'm not sure being that famous is important. But it would have to be more recognizable than Richard Dix. And needs to be someone who's recognizable as a romantic lead. Maybe Ramon Navarro could have been used. Ronald Colman, perhaps. Might put in a bid for Douglas Fairbanks or Maurice...

Spot of further research, by the way. If we substitute Richard Dix for Clark Gable and look up his filmography instead, then there's two candidate movies. One is Shooting Straight, released in July of 1930 and therefore right out. But Dix's other movie of 1930 was Lovin' the Ladies, a...

Yeah, but ... if the Internet Broadway Database is reliable, by 1930 in our timeline Gable had been in only three shows, per https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/clark-gable-67574 Although popular Broadway shows of the late 20s are one of my fields of ignorance, none of them seem...

No, 'ambassadors' were the stuff of pompous, corrupt monarchies doing secret deals with each other. The whole United States, a virtuous liberal republic, didn't even send ambassadors anywhere until 1893; it sent ministers or envoys instead. Even the President of Pennsylvania wouldn't be so...

Sorry, he said the people working on it were ``Trekkers'' and that's my deal-breaker. Trekkie or go home. Also why can't I set the DVR to record this already?

Too obvious for a property that named its Space Romans the 'Romulans'? (But yeah, that's about what I figured happened.)