Although they had already stopped using them for the entirety of Enterprise, Discovery and Strange New Worlds, and had completely dropped them by The Next Generation, leaving a brief window where they somewhat returned as a stupid retro fad.
It’s only a socialist utopia where money isn’t important in the same sense that Starfleet isn’t a military organization. Meanwhile, they all speak English, and their headquarters is in the US.
I knew I had seen this discussed somewhere here recently… It was in the XKCD thread.
The video in that post is a barrel being exploded by adding a half-liter of water.
San Francisco, no less.
Wow! Cool. TIL! Neat one. Thanks.
I believe it is canon that Scotty had command class before going into engineering; of course that means
The UN also has its headquarters in the US, but that doesn’t make it a successor state to the US.
And everyone in the galaxy speaks English. Or maybe no one does. Everything we hear is filtered through the universal translator, so there’s no reliable in-universe way to determine how common English actually is among Federation members.
I saw Star Trek: the Motion Picture recently, and was struck by the scene where the Enterprise encounters VGER’s ship for the first time. Kirk tells Sulu to make a pass over it at 500 meters, then to increase the distance.
Oh, Oh !! A relevant video clip !!! In this accurate and unnerving clip from The Larry King Show, Neil Degrasse Tyson describes what happens if the Earth were to stop rotating even for one second.
And yet…it’s a movie, people. You cannot debate the poor astrophysics involved in Supe’s widdershins Earthly spin. You can’t.
Because it’s being peformed by an alien creature from a long-dead planet.
C’mon. Just do what I did when I took the SEPTA train to Center City Philly after my mid-terms in 1979 so I could see it on a reallllllly big screen. Munch popcorn and suspend belief entirely.
After all, the one-sheet teaser from the year before said, " You Will Believe A Man Can Fly ".
One by one, the stars would all go out?
In the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, EVERY SINGLE James Bond rewatch podcast makes the exact same mistake.
“What happens to the captured Russian sailors? Do the Americans and British leave them behind to die when they first break out?”
Except of course no, the Russian sailors escaped too. The problem is their white uniforms look extremely similar to the British white uniforms and because none of them have a speaking role people just assume they were other British sailors.
I have seen a lot of posts on Facebook sharing weird panels from old comic books. I often share those posts and comment in detail how much I miss those kinds of comics. A four dimensional imp who can only be sent home by being made to say his name backwards? A whole planet of Bixarros? A planet that Superman personally reshaped into a cube? Memories of Krypton that would blend seamlessly into an episode of The Jetsons?
Sign me up!
They’d be covered by the water from our field of view !!! 
When he went back in time, many bad events were undone, including Lois dying. Why weren’t good things also undone, like him stopping the first missile?
You’d be surprised how many people think Indiana Jones became immortal at the end of Last Crusade when he drank from the Holy Grail. Nope, though he could have stayed in that room drinking from it a few times a day…then he would have lived nearly forever.
While Henry Jones wasn’t rendered immortal, the film does present some impressive curative powers courtesy of the cup (The Cup). Then again, the water is drawn from what is clearly a Baptismal Font. Yes, Yes, I’ve seen the film more than a dozen times. It’s about The Holy Grail. But…the water is supposedly sanctified just as the Cup is.
Just saying. If Indy dipped the cup into the kitchen sink, we may or may not- according to Grail Lore™- have had the healing scene.
Food for thought. Heh.
Probably 80% of people think that when Hooper was investigating the hole in the demolished boat, Ben Gardner’s severed head came bobbing out of it. Except it wasn’t severed, it was clearly still attached to his shoulders and torso.
I had a different problem with Last Crusade. The Nazis shoot Doctor Jones Sr and say ‘If you bring back the Grail, you can save him. Otherwise, he will die.’ Having already witnessed proof of God’s existence and the power of a Biblical relic in the first film, why doesn’t Indy just let his father die? Indy has again seen proof. If his father dies, he will be rewarded for a virtuous life. If Indy brings back the Grail and saves his father’s life, the Nazis will have the Grail. That would be very bad. So the decision is- Indy lets his father die, knowing he will go to heaven OR he delivers the Grail to the Nazis which, despite the limitations of the Grail, could lead to Hitler conquering the world and ruling as an immortal dicator. Indy chose , , , poorly.
I just love the scene where the Avengers are debating the effects of them going back in time, and someone (Bruce Banner?) says “Just so we’re clear, everyone realizes that we’re basing our theory of time travel on Back To The Future, right?”
(paraphrased)