Like “Exploding Bird of Prey”, the “Flying Klingon” clip is originally from The Undiscovered Country.

With mint frosting!

sips my store-brand Colombian

One of the best scenes in Trek. Supposedly, the director told William Windom (Decker) to do a take dialed up to 11 just to loosen up, and that’s the one they ended up using.

The rug really ties the room together.

Multiple HTTP requests can be performed over a single connection, and not all connections are for HTTP requests in the first place. The only way to know that an HTTP request is being made (or how many) is to actually see the requests.

It would be a privacy nightmare, of course. Either we would all have to install monitoring software on our devices, or we would have to allow ISPs to break HTTPS.

Short answer, “yes” with an “if.” Long answer, “no” with a “but.”

Quiet, she’ll hear you!

My child, that’s not really fair. Winn was ambitious and power-hungry, yes, and that made her corruptible, true, but that’s not the same as being evil. I also think she redeemed herself at the end, using her last breath to tell the Emissary how to defeat the Pah Wraiths.

Break out the self-sealing pitchforks!

I don’t understand why bagpipes get such hate. The music they make is not unpleasant. And don’t tell me you didn’t cry when Scotty started playing “Amazing Grace” at the end of Wrath of Khan. That’s impossible.

Assuming a ~20% shift towards pro-choice opinions I would expect more pro-choice laws, not an orgy of casual abortions.

Polling suggests that around 70% of women and 50% of men support abortion, though. If those stats simply reversed then nothing really changes.

Independence Day was peak 1990’s Americana.

I started using a white noise machine and fans on high when I lived down the block from a hospital emergency room. It sounded like a jet engine in my bedroom, but my brain learned to interpret the white noise as profound silence. I moved away from the hospital zone but still use the white noise to sleep.

Insurrection is weird because it’s a Star Trek movie whose message is apparently anti-tech and anti-exploration. They should have called it Star Trek: The Amish Country.

These are Klingons we’re talking about.

Wouldn’t air travel account for more transcontinental passenger traffic than cars or trains?