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How can you be intimidated by information you yourself make accessible?

There will be no boycott this year? Is this thing going to be safer than a Sony CD?

Depends on what your definition of a "normal person" is.

Except that a lot of the ships (and station itself) *have* been redone for the 2007 stories. And I'm pretty sure the people that made the amateur videos would be happy to give them the models.

An amateur redid parts of a battle from DS9 in HD, and was asked by someone from Foundation Imaging to contact him (don't remember where I've read this). DS9 also used motion control for the ships, which makes it even harder, and it could be possible to do it.

http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/...

Since B5 was entirely CGI, it would be easier. If the morons at WB didn't insist to have a 16:9 format for the DVDs, it would look so much better than blowing and cropping the CGI stuff.

http://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold...

In fact, the episode previews on the DVDs look *so much* better, even on a big screen...

"So how are you supposed to see [black holes]?" - Holly

You don't "see" a black hole with your eyes. Use your detectamotron to look for energy with a wavelength of 10^12 mHz and they'll show up quite clearly.

Or you can look for starlight that is being bent around the hole, because gravity bends starlight.

I guess the original TNG set was *intentionally* destroyed by Paramount in the making of Generations? I actually didn't know that. Here's a little paragraph explaining. If anyone has a bit more info, let me know.

http://movies.trekcore.com/generations/behindthescenes.html (see "Brent Spiner also comments on filming the saucer crash scene:" section)

I'm actually surprised a set would be usable as a destroyed starship set. You'd think the cheap, fake plastic parts would be obvious on screen?

Not at all. Actually, it explains a lot.

Star Trek fans will know that this 'Class M' planet is basically Remus. Impossibly hot (and probably irradiated) on one side, perpetually dark on the other. Would make for some very strange human colonists, they would have huge eyes in deep sockets, a deep, gravelly voice and a general appearance like this: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/nemesis/ch8/nemesis209.jpg :P

Iconians used that as well. :-)

A multi-story, round room with a bridge in the center used to display 3-dimensional scientific data? Where have I seen this concept before?

They did occasionally refer to the present as the Xth century, though.

Worf: "Has the Tong dropped it's shields?"
Tactical Officer: "No, sir."
Worf: "Very well. Fire all phasers."
K'Temoc: "Wait! Lower the shields. I yield command of the Tong to you, Captain Worf. Long live the Klingon Empire!"
Worf: "A wise decision, Captain. Commander K'ehleyr will board your vessel and take command. The Klingon cruiser Prang will soon arrive and escort you home. And Captain?"
K'Temoc: "Yes?"
Worf: "Welcome to the 24th century."

Which actually doesn't make that much sense if you think about it, since why would two Klingons use a human calendar when speaking to each other? The elegant solution to this problem, of course, is not to think about it too much.