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I recall once having read that most of the star systems in the Milky Way galaxy are multiple (binary, trinary, etc.) star systems. In any event, binary star systems are extremely common in our galaxy. Thus, calling any battle the "Battle at the Binary Stars" would be about as uninformative as callin...

The idea of a heartbeat giving away someone when there have to be pumps and other mechanical devices going on even after they turn off the engines never made sense to me, even as a kid. Yeah, I mean: Didn't they have self-flushing urinals and such that periodically flush themselves, and other noise...

3) Did the Miri virus affect Spock? I don't remember, and I have no desire to watch this episode again. However, if it did [...] The episode clearly established, in spoken dialog, that Spock was merely a "carrier" - i.e., he would not develop any symptoms, but carried the pathogen in his bloodstrea...

Gary Mitchell was said to be unusually strong in ESP even before he got his crazy god powers; it was stated in his episode that the Federation conducted tests on humans who demonstrated ESP, but we never saw it. If you freeze-frame the shots of them looking at the c.v.s of Gary Mitchell and Dr. Deh...

Except that’s exactly what it does. Star Trek’s own internal rules of time travel state that travelers are protected from the changes they make, as are those who are in some way temporally shielded. Otherwise, changes made are *immediate*, no Back to the Future slow fade-outs, and there is only one...

[...] the obsession Trelane had with Earth is kinda annoying both because there are probably far more warlike species (if he just wants a straight warrior culture he'd probably love the Klingons or Hirogen more then humanity [...] and plays into the TOS problem of Earth being special. [...] Accordi...

...then the abduction of Amilia Earhart or the rape of Kim's mum would require something like warp 9.9999 I'll grant you the part about A. Earhart - but there are two obvious and logical explanations for the rape of Kim's mother being carried out in a believable manner (as told in their lie to the ...

Was this the first episode to explicitly feature the universal translator? It was the first and only TOS episode to actually show the Universal Translator as a piece of hand-held hardware for onscreen communication between two entities who would otherwise be unable to even resort to "sign language"...