>2346 Yeah, we're not above making Star Trek V: The Final
>Frontier references around here.

I found out not too long ago that Gene Roddenberry considered V wholly apocryphal. I can't really argue with that (I personally consider Voyager and Enterprise apocryphal, for various reasons, and even Brannon Braga, in a rare moment of taste, has stated that "Threshold," by far the worst episode of any Trek-branded series ever produced, is apocryphal). Still, it had its moments.

>2451 Azalynn, in fact, couldn't live on a vegetarian
>diet.

So Dantrovians are obligatory carnivores, like cats?

>2624 I think it's kind of charming, in an old-fashioned kind of
>way, that Scotty still calls Uhura "Uhura" when they're working. I
>mean, they're only married.

Is Uhura's first name even given in canon? I don't recall ever hearing it mentioned outside of novels (or novelizations of films). And, besides, I'd probably prefer calling her Uhura over Uhuru either way.

>3097 Qui-Gon Jinn does this at one point in The Phantom
>Menace, and for my money it's by far the spiffiest little bit of
>choreography in the film. I take nothing away from the big saber duel
>at the end when I say this; I just think the putting-away-the-saber
>thing is that cool.

I loved that too. It's one of the many reasons that the TPM fight is, in my mind, one of the two best saber duels in either trilogy (the other being the long duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan in RotS, both because of its stellar choreography and because of its emotional weight, and Ewan MacGregor managing to take what could have been very embarrassing dialogue and making it work damn well), and one of the things I did like about Road Movie to Naboo was its echoing of that same duel.

>3494 The UF interpretation of Master Windu may be influenced by
>other roles Samuel L. Jackson has played. Such as John Shaft.

I think that the canon version of Windu would have been helped considerably by this. Mr. Jackson, I'm sorry to say, doesn't do peaceful contemplative well at all; he seemed much more in his element and much more natural when he was being active and doing something (such as when the Jedi show up on Geonosis in AotC, or when they go to arrest Palpatine in RotS).

(In fact, I, my wife, and one of our good friends were discussing this problem last night over dinner, and said friend pointed out that Christopher Lee and Samuel L. Jackson should have had each other's roles.)

- Sean
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true.'"
-- Terry Pratchett, from _The Last Continent_