Ghost of a flea

Kyool! Balance of Terror is my favourite episode, as well. I like the new Catspaw castle.

The ship entering orbit in the new opening sequence is nice; I would imagine they did a lot of work on that subject in many episodes - entering orbit, leaving orbit, ... there were a few scenes with the ship coming toward the camera/moving up while in orbit but it appears to be moving in a straight line upwards. I'd be interested to see how they might have treated those scenes. As well, those scenes where there were blue phaser blasts that lit up the whole scene; I'm sure all that's attended to.

But, have they enhanced the Orion slavegirl? (I'm talking about her skin colour!)

Despite my growing skepticism of all things Trek, I will say that those updates are gorgeous and very much in the spirit of the show.

Whereas the Lucasian habit is to take an old classic, jam some thematically inappropriate new stuff on top, and claim it is just as good -- or better -- than the old one. Not unlike hastily slapping a jarring Postmodern monstrosity on top of a classic Romanesque Revival building.

Mike: Updated Orion slavegirl... hmmm...

Chris: I think the Royal Ontario Museum is very interesting and I had not thought of Lucas or Libeskind in the same frame before. That said, I am actually quite pleased with that exploding crystal. It opens the Museum up to a stretch of Bloor that has been a bit Death Star trench for decades and I think it does so without compromising the original facade and sight-lines along University/Avenue Rd., particularly now the condo tower has been nixed.

Oh my oh my oh my...

My part is all a quiver with delight at this.

And don't you DARE tell me that my nom de plume was lifted from "The Squire of Gothos" or I'll verball abuse you over at Alans place.

My wife's fav ep is Devil in thedark so she will be pleased.

I'll give you hte red dwarfs - and the purple ones, too - but toggle switches are so 2260. What I don't understand is how a focused ray of pure energy in empty space is supposed to give off an illuminating glow that can light up the ship. Where do the deflections of photons come from?

And I just want to confirm that I don't know my place.

Were these lasers, Alan, you would be quite correct. Without a light-scattering medium (an atmosphere, dust, etc.) or ambient gas to be heated into a light-emitting plasma, laser-weapons would be invisible in space. Enterprise, however, is armed with phaser weapons which emit nadion-beams, nadions being sub-atomic particles which are, amongst their other qualities, light-emitting.

Please refer to Memory Alpha for details.

"Phaser" is an acronym for PHASed Energy Rectification. All phasers release an energy beam. Personal phasers can stun or kill an enemy. The stun setting can also be used for crowd control. Ship-mounted phasers can damage shields or other systems or even cut a vessel's hull.

Phasers are based on the Rapid Nadion Effect, whereby energy is passed through a special phaser crystal resulting in a discharge of short-lived nadion particles (often the detection of nadion discharges is a key sign that a battle has recently taken place).

In property law, the easement is characterized by the subservient tenement and the dominant one, the owner of the latter being the one able to walk on the land the former at their own will. Your superior knowledge again bests me.

You're so cool brewster.

Flea, I am impressed.