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[Nate the Great]

More random Star Trek Pinterest links:

Someone dressed the Mona Lisa in a TOS miniskirt uniform.

Paintings of the TOS cast in Napoleonic uniforms.

The Peanuts cast as the TNG cast.

Charlie Brown as Picard, Linus as Wesley, Franklin as Geordi, Peppermint Patty as Tasha, Pigpen as Worf, Lucy as Deanna, Little Red-Haired Girl (or Heather if you insist) as Beverly, Snoopy as Data, Woodstock as Spot, and Schroeder as Riker.

[Nate the Great]

30 Student Hacks You'd Wish You'd Known Sooner

It's amazing what you can do with binder clips and plastic bottles (among many other things you have around your house).

[Nate the Great]

The Daily Dot's list of nine Klingon episodes to watch before Discovery

TOS: Errand of Mercy, The Undiscovered Country
TNG: Heart of Glory, Sins of the Father, The Emissary, Reunion
DS9: The Way of the Warrior, The Sword of Kahless, Once More Unto the Breach
VOY: Barge of the Dead

My reaction? Ditch Heart of Glory, Sword of Kahless, and Barge of the Dead and substitute Redemption and Birthright. How about you guys?

[Flying Gremlin]

ENT: "Affliction" and "Divergence" is something that I would want to show, along with "Judgment". Probably the latter more than the other two, as it talks about how the warrior ethos has take over Klingon society and shows how the Klingons view outsiders from their perspective.

"Heart of Glory" should be included, as it was actually a more in-depth intro to anything Klingon psychologically. Everything afterwards just refines this knowledge. Agreed on the other two, though "Barge of the Dead" can be valuable due to the fact that it is Gre'thor and the Klingon value of afterlife they discuss at length...

[Nate the Great]

The list of essential Klingon episodes made me ask a similar question about Romulan episodes.

A discussion on Quorra yields Balance of Terror, the Defector, In the Pale Moonlight, The Enterprise Incident, Unification, Face of the Enemy, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, and The Enemy

I disagree with In The Pale Moonlight, it's not really a "Romulan episode", just an episode that has Romulans in it.

A reddit thread yields:

TOS: Balance of Terror, The Enterprise Incident
TNG: The Defector, Unification
DS9: In The Pale Moonlight, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (again, the Romulan culture was completely incidental in these two episodes, DS9 really didn't use the Romulans as anything other than plot devices)
VOY: Message in a Bottle (it could've been any antagonistic TNG race, the Romulans were plot devices again)

As a side not-quite-PNQ: Can you think of another way the Romulans could've been used besides as generic antagonists or "evil Vulcans"?

[Nate the Great]

This month is the 20th Anniversary of Goldeneye 64

Ugh. Even though I still have a copy of this game, it makes me feel old to stumble upon this factoid.

Did You Know Gaming covers a bit of background

Some fans create a sketch based on the premise that Goldeneye has been updated with lifelike graphics.

Speedruns courtesy of Speed Demos Archive

[NAHTMMM]

http://www.the-record-collector.com/Picture_Discs.htm
http://www.colourlovers.com/craft/bl...-vinyl-records

"Picture discs" are vinyl records that feature images on the area where the music is recorded. Wikipedia mentions:

One picture disc was even billed as a genuine "live album." Made as a demonstration for Stevie Wonder's Journey through the Secret Life of Plants, it featured a layer of blotting paper between the clear vinyl layers that contained alfalfa seeds. A tag of the blotting paper protruded below the record, and resting the disc on a glass of water with the paper in the water allowed the seeds to germinate and grow inside the record. When the prototype was taken through customs in Canada it was seized by the Department of Agriculture, making it not only the only real live album but the only record ever banned by the Department of Agriculture (alfalfa being a prohibited import).

Which is uncited, or I would have put this in the Amazing Things thread.