In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, The Enterprise (NCC-1701) is not refitted because at 20 years old, it is radically out of date.
The most recent Enterprise, CVN-65 was decommissioned after FIFTY ONE years.
A fun thing about interstates is people from other cities saying “you’ve never experienced traffic like on XYZ road” and XYZ road is one you use every day.
I’ve had this conversation in LA and Chicago.
Watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture and encountered an interesting dilemma: I can recognize that these are miniatures but I can also recognize that they're supposed to be something big. Lacking the presence of something recognizable, I'm completely unable to discern scale.
Kinda disappointed by season 3 of The Bear but very amused to be watching the finale like "Oh I read that guy's book! Oh and his too! Oh and also that guy's!"
I have reached the point in my consumption that I have an alarm set for midnight *in a different time zone* in order to put a *deposit* on a restaurant reservation ten weeks from now.