Sad about Hoover; he was practically considered a saint in some parts of the world for the relief work he organized after World War I, but now he's The President Who Caused The Great Depression.
I'll always have a soft spot for the holophoner, as it's probably the only time, ever, that any television program has paid homage to Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels.
They wouldn't even have to use any fancy energy weapons. Just drop a couple of big-enough asteroids in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and let the resulting tsunamis do the rest.
I'd have to vote for the aliens from ending of the Original Series episode Catspaw, played by a couple of painfully weak marionettes. Mercifully, they were only on screen for a few seconds.
Various possibilities: 1. It's a crossover event. 2. A comment on the long-running trekkie joke that if you played an extra in the original Star Trek series and wore a Red Shirt, you tended to die in some horrible fashion. 3. There actually was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Conspiracy") where this type of parasitic critter burst out of a guy's chest and got phasered to oblivion by Picard and Riker; probably the goriest scene the show ever did. And yes, the victim was wearing a red shirt.
One of the Team America creators once commented to the effect that if he had to choose between his mother being executed by terrorists, or his going through the production of another movie with marionettes, he would sacrifice his mother without hesitation.
When this was posted over on Boingboing, there was a very vocal minority that hated the idea of this happening. I just hope that trombones can be disassembled for travel.
1. It's a crossover event.
2. A comment on the long-running trekkie joke that if you played an extra in the original Star Trek series and wore a Red Shirt, you tended to die in some horrible fashion.
3. There actually was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Conspiracy") where this type of parasitic critter burst out of a guy's chest and got phasered to oblivion by Picard and Riker; probably the goriest scene the show ever did. And yes, the victim was wearing a red shirt.