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http://io9.com/5721854/ralph-mcquarries-lost-concept-art-for-a-star-trek-movie-in-1976+1977/gallery/

The artwork is neat and all, but it just whispers wrong, wrong to me. It's like Star Trek with a weird accent. It's got Ralph McQuarrie's fingerprints all over it - that is, looks like Star Wars (which, don't get me wrong, I like), and that's where this kind of thing belongs, I think. This transplantation of visual style (Star Trek "should" look very different) is striking my eyeballs like some kind of mad scientist hybrid creature.

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Sometimes I feel like flying away with the crows.

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busyhead highthing says:
The Morrow book of new words: 8500 terms not yet in standard dictionaries
c. 1982 (apparently the previous ed. of Webster's was 1967)
includes things that to me seem bizarre, such as binary star, dopamine, and kiloton
meson
LOL, "Proposition 13"
"the name of the game"
"shuttle service" (wtf?)