I had to look this up because I didn't remember a Gormagander from Hitchhikers.... that thing looks like like they Tuvix'd a blobfish and an uncircumsized penis.
He was experimenting with transwarp technology used by the Borg. I mentioned this in another comment but I think the reason he lizard-ified was because he didn't have a Borg transwarp conduit to reduce the infinite probability down to a finite point in space. Thats how the Borg were able to travel nearly instantaneously across entire quadrants of space without turning into mecha-lizards. Like you said, it's silly if you try to think about it too much.
Wow, McDonalds gave out VHS copies? That must have cost them a pretty penny compared to the things they give out now! Not McDonalds, but I still remember being excited when I got a VHS in the mail with a 10 minute trailer for the Nintendo rumble pack that had Sega and Sony (I think?) "torturing" Nintendo for information.
I believe it, the 90s were a wild time for digital media. I remember the grocery store having a stand full of $10 computer games, which is how I found Raptor: Call of the Shadows.
I'm talking more like the Windows ME/XP days to be honest. But too many to count. It's more that actually useful features that used to be fairly standard (like 7-segment status displays and speakers) are effectively being gated behind $500+ motherboards to make them more attractive. A board that would have come with alphanumeric status codes now is lucky to ship with a couple LEDs that just indicate where a problem is at, not what the specific problem is.
Yeah for sure. Just re-read the MA page on warp factor and, apparently, warp 10 is also the transwarp threshold. I wonder if this is why the Borg need transwarp conduits to reduce that infinite probability down to a single point in space.
The in-universe explanation for part of this is that Starfleet re-factored the warp scale sometime between the 23rd and 24th century. As for the Enterprise, idk blame Q or The Traveler. I don't think they ever exceeded warp 9.x with conventional warp engines though.
Might have some milk, but when I went overseas a milk shake was literally milk with crushed ice blended intop a drink.