But i won’t lie to you when I say as a kid growing up we pretended our sliding closet doors were star trek doors, we even made the noises PSHHHHHHHT.

As far as useless gadgets, I would have to say R2-D2. Think about it, every thing he did could have been incorporated into Threepio. The computer plugins, the scanners, all could have been Threepio. R2 was pretty much useless.

Bollocks; so you’re grinding over the rail instead of on it–big whup. You’d still be able to do almost every single trick, and at speeds more likely to cause grievous physical injury: win-win.

> Communicators. If Capt. Picard says, for example, “Picard to Worf,” only Worf hears it. How does the communicator know to only route the audio to Worf’s comm? All he does is tap his comm badge thing, says “Picard to x,” and only x hears it. I guess I could presume the comms are smart enough to understand the name that is spoken, and would then route the audio only to the comm assigned to that individual, but that would require at least a slight delay… And if I’m not mistaken, haven’t there been occasions when X was speaking to Y, and in mid-conversation, X or Y asks Z if he heard what was being said? And if Z is able to hear what X & Y said–without being included in the initial prompt, wouldn’t that presume that everyone can hear it? If so, wouldn’t we frequently hear chatter between individuals not on-camera?

> Phasers. Phasers set to “stun” will start a fire, or burn a hole in a substance, or cut through metal, etc., but the same setting will merely incapacitate a biological being. Bullshit.

> Those auto-opening doors. If you walk up to it (and it’s not locked), the door will open. After you walk though it, sometimes it closes immediately after you’ve passed the threshold, and sometimes it “knows” to stay open when a person on the other side of the opening is speaking to you as you’re walking away. And what about the fact that a locked door opens automatically when you say “Come,” or “Come in,” or “Enter,” etc., but if you don’t want the door to open but you want to say something to the person outside, speaking those words in your sentence doesn’t open the door.

I won’t even get into the cool-but-inconsistent-and-impossible universal translators…

On a side note, did anyone else ever wonder why the audio quality of the communications systems on Battlestar Gallactica sounds so horrible–worse than the audio quality of present-day communications devices?

And he didn´t even used a proper hoverboard if you recall griff ad the gang hoverboards, it was little girls hoverboard BASE if you remember correctly..barbie branded no less..

And yes ilya, the hoverboard is crucial to BTF II and even III… it seems that Matt don`t remembers the movies at all..

“It’s a penis extender. Wanna try?”

Really though, I’m mad you felt the need to bring Real Genius into this. We will have words.