If you watch the original series in Star Date order, Catspaw (season 2 episode with Checkov) occurs before Space Seed. http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWeplist-tos.html

xkcd: http://xkcd.com/331/

I don't think car analogies are needed here. :-) Does Microsoft have a monopoly on X-box? What about Sony and Playstations? Nintendo? Shouldn't they also be sued to open up the platform? They (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Apple) let others dev for the platform but they don't let anyone else build the hardware. Once you buy games for that platform you are locked in to that platform. If you move over you have to buy all your games again. Now if someone could figure out how to build the consoles cheaper... Assuming Pystar wins. Personally I wish Apple would just sell us a motherboard with a copy of OS X and an HCL. Maybe even say minimal Tech Support... Who wouldn't buy a $300 MB from them to put in a case?