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DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations" episode pokes fun at Klingon differences in a lighthearted and humorous manner. Worf's comical explanation of the Klingon-Tribble War adds levity to tackling Star Trek lore within the crossover. Deep Space Nine skillfully addresses Klingon oddities through witty dialogue, honoring Tos history with a comedic touch.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's crossover episode with Star Trek: The Original Series pointed out 2 weird things about Klingons. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 5, episode 6, "Trials and Tribble-ations", the Bajoran Orb of Time unexpectedly sends Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the USS Defiant crew back to 105 years earlier in the Star Trek timeline. Against the backdrop of Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 15, "The Trouble With Tribbles", Sisko's crew must prevent Klingon spy Arne Darvin (Charlie Brill) from assassinating Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), while dealing with the USS Enterprise's historical Tribble infestation.

Paul Schrader’s Hardcore is one of the writer-director’s most unabashedly autobiographical films. The opening montage of winter in Grand Rapids, Michigan, contains shots of the street where he grew up, his family members, and places he worked. Schrader has also mentioned in interviews that George S. Scott’s Calvinist furniture manufacturer, Jake Van Dorn, is an equivocal portrait of his father.

That entire sequence is shot through with ambivalence. The Van Dorn clan is depicted with warmth and hominess, but there are cracks evident in the facade: the disapproving comments about modern media; the passive-aggressive way in which the emotionally distant Jake talks down to a female employee; and the absence of a presiding maternal figure.

When his daughter, Kristen (Ilah Davis), inexplicably goes missing on a church trip to California, Jake is determined to track her down with the help of Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a morally...