As "Watchmen’s” character Rorschach would say when in deep thought:  “Hurm.”

Just in time for the no doubt extraordinarily lucrative “Star Trek” franchise reboot, the irascible Harlan Ellison is going after Paramount for money he says is owed to him on a 42-year-old episode of original TV series.

Pointy-eared peeps know that “City on the Edge of Forever”, penned by Ellison, starring Joan Collins and first aired on April 6, 1967, is regarded as one of the finest, if not the finest, voyage of the Starship Enterprise.

And hard-core fans will know that there’s long been controversy over who wrote what when and why.

The Alex Proyas-directed sci-fi thriller “Knowing” hit the top of the box office at the weekend, raking in $24.8M, which is pretty solid for an effects-driven feature made for just $50m.

I’ve no doubt that “Monsters vs. Aliens” is going to kick some serious box-office ass this weekend and probably have a long life beyond its opening bow.

The reasons are numerous -- the affability of voice talent like Seth Rogen and Reese Witherspoon, a simple, high-concept premise with broad-based appeal and, of course, DreamWorks cheerleader Jeffrey Katzenberg making himself available to anyone who’ll listen.

But why people will go, and why they’ll return, is the 3D.

While Twittering news events as they unfold has become increasingly
commonplace in the past few months, Sunday’s massive power failure in
Sydney became -- at least for those following on the social networking
Service -- less about gridlocked traffic and people stuck in elevators and
more about surviving a zombie apocalypse.

Anyone searching for actual information instead was hit with a meltdown of
tweets such as: