It's crazy busy but I had to stop and do a drive-by posting just to say that I have a Star Trek documentary (For the Love of Spock) playing in the background and while listening to it, it struck me that the older I get, the more I love Dr. McCoy.

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Yesterday I got to wondering if vampires lack a reflection because mirrors are backed with silver and if that's the case, would they be reflected in, say, a bronze mirror? (This is where "that annoy my husband" comes in - I mentioned it to him and got a peevish "I don't know!" in return. I wasn't really asking if he knew the answer, just thinking ( Read more... )

There seems to be more to-do this year than there was 5 years ago on Star Trek's 50th anniversary - probably because there's more new Star Trek. (In fact, 5 years ago I don't think there was any new Star Trek.)

Five years ago I made a window display of my Star Trek stuff for the public library. There are several photos so...

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It's been interesting watching the original Star Trek against the background of everything that's been going on in the past few months because so many episodes seem applicable to current events. (It was designed that way - for current events in the 1960s. But even though it was written in the 1960s, it's so often still applicable today ( Read more... )

When I was 15, I had a crush on Scotty for quite awhile, even though Spock was my favorite character (and still is). As I've been watching the original Star Trek, I'm realizing that I still do have kind of a crush on Scotty. Huh. Is that weird? Is Scotty crushworthy? Back then, he was way too old for me but now I'm 10 years older than he was in the ( Read more... )

I'm watching Star Trek in order, beginning with Enterprise, and am almost through with Season 2 of the original series (which I'm watching in production order this time rather than air date order). Last night I watched A Piece of the Action. It's been awhile and I'd forgotten how much I like this episode and how funny it is. Captain Kirk is having ( Read more... )

I was reading about rotation and centrifugal force this morning (in Astrophysics for People in a Hurry) and there was a reference to figure skaters increasing the speed of their spin by pulling their arms in - and it got me wondering if a Vulcan might find figure skating interesting from a scientific point of view. And then I got to wondering if ( Read more... )

I've known James Doohan was from Canada for decades - at least 40 years. What I didn't know and just found out today is that Sarnia, Ontario was his hometown. I've been to Sarnia! Not since I was about 12, but I've been there a few times. A trip to Sarnia when I was around 7 was my first trip outside the USA. (In fact, Canada is the only "foreign" ( Read more... )

I'm surprised I don't have a million posts titled Star Trek! Anyway, Irish has been watching the Star Trek movies during the day so I've been seeing chunks of them before and after work. I will never not love those movies. This time, though, it's been making me a little sad to realize how many of the actors in each one are no longer with us. There ( Read more... )

I haven't talked about Leonard Nimoy's death to anyone in "real life", except to mention it to a friend at work and to my husband, both of whom thought it was sad, but that's it. I don't know how to express to people outside fandom why his death makes me sad for more than just a few minutes or how a character he played almost 50 years ago has meant ( Read more... )