[Trek] Mirror, Mirror

[thefourthvine]

Mirror, Mirror won the poll handily, and is now appointed Lord High King of All Episodes TFV Should Watch after the Gay Sex One, the Robot Kirk One, and the One Where Everyone Is CreepyAnd the poll was right! Or the voters were, anyway. Mirror, Mirror is amazingly good. And it was educational for me; I never knew, before this, why people said

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[thefourthvine]

Oh, man, we learned those names, too. In seventh grade, when our teacher could not BEAR the topic of human bodies, we really had a lot of drug ed to make up the blank space in the curriculum, and we saw a lot of really, really bad movies and memorized a lot of bizarre names. (A girl from that class: "What is the point of this? Is it so I can buy drugs anywhere I go?" The funny part being that most of those names would not help her buy drugs, since they were known only to the DEA.) And, of course, the totally wrong drug information - that was a class highlight. I remember my father ranting at me, "How can they STILL be saying pot is a gateway drug? The problem is, you guys hear that, you look around and see that that's complete bullshit, and you STOP BELIEVING ANYTHING ANYONE SAYS." He was a big advocate of not believing anything anyone says, but he still thought it was stupid.

By ninth grade health class, of course, I had enough experience with - you know, substances of various kinds - that I knew what he meant. Our ninth grade health teacher wasn't stupid on the topic of drugs, but the book? And the movies that we HAD to watch? SO, SO STUPID, OMG.

[misspamela]

...how many health classes did you HAVE? I am so boggled by all these differences! We just had the one in 7th or 8th grade and then a three-month refresher in 10th that was mostly about death and dying and drugs.