Book thirty-six of 2017: First Strike (Invasion! Book One), by Diane Carey. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Geekery
Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.
Book thirty-five of 2017: Dreams of Distant Shores, by Patricia A. McKillip. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Endeavor Award finalist)
Book thirty-four of 2017: Agent to the Stars, by John Scalzi. 🌟🌟🌟
Book thirty-three of 2017: Species, by Yvonne Navarro. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book thirty-two of 2017: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Actually finished a couple days ago, just remembered to take my post-book photo.)
Book thirty-one of 2017: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Actually finished a couple weeks ago, but was caught up in moving and forgot my post-book photo.)
The great things you find while cleaning out drawers for a move… #djwoody #djwüdi #thelostabby #gigsmusictheatre #anchorage #alaska #1990s #goth #industrial
Cleaning up Prairie’s old G4 #iMac to be given away. These were such adorably cute machines! And it’s fun to be using MacOS 10.4.11 again, with its stylish brushed chrome UI. Kind of sad to be letting this go, really, but we haven’t used it in six years, so it’s better to let it go in the downsizing.
First Full Star Trek: Discovery Trailer
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First thoughts (copied from a Facebook post, with minor edits):
Definitely looks good visually. I do like the look of the ship in the few glimpses we get. Expecting some snarky comparisons to both the Abramsverse (lens flare!) and Star Wars (blue-tinged holograms).
Grinned at the triplicate chirp of the communicator. Interesting “grid” effect for the transporter (which also sounds right).
Looks like they’re adopting the clear “window” style front viewscreens from the Abramsverse. The bridge is dark…definitely closer to the submarine-style look of ST:ENT or the traditional battle bridges, but not as cramped. One of the bridge crew looks like a Trek version of Lobot from Star Wars (a character on Bespin with a tech gadget wrapped around the back of his head).
Uniforms look okay, definitely expect to see that cosplay popping up pretty quickly. Everyone has the delta shield insignia on their chest, but I’m seeing at least two different symbols within (the starburst and the spiral), so perhaps they’re going with using those to signify departments, rather than ships/posts (as originally used), since everyone seems to have the same blue jumpsuit uniform. The delta shields also appear to be either in gold or silver…rank?
Not sure what I think about the new look for the Klingons just yet…very spiky outfits (seems they took design cues from Dracula’s armor in the Gary Oldman/Winona Ryder film), and the face/head look also looks much more similar to the Abramsverse take.
In addition to Sarek (and it’s weird thinking of James Frain as Sarek; my primary association with him is from The Tudors), we may get a glimpse of a young Spock (but that doesn’t seem right; as this is only 10 years pre-TOS, Spock wouldn’t be that young)?
The corridors do look right (silly thing, sure, but they do!).
Looks like we may be getting a glimpse of a Klingon funeral, complete with “everyone scream at the sky to usher the deceased to Sto-vo-kor” death ritual.
Some interesting very brief glimpses at aliens (including, um, Daft Punk?).
And it ends with the classic fanfare.
I’m looking forward to seeing more!
Book thirty of 2017: StarCraft: Evolution, by Timothy Zahn. 🌟🌟🌟
