Star Trek
Trek has been part of my life since I was an infant. I have bookcases full of Trek books. One of my tattoos is the Vulcan calligraphy for “kol-ut-shan” (IDIC). This is my home fandom.
I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.
— Surak, in “The Savage Curtain“, summarizing the philosophy of IDIC
Preparing for My New Office
Got myself a little “congrats on the new job and your first actual office” present to go on a bookshelf or my desk (y’know, once we’re moved in and I actually have furniture…right now, it’s just a bare office). 🖖
I’ve been eyeballing Eaglemoss’s Star Trek model ships line for a long time. I don’t have the funds or space to do the “collect the whole set” subscription, so I’m glad they also sell them individually so I could get this.
“NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.”
When one of the most effective and frightening villains of 1980s-era Trek is a collective without individuals, it’s not surprising that an inability to look beyond the individual to act in the interests of the common good is our biggest real-world barrier to dealing with Covid.
📚 50/2021: Chains of Command by Bill McCay and Eloise Flood ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
I really wish they had done this in First Contact.
📚 47/2021: Spartacus by Terry Mancour ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
📚 44/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Enterprise by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
📚 43/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Constitution by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
📚 42/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Republic by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
