Day 341: Another quiet weekend day. Finally got a chance to watch the first two episodes of the final season of Star Trek: Discovery, and the season looks to be off to a good start.
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Star Trek II Short Stories by William Rotsler
25/2024 – ⭐️⭐️
Six mediocre short stories set between the first and second films, each focusing on a different primary character. Nothing astounding here. The upside-down shot of the Enterprise on the cover is amusing, though.
Year 50 Day 340
Day 340: Not much to say about today. A quiet Saturday at home. Watched a couple movies. Not a whole lot else.
📚 Clarkesworld Issue 211 edited by Neil Clarke
24/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A particularly strong issue this month. I really enjoyed “The Lark Ascending” by Eleanna Castroianni, “An Intergalactic Smuggler’s Guide to Homecoming” by Tia Tashiro, “The Indomitable Captain Holli” by Rich Larson, “The Rambler” by Shen Dacheng, translated by Cara Healey, and “Occurrence at O1339” by Kelly Jennings.
Year 50 Day 339
Day 338: Just getting away from the computer for a few minutes and hanging out in the very ’70s/’80s institutional chic of our employee lounge/breakroom.
Year 50 Day 338
Day 338: An important part of my nightly duties — preparing our tea as we relax before going to bed.
Year 50 Day 337
Day 337: A shirt that came with me to con this year, but didn’t get worn (because it’s been worn at con the past few years, and while many of my shirts get worn every year, some of them do need to be rotated out every so often).
Year 50 Day 336
Day 336: Made it through my first day of work back in the real world! Not nearly as many fairies, aliens, Imperial Stormtroopers, or Starfleet officers, but I suppose these humans I work with are nice enough.
📚 Star Trek II Biographies by William Rotsler
23/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Something of a historical curiosity now, these “biographies” of the principal characters have since been nearly or entirely overwritten by later films or more official pseudo-canon works. Still, it’s a fun artifact of this point in Trek’s real-world history, and as the first published material giving Uhura’s first name of “Nyota”.
Year 50 Day 335
Day 335: I always take the Monday after con off so that I can rest and recover. I got a full normal night’s sleep plus an extra couple hours after my wife left for work, unpacked my suitcase and did laundry, made some con website and social media updates, and processed and posted the audio from the Thursday night dance. A nice low-key day to transition from the con world back into my normal routines.