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In One’s Own Universe

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Hey Kids,

Video on demand is today’s reality.

The days of waiting for your seasonal favorites is a thing of the past. You can watch nearly anything at any time. Binge watching is the thing to do. Don’t wait week by week to see your favorite show, wait till the season is over and watch all the episodes in a row. Or the entire series.

I recently discovered that one of my favorite series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is available on Amazon Prime. And I began watching a few episodes, from the beginning. I guarantee I’ll watch them all.deep-space-nine-concept-sheet-1

I do enjoy Star Trek and enjoy discussing warp cores, Enterprise captains, and space-time continuum at length with fellow Trekies. In fact, discussion such as these makes one feel kind of, well, smart.

However, when you start to watch these shows with a Star Trek Gentile, and you spend way too much time explaining Bajoran/Cardassian politics and how it relates to the Federation and the newly found worm hole; you end up feeling a little bit silly.

 

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Phaser Chicken or Blaster Egg

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Hey Kids,

I grew up with lasers. So to speak.

The idea of phasers, disrupters, blasters, warp cores, and hyper-drives have been a lifetime reality for me. Sort of.

The idea of these things are as much a reality as oxygen. I can’t really see them, but I know they must be there. And always have for as long as I can remember.EC76 5806 9/17/76 Dr. Fletcher and Star Trek actors at Enterprise rollout

Yet man’s first walk on the moon happen during my lifetime. I remember the first digital watches, the first calculator, the brick cell phones, VCR’s as big as a suitcase, the internet superhighway, and the first time I heard the term of a “site” and asked if that was what they called these “places” on the World Wide Web. I remember the first time I read that wireless technology was being referred to by some as “Wi-Fi”.

It makes me wonder, did we come up with all these things because we had accepted the fact that they existed before they ever did, or would we have just come up with them anyway?

I like to think that anything is possible if it can be imagined.

That is of course, if it’s worthy of the effort to “make it so”.

 

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