Ashes of 'Star Trek' actor grounded by dud rocket
Unlike Scotty, who told Captain James T. Kirk in a Scottish accent, "She'll launch on time and she'll be ready," the US Department of Defense engineers involved with the rocket mission needed more time to sort out engine problems, Chafer said.
Speaking of Star Trek ... I never really liked the show but liked the movies a bit. But, the other night someone was watching a DVD of the pilot episode of The Next Generation that got me thinking. The idea of the whole franchise is pretty cool. It's futuristic but not ridiculous ... it's a future that we could work towards. Not that it's all good, but the idea of common interstellar travel is very cool. I would thoroughly enjoy me some space travel. Strong Bad too.
2 comments:
I strongly reccomend the Babylon 5 series, as opposed to Star Trek. The creator, Joe Michael Strazinsky (sp?), is a 'former' Catholic, which in this case translates into his being actually Catholic and having a very Catholic veiw of life and human nature, but pretending he's not Catholic.
In any case, B5 is a lot of fun, and instead of taking the route of Star Trek, and pretending like religion will die out, and everybody will be able to get along in the utopian future, people are still real people, and religion is still around and a big part of people's lives. There's actually a group of Catholic monks that live on the space station, Babylon 5. And also, instead of stand-alone episodes with the same cast of characters, the entire 5 year plot of B5 is one continual storyline with loads of characters and problems and development weaved in and out constantly. It's like a Russian novel set in space. Not perfect, of course, but one of the finer things to come out of TV.
Hmmm ... cool. Good points about religion on Star Trek. I'll have to check out that show. I never got into it when it was on TV.
Post a Comment