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jwhouk:
Go for it.
And... May you live long, and prosper. ;)
EDIT: Side note - I can do the Vulcan salute without having to make like Nimoy and put my hands together off-screen.
GarandMarine:
Me too!
But yeah J just summed up every issue I've ever had with the Abrams reboot. It's a neat little sci fi action flick but it's not Star Trek. If Star Trek taught me anything growing up it was to hope. To approach life with an open, curious mind, to live with an explorer's courage and to be undaunted even in the darkest depths of the doldrums. To wonder. The assorted heroes of Star Fleet did not go out into the universe to make war, or return it if offered, but to offer peace, kinship and knowledge, and ask for the same in return. As J said, the triumph of the human spirit. A bright and glorious future wherein we, a species who has many dark days in our past. That is in fact the entire point of the first two episodes of TNG, Encounter at Farpoint. We as a species LITERALLY being put on trial for our past by the omnipotent Q. Maybe it is a bit of a generation gap thing on some level... I was introduced to TOS and TNG before I got out of the cradle so I probably don't count as Gareth and I are pretty close to being in the same cohort as well as the same generation, the Berlin Wall fell shortly after my birth, I never learned the fear that my parents had to live with as they grew up in the 60s and 70s... but I learned to look for something more from our future, and that's the vision Star Trek gave me.
jwhouk:
I think that's the major thing about it: TOS and TNG were written before the fall of the Berlin Wall. You who were born after 1990 have no idea what it was like, thinking that the world could conceivably end at any time, just because someone pushed a button.
Star Trek was a glimmer of hope through all this. We can get to the stars. We will get to the stars. We will explore new worlds; we will seek out new life forms, new civilizations - and befriend them, peacefully.
That was more important to us than anything: we will get through this. Sadly, it's something lacking in today's world.
Back to topic: you still have that Enterprise costume I recall seeing you in on the pictures thread, GM?
GarandMarine:
Hell yes! It's my favorite last day of con cosplay. Few things are more comfortable than a flight suit
My defense for the 2368 Type 2 phase pistol and comm badge? Time travel :mrgreen:
jwhouk:
Damn that Agent Daniels. ;)
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