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A Love Letter to Star Trek

This is too soon to write this. I should wait a few months, maybe a year, take time and cof­fee and dreams and let it fin­ish whirling around my neural net. But Star Trek is all about the tem­po­ral anom­alies so here I sit. One year and a cou­ple months ago, on Star Date something-or-other, my

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When my youngest son, Mar­tin, chased gap-toothed girls through a dusty school­yard, he car­ried a tiny Star Trek shut­tle­craft in the front pocket of his jeans. “Vroooooooooom! Ba-ba-ba-ba-bing! Bing!” The shut­tle­craft — tor­pe­dos armed and ready — made the noise of a boy’s pursed lips. It flew grace­ful arcs, one hand over head, around body, swooped

The Day Scotty Saved the Future

James Doohan died yes­ter­day. My two young boys would tell you he played “Scotty” on the Star Trek orig­i­nal series. They would tell you he ruled the Engi­neer­ing depart­ment, car­ried more brains and guts than tools, and knew how to mas­sage life into fad­ing dilithium crys­tals. They would tell you how he saved the Enter­prise