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With this post, I’ve posted every day for an entire year. That’s right. The last day that I didn’t post was May 1, 2021. Before that, I was last discussing Key Lime Kit Kat bars.
No wonder I stopped.
This blows away my current record streak.
Since and including April 8, I've missed only June 16, so 105 posts in 106 days with the next 7 already queued up to go and one more I'll be writing tonight. But the current streak is 36, and my current record is … 69. 😉 #bloggingmania
— Rob Bodine, #Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) July 22, 2020
Nice.
But wait a second. Is this even real? Can the post announcing that I’ve posted every day for a year be the anniversary post itself?
I say yes, and if you disagree, just keep in mind that I posted a bonus post on April 9, April 13, April 19, and April 25, so there have already been over 365 posts in this time without this one. There may have even been a couple more bonus posts, but I’m too lazy to look.
On another note, today is the first day of May. May is hockey playoffs, college lacrosse playoffs, preparations for the summer, and — most importantly — the month when all the cool people are born. Plus, I was born in May.
So, in 11 days, the streak will die. I want to focus on other things, and consistency hasn’t led to a large number of non-spam followers. Rarely does anyone retweet the tweets linking to these posts (likes merely gauge your footprint, not increase it), and almost all comments occur on other social media platforms, so my streak hasn’t done anything to improve my online footprint (except for a brief moment). Besides, many of my recent posts have been rather lame. If I didn’t have something to say, I’d write anyway, and it shows. I have a few more posts scheduled for this week, some others in my head that will come soon, and a handful scheduled to publish as far out as December. However, going forward, if I don’t have something to say, I won’t say anything. I’ll never feel rushed, and anything goofy will have to be funny enough to be worth sharing.
Going forward, Sundays are lazy for me. I either post something silly or other people’s work. Usually both. Today, it’s explaining myself, then picking a fight.
I’ll start. From left to right:
1st Edition AD&D and 4th Edition D&D Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike and William Shatner’s James Tiberius Kirk
Dungeons & Dragons is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast, LLC, who neither contributed to nor endorsed the contents of this post. (Okay, jackasses?) Shadowrun and Pathfinder are also trademarks, but I have no reason to believe their lawyers are jackasses.
Sundays now are lazy days for me. I either post something silly or other people’s work. Usually both. Today, it’s nothing silly, but it’s someone else’s work.
I ran across a story dispelling the misconception that Kirk and Uhura’s kiss on Star Trek was the first interracial kiss on television. The writing is hardly academic, always looking to qualify every sentence with the sentiment, “It shouldn’t matter!” which is obvious to everyone. In doing so, the author dilutes the importance of that kiss. Not only was it an important moment in television history, but also an important moment in United States history, taking the next significant step. TV shows can’t often pull that off, but this is Star Trek I’m talking about.
The Renaissance Faire was a major part of my young adulthood. My family used to go to the one in Crownsville, MD every year. The impetus was my father, who was a well-read student of history. He’d go there and discuss “current events” with the actors. To their credit, they did fairly well, though they couldn’t out-history him.
I haven’t been there in a long time, but I consider it every year. a It’s ironic that we went as a family considering that I was a victim of the Satanic Panic, and here we were doing something reminiscent of the source of that panic. Well, if I do go again, and the opportunity presents itself (c’mon nerds!), I’ll be ready to add to the irony by adding my favorite intellectual property to the mix (something for which I was similarly ridiculed).
I really wish names weren’t obscured. Everyone deserves to receive credit for their ideas.
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Sundays now are lazy days for me. I either post something silly or other people’s work. Usually both. Today, it’s proof that claymation can produce drama.
Sundays are now lazy days for me. Going forward, I’m just going to re-post other people’s work or just do something silly. Today it’s my own work, but it’s work I’ve already done. I went a little nuts today, creating my own, ridiculous spin on a Facebook post. I posted a handful of nerdy limericks, referencing Star Trek, Star Wars, the MCU, the DCEU, and Lord of the Rings. Each one has a Twitter hashtag of #NerdLimericks, so you can just click here to see them all. If I, or anyone else, adds more, they show up using that same link. The complete URL is: https://twitter.com/hashtag/NerdLimerick?src=hashtag_click.
Just for good measure, here are direct links to just a few of them. Retweet them all and share your own!
There once was a doctor who happened. To be best friend was his space captain. Kirk asked him to sing. With an old southern ring. "Dammit, I'm a doctor, not Clapton."#StarTrek#NerdLimerick
— Rob Bodine, Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) December 6, 2020
There once was a god-boy named #Thor. It seemed all he wanted was more. He was stripped of his magic. Which he thought of as tragic. His conceit wasn't ever shown the door.#MCU#NerdLimerick@chrishemsworth
— Rob Bodine, Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) December 6, 2020
There once were five silly fools. Who seemed like nothing but tools. They banded as one. Saved the Galaxy with fun. Before long, MCU they did rule.#MCU#GotG#NerdLimerick
— Rob Bodine, Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) December 6, 2020
There once was a robot inception. With cruelty, murder, deception. New emotions surfaced. That gave her a purpose. Hers is the greatest redemption.#MCU#GotG#Nebula#NerdLimerick@karengillan
— Rob Bodine, Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) December 6, 2020
There once was a farmboy named Luke. Who whined so much I could puke. But his destiny was key For all to be free. Or at least claimed some older kook.#StarWars#NerdLimerick
— Rob Bodine, Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) December 6, 2020
There once was a boy without family. Who couldn't seem to live life happily. A wizard fixed things. With the help of lightning. Though not without bits of calamity.#Shazam#NerdLimerick#DCEU
— Rob Bodine, Attorney by Day, #Nerd by Day & Night (@GSLLC) December 6, 2020
Sundays are now lazy days for me. Going forward, I’m just going to re-post other people’s work or just do something silly. Today, however, it’s serious. Neil DeGrasse Tyson and other assorted space scientists always caution us about the “unknown unknown” perils of space travel. This is an example of such a peril. Who could possibly have anticipated this?
At least now we know to look for space rabbits. You’re welcome.
Sundays are now lazy days for me. Going forward, I’m just going to re-post other people’s work or just do something silly. Today, it’s using Deepfake to swap the Original Series actors into 2009+ Star Trek.
Another day; another Star Trek film. For an intellectual property that prides itself on continuity, there are a hell of a lot of logical errors in their scripts. Remember, I can criticize the things I love.
“For Gene Roddenberry” 😦
So, Sulu finally gets his command. I’d like to believe he hand-picked Janice Rand for her assignment, but I know that probably isn’t true. She was already assigned as of Star Trek III. However, according to the novelization for Star Trek III, Sulu was getting ready to take command of the Excelsior, so he may have picked that entire bridge crew.
I’d assume that they would have made a more durable form of teacup by now in much the same way they replaced polymers with transparent aluminum.
How many times are these guys going to come out of retirement.
None of this makes sense. The destruction of a single planet, even the home world, shouldn’t destroy a planetary government. Even assuming the Klingons fall in line, mothballing Starfleet would leave the Federation vulnerable to numerous other enemies.
Valeris was supposed to be Saavik, but Roddenberry was worried that turning the popular character into a traitor would anger some of her fans.
Am I the only one that interprets Spock’s approach to Valeris as, “Boy, if I were only 20 years younger”?
I still love the Klingon D-7 ship design.
Why is the Chancellor in a single, unescorted ship? Doesn’t that seem suspicious? There must be some (other) cloaked ships nearby.
Chang is an unusual name for a Klingon.
The objection to “inalienable rights” was stupid, and the universal translator should have assured that the correct meaning of “alien” was translated.
McCoy should understand Klingon anatomy.
Clarence “Red” Boddicker has come a long way since his days in Wisconsin and Los Angeles.
Seeing the Romulan ambassador ran a sore point into the ground. The Romulans were always my favorite Star Trek villains, and they were conspicuously left out of this entire series of Original Series movies, cloaking Klingon ships and references to Romulan ale notwithstanding. That’s such a shame.
That Klingon proposed attacking the Federation while the Federation President’s communication line was still open.
Christopher Plummer was great.
Klingon rules of evidence really suck. For example, if someone speculates, you’re not allowed to offer an alternative possibility because that would be unlawful speculation. What? That’s dumb.
If they throw people out of Rura Penthe from the main gate, and it’s cold enough to kill you in a minute or so, then there should be a lot of preserved bodies lying around.
Why is there a store of phasers in the kitchen?
So, all bats from Tiberia are vampiric? I didn’t know that.
That’s a strange place for genitals, but even if it makes sense, every species develops an instinct to protect them. This guy practically led with his knees. He might as well have had a “kick me” sign on them.
That’s right. Keep Christian Slater in the dark.
Is that a smile on Valeris’s face when she pins the gravity boot to the locker door?
Kirk was still wearing a “veridian patch” that allowed him to be tracked by Spock. Did they not search him before putting him in prison? Where are his prison clothes?
“I can’t believe I kissed you.” “Must’ve been your lifelong ambition.”
Bravo, Shatner, for being able to make fun of yourself.
This is the first time I noticed that there was no segregation between men and women in crew’s quarters.
A forced mind meld raises all sorts of ethical issues. Those issues have been raised in Star Trek on a few occasions. Here, it seemed a trivial choice, though some seemed to appreciate the ethical dilemma as it unfolded.
More self-awareness from Shatner, but in character. He appreciates how his approach (rushing in) was too extreme and was well-balanced by Spock’s opposing approach (logic). The strength of society is that we are not homogeneous. I wish more of us understood that, as much as we frustrate each other, we need each other.
A lot of people are sweating profusely, both in space and on the ground.
All that Shakespeare is fitting for Christopher Plummer but overdone for General Chang.
It’s fitting that the dining room was blown to bits by one of Chang’s torpedoes.
For a missile focusing in on a stationary target, that torpedo sure took a weird route to get there.
The explosion of Chang’s ship is used again for the explosion of Lursa and B’etor’s ship in Star Trek Generations. As Kessel Junkie referenced yesterday, Generations was the last Star Trek film where they recycled footage from prior films.
They took the ridiculous slow clap and somehow made it even more ridiculous. John Shuck and those freaky, yellow aliens had weird ways of clapping.
It didn’t take long for the new Enterprise to be decommissioned.
Again, Spock understands colorful metaphors. Because this is essentially the end of the original crew’s tenure in the Star Trek universe, they ended with the casts’ signatures. Avengers: Endgame would later borrow that idea (along with all the others they borrowed).
I’m taking a break from this series (unless tomorrow’s post counts) to do some other things. I’ll get to the Next Generation era films soon enough.
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