Happy 40th

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

So today is the 40th anniversary of airing of the first episode of Star Trek.  Given that I am only 37, I have seen all the episodes as reruns.  In fact, right before I sat down to write this entry, I was watching The Trouble With Tribbles.

I remember when I went to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture at the movie theater.  I remember that they only fired one laser during the entire 2 hours and 12 minutes and I also remember falling asleep during the last hour or so of the film.  What a let down!

But all was forgiven when Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn came out.  Now this was a movie!  I have watched this movie about 50 times.  I remember one winter during the 80s when I watched it every week for about 30 weeks.  My mother was in a bowling league and so I would go over to my aunt's house.  My brother would go across the street to his friend's house.  My cousin would go to her room and listen to records and I would watch The Wrath of Kahn on Video Disc.  I have it on VHS (a far superior format to Video Disc) and love Ricardo Montalban as Kahn.  Try as they might, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise could not create a better bad guy (though the Borg were pretty convincing).

Much has been said about Star Wars being a superior franchise and HERE is a site describing the fire power of each relative technology (in case you don't go to the link, the Empire wins convincingly).  If that is the only measuring stick you use then yes, Star Wars wins.  But consider this, at the place where I work, you cannot go to www.starwars.com as it is blocked by the firewall.  You can get to www.startrek.com just fine however.

If your want to surf the web looking for sci-fi franchise information on company time, the winner is obvious (at least where I work).

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon