The Rest Of The Story...

Oops. I only told half of the story the other day. The one about shopping and the toy car that turned out to be a little too small? Okay. A little more...

At the same Dollar store where I was looking at the toys, I went the next aisle over to the book shelf. There I found The Outpost War, which was about the US Marine Corps experience in Korea. So I bought that, handed over to Dad when I got back, and the next thing I knew he's telling me "This is about where I was stationed!" "Here it is on the map!"

This almost makes up for the movers losing his photo album when we came here.

A Wish For Wil

It came from seeing THIS FLOWCHART...

And the way the maker of the flowchart split Trekkies into those who liked Wil Wheaton and those who didn't.

I know there probably isn't any new Trek TV series on the horizon, but what if there were? Just thinking aloud.

I'd want a series where Wil isn't necessarily playing Wesley Crusher, of course. I'd rather see him play a new character. He'd be the Captain of a smaller starship, a frigate or destroyer. His ship would be part of a squadron in a sector of the Federation's interior, doing Starfleet's grunt work (search-and-rescue, convoy escort, hunting down pirates and smugglers--and of course those multitudes of operational drills, wargames, and training missions). Unlike TOS and TNG, there wouldn't be much exploration or encounters with new species...there would, however, be opportunities to tidy up the dozens of narrative loose threads left behind by all the previous series. (That alone could fill out several seasons of episodes!)