Balls and Walnuts
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There is only one Trek
For anyone over forty, the only Star Trek featured a plump guy with thinning hair named Shatner and an odd-looking guy (even without the ears and the makeup) named Nimoy. Patrick Stewart? Feh. If I ever publish my trilogy, you’ll find out what I think of Jean Luc Picard.
Hat tip to Blue Gal for leading me by the nose to a brilliant website full of Star Trek inspirational posters. Go give ’em some love. For now, here’s a teaser — and for the record, I always knew this about McCoy and Spock. They didn’t call McCoy “Bones” for nothing.
If you must talk about something, answer me this: why do blackberries taste so much better off the vine than when they’re store-bought?
D.
Doug – I’m 100% with you on the Star Trek “only one”. And sure, it’s probably a little because I was confused about Dad / Captain Kirk (well, Dad never introduced me to any of the blue women, doesn’t mean they didn’t exist!)
And every time I see ST2, I tear up when Spock dies. We won’t talk about the later death, where I actually cried BOTH times. In the theater.
And I
love the inspirational poster site, even if it takes me two comments to say so.
Blackberries… mmm. Store bought always seem to have a hint of the plastic clinging to them.
mmmm blackberries.
You’re wrong about Picard, but you’re right about the poster site. So I guess it comes out even in the end.
Aimless left a great comment or two in my I’m Better than You post. Makes it worth revisiting.
Blackberries are only one of a billion things that taste better off the vine than in the store:
Apricots
Peaches (!)
Cherries
Strawberries
Melons
Are all ones I can think of. Taste a cantaloupe that has ripened in the sun, on the vine, and you’ll forever disdain the flat, winey things you get in the store.
I can’t eat peaches out of the store. They don’t even taste like the same fruit.
You are absolutely right – the FIRST Start Trek series was the best. I always longed for Spock- so quiet, so logical, so much pent up emotion under that stoicism.
We have let the raspberries take over the old garden fence – they, the cantalopes, tomatoes and cucumbers are the best we have all year. Storehouse ripened just can’t compare.
Re: blackberries
They’re allowed to actually ripen on the vine, instead of being picked slightly before they’re ripe.
And I’m under 40, and there’s only one Star Trek for me. I strongly disliked Next Gen.
Thanks, folks.
Kate, I gave you some link-lurve above, even if you do have a jones for Le Bald Shakespearean.
Original Trek (yes the only one worth watching imho) turns forty this fall. I feel old.
I’m not too surprised — I think I was four when the first season aired, now I’m forty-four.
Somedays I feel like a kid, other days I feel ancient.