Star Trek Rules, School Drools!

Okay, so under relentless pressure from Andrew, I am finally contributing to this blog, which is supposed to be both of ours. Never mind that my livejournal has now been neglected for years. Oh well, maybe between the two of us we can pester each other into an update every week or so.

Anyway, I saw Star Trek on the same day that I finished my last final for spring semester. It was a rather poetic end to a very long, painful four months. The movie was awesome, particularly the various nods to original series canon, including--my favorite--the Kobayashi Maru scene. I'm not sure many people made this connection, and in fact, it did not hit me until about an hour after the movie, when it came crashing down on me like a ton of bricks. I was brushing my teeth at the time. It occurred to me: Kirk was eating an apple in that scene as he nonchalantly cheated his way to a decisive victory in Spock's dopey little test. Now, all you Trekkies (or Trekkers, or whatever the hell you want to be called), think back to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. During the scene underground on the soon-to-be Genesis planet, Admiral Kirk and Dr. Carol Marcus are having a heartfelt reunion, when the subject of the Kobayashi Maru test comes up. Lieutenant Saavik, who had failed the test earlier in the movie, asks Admiral Kirk to explain how he beat the test. Kirk explains that he reprogrammed the simulator and changed the parameters of the test. David Marcus, Kirk's son, says bluntly, "He cheated." As Kirk explains what he did, he munches on an apple and says, "I don't like to lose." Nod.

I sure hope this movie will breathe some new life into the dying Star Trek franchise. It certainly has been popular enough to do so.

I go back to school in the fall for one final class before I graduate. Oh wait, I have a thesis to write, too. Yay. I can't wait. Oh well, one way or another, I will be done in December.