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This is my first every blog posting. My girlfriend, Darcy has been blogging for a few months so I finally decided to try it out. I am at work right now but not working at my job (I'm a librarian). I usually come in early for my shift or stay after work to surf as I don't own a computer. I'm html coding by hand, it's been a while, so hopefully there won't be too many mistakes in my entries. I've used Dreamweaver at work a few times and it's a powerful tool! But I'm glad that I learned to code by hand first. Anyway I've started blogging to write down aimless things and perhaps uninteresting things to people. But since many won't be reading this then it should not matter. I just finished reading a great book called The Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion. At 800 pages it is extremely detailed and is a must for any Star Trek fan. In many ways that series had better fleshed out characters than The Next Generation. In my view Gul Dukat was the best Star Trek single villan since Khan. The Borg were a collective and I don't consider Q to be an antagonist. Staying on the topic of Star Trek for a minute, Enterprise is winding down its second season. Except for a few quality episodes such as Congenitor and an interesting story about one of the crew's backgrounds in The Breach the season has been rather forgettable. I just don't see the interest in re-introducing aliens that we've seen years ago (Andorians and Borg come to mind). Enterprise is simply re-hashing morality tales that have been done in the previous Star Trek incarnations. Enterprise messed up the Star Trek timeline, in my opinion with the episode Regeneration. I was so infuriated with that show that I broke down and wrote a comment to the Enterprise episode message board. I ended up reading some other threads and can see how the Enterprise writers could have maybe been partially successful in bending the timeline to fit this story. But I suppose I am a purist and that Enterprise's problems is that there is a growing trend of seeing how the crew deals with situations that will occur in the future and thus should not happen. The episode Bounty did a poor job of explaining T'Pol's microbe induced Pon Farr. First of all the blood fever does not affect Vulcan females! Secondly the plot was an obvious chance for T'Pol to scamper around in a sex crazed state. The few scenes with Phlox were amusing but Leonard Nimoy would have been shaking his head in disbelief if he had watched this episode. I'll now get off my soapbox. Almost time to go to the reference desk and begin my long shift. Be seeing you...
posted by Michael at 10:54 AM