I’ve been attending a monthly men’s dinner organized through my church. The most recent occurrence, I almost missed because apparently the organization of the event transitioned from email to WhatsApp. I don’t have a WhatsApp account. There was no email about the move to WhatsApp. One person just happened to realize I hadn’t gotten the details and called to invite me. I was grateful somebody remembered me (at the last minute), but for weeks leading up, I kept wondering if it just wasn’t happening for March or if I were no longer welcome. I guess being an afterthought is better than being no thought at all.

About 6-7 years ago, I had a couple of close friends, but they got married and I did not. I’ve invited them to various events, but they have children now and usually decline.

Is this the first time we’ve seen Starfleet deploy a kinetic missile?

If I had a nickel for every time a Genesis device was used to reconstruct a nebula into a planet (instead of its intended purpose of terraforming an existing planet), I’d have two nickels-- which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I thought it seemed like V’Ger’s data storage attack, though V’Ger stored entire ships (even planets), leaving no debris.

Apparently, “gigaquads” and “teraquads”.

Lookup GoodSpaceGuy, a perennial candidate on Washington state ballots. His platform is not Star Trek-based, but it is… out there.

Apropos of this episode:

I’m all alone, more or less

I thought they looked like high-budget Scarrans

Did Paramount realize how badly they screwed up with the cancellation?

I know it gets a lot of hate, but TNG: Masks. There’s no adversary, just the crew working together to solve a problem. The solution is based in understanding. For similar reasons, I like Cause and Effect and Time Squared.

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Provided it’s not simply subjected to some other entity’s dumb decisions.