I’ve had a long couple of days so far this week. All fun so far! Last night I went to another film maker’s meet up and then today I got to go to the taping for a special episode of Let’s Make a Deal! hosted by Wayne Brady. I can’t say anything about the show itself until this episode airs and they haven’t a projected airdate yet as of filming this morning. It was a special episode because through it we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek. Star Trek was pretty big thing in house growing up. Principally because of dad. It was one of those things he grew up with and in turn, made sure it was ever omnipresent in our home. Whenever there wasn’t a Lakers game on we were watching The Next Generation. And then later on most Saturday nights, The Original Series was on. I’ll admit, there was a time I claimed to like Star Wars more and in fact to not like Star Trek at all. First, that was a dark time for fandoms when it was one or the other, NO IN BETWEEN! I know better now. And second, I was young child. Not liking Star Trek was the greatest rebellious act I could muster. There’s been hundreds of hours of material created by people more familiar with Star Trek than I who explain the cultural significance of Star Trek. You should find their content. I’ll just say briefly, that Star Trek inspired much of our modern technology. In the sixties we saw Dr. “Bones” McCoy read a person’s vitals with a handheld device wirelessly connected to a small computer that would then take that data and nearly instantaneous diagnose and extrapolate a suitable treatment. Now, we have the Apple Watch that can record a rudimentary echocardiogram and transmit that information to your doctor. The Tricorder, despite being technology in a science fiction series still felt like magic in the way it could access most if not all established human knowledge. And now our cell phones being constantly connected to the internet and quite literally putting the sum of human knowledge at our finger tips. Granted far too many people are still too dumb to recognize these things because they’re told not to. Alas, just in the time since Star Trek was created, the average human lifespan has increased by a minimum of ten years. Just since the beginning of 2026 I’ve caught posts and articles of something like seven or eight people having birthdays between one-hundred and one-hundred and five. Last December Dick Van Dyke turned one-hundred. In just sixty years we advanced in particular, medicine roughly as much as the previous one-hundred years. That may not seem like much until you consider THAT progress was roughly equivalent to possibly the three-hundred years before then.
I often rail against organized religion…pretty much every chance I get, however, my point remains valid. Science fiction is among the greatest necessities of human existence. Insomuch that it precedes science fact. Meanwhile, the superstition of religion, as exemplified profoundly in recent years, serves only those whose bastardize it for personal gain. And in turn, only functions to hold us back as a people.
I look forward to a time when this people actually move forward instead of clinging to fairly tales. The way things are going, it’s unlikely even I’ll live that long.
At any rate, I need to get back to the job hunt now. I’m just waiting for one more refund to arrive, I need to finally get my California License, and then I need to be starting at least one job this week. So, until next time. Have fun!
