Well, I was prepping a new haiku to share with you last night, a dark one from Issa from an especially dark time in his life, but as they say... life gets in the way. Or maybe it's life finds a way. Aw — can't be bothered to look it up, whatever. The point is, the life getting in the way for me last night was my kids who were refusing to go to bed. By the time I finally got my youngest to get to bed it was 11pm, and my writing time was basically over.
So I don't have that for you this morning. Which is last night for all you people on the far side of the world. Time zones are funny. I'm in your future. But many of you won't read this until your morning, which will be my evening, when I'll be hopefully writing that haiku post, unless kids get in the way again.
In lieu of that post, I thought I would throw together a small bit on Star Trek. Yesterday, I posted some Star Trek Parody songs, so Trek is on my mind. Specifically, Star Trek II, which is the best of the movies, so good that it transcends Star Trek and is just a great movie on it's own. Then coincidence stepped in and one of the podcasts I subscribe to did an episode about Space Seed, the TOS episode that introduced Khan, the main baddie of Star Trek II.
I don't remember clearly, but Star Trek IV may have been my first Trek movie in theaters. My dad thought it would be harmless enough to take a 6 year old to — I think I was 6 at the time... it came out in 84, right? Ah again, I can't be bothered to look that up — so I went with him. I think I must have been bored by the middle because I don't remember it at all; I only remember Spock doing his lessons with the computer on Vulcan at the start of the film and I remember the Bird of Prey crashing into the harbor at the end of the film.
The next one I watched was Star Trek II. It was an imperfect copy, one my dad made off TV on one of the early VCRs. Again I have almost no memory of most of the film. I just remember Spock dying[1].
Years later after I got into TNG as a teenager, I came back and rediscovered the movies and learned to enjoy them. Star Trek II naturally led me to go back to watch the episode that introduced Khan. Except in those days you couldn't just order up the episode, you had to wait till it was on rerun. So it seems like I ended up watching most of TOS while I waited to see Space Seed, and in doing so, I came to enjoy TOS as well, inferior as it was to TNG.
Well, that was a ramble and a half. Like a trip to Albuquerque. All I had wanted to do when I started this post was share a modern trailer that I found for Star Trek II. And...here you go. Enjoy!
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David is an American teacher and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org. Write him on Bluesky. |
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