A post about Star Trek!
Star Trek is a phenomenon a lot of people got used to, or kind of take for granted. I think it's cool how it basically got canceled as a tv show, and all of a sudden years later it's coming out as movies! Somebody rolled the dice, there, big-time. And scored like, a triple! Or however dice are scored. They scored extra!
Vulcan society's cool. I mean, from what I gather about it. Spock, gotta love him. He's got that ear thing going on.
A lot of people give Kirk some ribbing over his whole machismo, but you know what? He's all man. That's how those guys are. Freakin' starship captain, what do you want.
See, when it comes to Sulu and Chekov, I'm just not really feeling it. Chekov, I get the idea he kind of stopped trying after the 3rd movie. Descended into self-parody. Sulu was of course parodying Chekov the whole time, but at least he kept it subtle and stayed consistent with it.
The sheer dignity embodied by Lt. Uhura as the ship's communications officer was always pretty inspirational, especially despite that getup.
I could keep going, on and on, mentioning such beloved characters as "Bones" and McCoy, but ultimately what interests me more is this: what with all these folks we know and love, this crack squad manning their stations and hitting their marks every single time we pop in on the bridge for a visit...what I'm getting at here is, what about the second shift?
I mean, the first-teamers can't be on duty 24-7 can they? They're human, most of them. They do have quarters they retire to! Who's at the helm then? Somebody must be! They're traveling through space, on the way to someplace, probably at at least Warp 3, they can't just pull over for the night and drop anchor. So who's babysitting the works when the starters need to knock off for the evening, get a little shut-eye, maybe blow off some steam, maybe play a couple games of that crappy 3-d chess/tic-tac-toe hybrid? Whatever the main crew do when they punch out for the night, somebody's got to punch in and take over. There must be a whole secondary set of characters we're not seeing! Bring on Enterprise: After Dark! The B-Team.
I mean heck, if they're not all pulling 12-hour shifts (and come on, what kind of enlightened future utopian starfleet would foist such drudge on its loyal yeomanry?), then there's probably a C-Team too!
I kinda don't really want to see those guys, though. That's a bit too scrape, scrape against the ol' barrel-bottom.
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