Heart Of Glory

The drama with the play is getting better but I’m still not feeling as into it as I would like to be but the love of the show is growing so all will be good. I’ve had a great long weekend and got to have some fun at home and get some work done. Today I had a really fun lunch and shopping trip with my mom! Still at the age of 29 I love spending time with my Mommy.

Treadmill: 260 calories and 1.85 miles

Heart of Glory

The Enterprise is investigating a battle that took place just across the Romulan neutral zone. Upon entering the neutral zone the Enterprise discovers a severely damaged space ship. The crew beams over to investigate and they take the opportunity to use a visual link between Geordi’s visor and the ships viewer. This allows for a large amount of emotional dialogue and wonder between Geordi and Captain Picard, which essentially is pointless other than it giving insight into the emotional lives of the characters. On board the away team discovers three Klingons, one who is near death. They beam over to the Enterprise just before the ship explodes. The Klingons are obviously hiding something as to the nature of their being onboard an alien freight ship. The Klingons take a shining to Worf obviously and make several attempts to saw Worf to their side and help them join in a revolution to bring the warrior lifestyle back to the Klingon Empire. These Klingons apparently feel that the peace alliance with the Federation is killing the Klingon way of life. A Klingon battle cruiser intercepts the Enterprise and demands the two remaining klingons so that they can be executed. Worf pleads for their lives but to no avail. The Klingons mount an escape from the brig and in the process one is shot. The leader fleas the engineering and threatens to destroy the ship if he is not given the battle bridge to wage war across the galaxy. Worf attempts to talk it through with him but in the end the Klingon attempts to fire and Worf shoots him. Worf is torn the whole time between his duty to Starfleet and his desire to be with his people.

This episode marks the first appearance of the Klingons in The Next Generation, other than Worf that is. In this episode we learn that Worf was adopted by humans after his parents were killed in a Romulan raid of Khitomer. It is really nice to begin to see more about Worf and it points out a major difference between the Original Series and the Next Generation. This difference is the character development. In TNG the characters were given the opportunity to grow and change and we learn more about their past. In the Original Series we didn’t learn much about the characters throughout the series, the only characters we learned more about were the three main characters. In TNG all characters are given much more rich back stories.

Coming of Age

DO BETTER! A comment that was said over and over after rehearsal on Friday. Do Better, a comment I truly am trying to take to heart and make a guiding force in my life. Anyway that is enough on the tough stuff. I’m sitting her watching the Golden Globes and loving every minute of it, though it makes me notice a few things about this show. One.. How ridiculous are awards shows? Truly there are more important things going on that watching a bunch of rich famous people get awards. That being said I love awards shows so I’m going to keep watching. Two, The Globes always seem to give the awards to the newest show on TV not necessarily the best show but the newest. So the moral of that story is don’t take what the globes call the best as what is really the best. K

Thank you Jesus that it is MLK day tomorrow and I don’t have to be up early tomorrow morning!

Today’s Workout: Treadmill 250 calories and 1.9miles

Coming of Age

There are two different stories happing in this episode that overlap and go back and forth so I will explain them one at a time because it is just easier.

Story 1:

Wesley Crusher is beaming down to a planet to go through a rigorous Starfleet Academy entrance exam. There are four candidates testing, Wesley, a Vulcan female, a Human female and Mordock,  the first Benzyte to test for Starfleet entrance. The four are put through a series of academic test to see if they have the intelligence to get into the academy. During testing Mordock and Wesley become friends and encourage each other along the way. They are then faced with a Psych Test to see if they can face their feers and still maintain composure. Wesley’s test is to see if he can make a decision that may cause another person to die in the course of action. Wesley performs well of course but Mordock is admitted to the academy and Wesley is encouraged to apply again next year.

Story 2:

A Starfleet admiral beams aboard the Enterprise with an investigator from Starfleet command. The two inform Picard that an investigation is being completed to determine if something is wrong on the Enterprise. Commander Remick, the investigator, proceeds to interrogate the entire crew and pisses everyone off in the process. The nice thing is that everyone seems to be supporting the crew and saying nothing is wrong at all. We learn that investigation is being completed to see if Picard is trustworthy and not ‘breached’. The admiral fears that something has infiltrated Starfleet and is trying to undermine its structure and power. Picard is then offered to be the head of Starfleet Academy, so that he can be close to Earth and help monitor Starfleet. Picard declines, stating that he will be more help out in space. This storyline sets up a future episode that reveals the intruder into Starfleet.

Home Soil

Clue:The Musical rehearsals are well under way and things are going fairly well. We have a fine cast from what I can see and things are going to be just peachy.. I hope. As with any show there is onstage Drama and backstage dram but I’m sure it will all be ok. I’m proud of myself for getting home after a 16 hour day and worked out.. yeah me.

Treadmill: 260calories and 2.9 miles

Home Soil

The Enterprise is checking in on a group of planet terraformers on a remote Federation planet. The group is attempting to turn a lifeless planet into a planet that can support life. Picard immediately thinks something is odd with the planet’s crew but thinks little of it at first because terraformers are known to be a little odd and quirky. Upon beaming down to look around the Enterprise crew is amazed with the work and are truly exploring what is happening until one of the miners is killed by a drilling laser that has gone haywire. Upon investigating Geordi and Data find a mysterious blinking light in the mine shaft and beam it aboard the Enterprise. Dr. Crusher and Data are now charged with the task of determining if this inorganic object is a life form or not. The object is soon discovered to be a lifeform as it splits into two different lights and soon attempts to communicate with the crew of the Enterprise. Soon the Enterprise is in danger of being destroyed by the lifeform who has declared war upon the Enterprise and the crew of terraformers for attempting to kill its entire kind. The lights apparently live in a thin layer of highly salty water just below the surface of the sand on the planet. Data has the ingenious idea of turning off the lights and immediately the life form agrees to end the war if they Enterprise will return it home.

Yet another environmentalist story from the late 80’s transposed into the 24^th century. Here we have an update of Devil in the Dark from the original series too in many ways. We also have a guest staring turn from Walter Goetll who is most famous from playing General Gogol in the James Bond movies from 1977 to 1987. Fun to see him here!

When The Bough Breaks

So today was really a waste of a day. I didn’t do a whole lot and really I’m okay with that for the most part. I finished my impromptu Absolutely Fabulous marathon that I have been having all week at my house. I have loved this show as long as I can remember and continue to love it. It makes me wish I were British and friends with Eddy and Patsy. I even found the second new episode streaming online. The new episodes aren’t great but they are enjoyable at the very least.

Today’s workout: Treadmill and I forgot to write down my numbers.. whoops

When The Bough Breaks

The Enterprise has found a planet that has long been considered a myth, a so called Atlantis of outer space. Upon making contact with the Enterprise the inhabitants make a probe and a beam down some of the crew for talks. It is revealed that the people on the planet can no longer have children and are facing extinction. Soon after the landing part is returned and suddenly the children are abducted and brought to the planet. The inhabitants don’t seem to understand that the Enterprise crew are attached to their children and want them back. They make it clear that the children will not be returned under any circumstance. Through a series of negotiations nothing happens and the aliens show their strength by shooting the Enterprise 3 days away. On the way back Dr. Crusher discovers that the aliens are dying of radiation poisoning. Meanwhile back on the planet Wesley unites the children into a passive hunger and activity strike.  Upon returning the Enterprise crew beams down and takes over the computer and the children are returned. It is revealed that the ozone layer of the planet is gone and caused health problems.

Much as many of the episodes in the Original Series are related to war, racial tensions, and social class issues the episodes of The Next Generation are at times just as politically based. This episode is on current environmental episodes and future episodes discuss drugs, women’s rights, and again technology vs. mankind.

Too Short A Season

Ya know a day can start of wonderful and great and then in one small moment everything can change. First off I just want to say that No nothing is drastically wrong. The issue of the day is that your’s truly was supposed to have a date this evening but got  a text an hour prior to the date cancelling  for the evening. A word to the wise to all inclined to ask me on a date, If you make plans on a Tuesday it is more socially acceptable to cancel just about any time more than 24 hours prior to the date. Now by following this rule of thumb texting an hour before is considered “poor form”. I even went out and bought new shoes for this fricking event. Now I really did need new shoes this was just a good excuse for getting them today. The other major upset is that we were going to go to a Thai place for dinner and I was really looking forward to it! I haven’t had Thai in ages and the craving has struck. Oh well all is well in the world and worse things could happen.

Today’s Workout: 255 calories and 1.95 miles

Too Short A Season

A crisis has broken out on a Federation planet and the embassy workers have been taken hostage by the locals. The governor of the planet, Karnas, has requested that Admiral Jameson come to perform the negotiations. The Admiral is for lack of a better word ancient and suffers from an incurable disease. Upon boarding the ship with his wife Jameson begins acting strangely and he seems to be making a miraculous recovery. Soon he is walking about and starting to look younger. He reveals that he has taken some type of alien anti-aging therapy to improve his health for this mission. Apparently he has had a history with Karnas and helped negotiate a dispute on the planet 40 years earlier. Jameson, we learn falsified his reports 40 years earlier of his negotiations with Karnas. On paper it says that he negotiated and all things were great. The truth is that he agreed to give Karnas federation weapons to help his case but he secretly gave equal weapons to the opposing force on the planet, an act that plunged the planet into civil war for 40 years. In the end Jameson and Karnas confront each other but soon Jameson dies due to the alien therapy’s effects. Karnas surrenders to the Federation. The Enterprise then heads off to the next mission.

Not a great episode but not a horrible episode.. I guess.  Also the Admiral's costumes in the first season were god awful!!!

11001001

The first day back to school after break has come and gone and I’m still here… YEAH!!! Thank god it is a four day week though because I’m already exhausted and ready for a long nights sleep. Today I kicked a kid out of my yearbook meeting… which is a first in three years. I felt bad about a little bit but I simply won’t tolerate student’s talking disparagingly about other students in the school especially when they students being talked about are some of the sweetest kids who just happen to have special education services.  I have to play the strict Mr. Olson card tomorrow morning and I’m not really used to doing that because it doesn’t need to happen often but oh well. Should be a fun start to tomorrow!

Workout: Treadmill 280 calories and 2.4miles

11001001

The Enterprise is heading into space dock to have some minor repairs and improvements made by a group of Starfleet engineers. The lead engineers are a curious group of little aliens called Bynars. The Bynars always travel in two and their planet’s life is based on the binary system of units comprised of zeros and ones. The Bynars seem to be acting very suspiciously but the crew ignores it because they are so different. Riker and Picard end up in the hollodeck hitting on a sultry woman in a fake jazz club. She is Riker’s ideal woman, named Minuet and she keeps the two men occupied in the hollodeck. While Riker and Picard are busy the rest of the ship is alerted to a fake emergency and everyone evacuates the ship. We learn soon that they Bynars have hijacked the Enterprise to bring it to their world. Their sole purpose was to download their world’s computer into the Enterprise’s database and the restart their home world’s computer which has nearly been destroyed due to a super nova. The ship returns to starbase and the Bynars willingly go to jail for their crime.

Angel One

Well all good things as they say! Today is the last day of winter break and tomorrow begins the second “half” of the school year. It has been a good few days off and I’ve gotten a lot accomplished around the house and for work. I also managed to have quite a bit of fun which is the point of a break. Today I went grocery shopping and then out to lunch at the Pizza Ranch in Elk River. The food was surprisingly good and fun but the only down side was all the little kids at the restaurant.. oh well.

Today’s Workout: 275 calories and 2.50 miles

Angel One

The Enterprise is investigating the disappearance of a freighter ship and the primary search place is a planet called Angel One. Before beaming down Troi briefs the crew about the planet’s customs and laws. The big difference from Earth is that here the women are in charge and the men are treated as objects and play things. The team beams down and the leaders of Angel One seem to be unsure of the Enterprise but relent to letting them search for the men who have become outlaws on the planet. Meanwhile on the Enterprise a mysterious Virus has become a plague on board and by the end of the episode infects most of the crew, with the exception of Dr. Crusher who finds a cure just in time.  On the planet the missing freighter crew are found but they don’t want to leave as they have found wives and are living as equals among the women in their makeshift village. The outlaws are found by the Angel One government as one of the wives is a member of the government herself. They are all sentenced to death and it is up to Riker to convince the leader of the Angel One government not to kill them, he is of course successful. The outlaws are not killed but they are exiled to a remote section of the planet.

The early episodes of Star Trek: TNG seem to have a fascination with SEX which must be a reflection of the time it was made in the late 1980’s after the sexual revolution of the 70’s??? IDK. Does anyone know if this is a correct assumption on my behalf?