March 23, 2016

Oh why are most Star Trek novels no matter what so.....


Hey there all,
  Hello  and welcome back to my very last day of being four hundred and thirty years old, now in truth to you all of my good friends that read this, know that I'm over the top about tomorrow being my Birthday in less than three hours away... yet that is still a little way off till then so what do I wanna talk about till then, let's just say this very book that I'm seen here

,holding.It is titled STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES ," FROM HISTORY'S SHADOW", it is by a gentleman named Dayton Ward. Now before I get into the whole tale within a tale of this one I want you to know I was going to watch the main episode that this event was pinpointed to within the Star Trek universe. An still I know that something would be really missing if I didn't say that I wanted to read this because of my step brother's Lyle Watson's passing from a couple of years ago in September 13, 2014. I will do my best to honor him with this very review as best I can since he was one of many Star Trek fans who read some of the given novels published by Pocket book press. All that can truly be said of Lyle was that he was into many things especially like myself, he loved a good novel or shall I say we  both loved reading speculative literature. As well back in the days after the animated Star Trek series in late nineteen seventies the creator Gene Rodenberry had very strong concerns about narratives outside of his own, so he was really protective of his baby when Pocket Books came to him with having other storytellers writing Trek fiction and also it was something in his connection to CBS studios that he was protecting as well or so I have read a long time ago before starting of  this very blog.   It was in this  
,very book seen here. Now let's get back into this one by mister Ward, This novel is full of fair characterization for the main starship that every Star Trek fan has come to love, and a few of the author's own characters seem at least more than cardboard cutouts standing on a page full of words from a time traveling journey that would have only of been two years old if not for true fans whom like their fandom to be known as "TREKERS" today, in the past they were known as TREKIES but like this book tale it provides a deeper insight into the episode called "ASSIGNMENT EARTH" from nineteen sixty eight. It picks up a week later after the event in the year 2268, now you maybe wondering how the story has a set timeline huh?, for if you are a true TREKER you know without end that "ASSIGNMENT EARTH " did not have a star date which is how we the viewers could know the results of what the Enterprise crew found during it's five year mission of humanity's earliest opportunities of experiencing discoveries in the outer heavens of space. The answer is that you can watch the first two seasons of The Original Series of Star Trek and pinpoint from watching each episode from "THE MAN TRAP" to "ASSIGNMENT EARTH", and listening to the captain's log of each episode, or you can find the information in books like 

this one. Which happens to be my own personal copy of everything within the course of the Star Trek history of production till the end of year five of ST: Voyager. The Answer of when Star Trek the original series "FROM HISTORY'S SHADOW" stars is in the year 2268, and Kirk and his crew find a pair of two time travelers one of which is much like Mister Spock a Vulcan known as Mestral  the other a Certoss named Gejalik. Whom I think her race is from the "Star Trek Enterprise", series I don't really know for sure? So the story has a lot of  flashbacks to other key episodes from the first season of Star Trek itself most note able are "Tomorrow is  Yesterday" and "The City on the edge of Forever", it also has one Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode tie in as well "Little Green Men" from season four of that series. I have say that even though there were some of Ward's own characters that I did like a lot, I feel he was trying to hard to have this be what HE WOULD'VE wanted to see happen as Star Trek's Original time line to some effects instead of what Rick Berman and The Next Generation's creative staff did with four other Next Gen movies after the last one with the original crew known as Star Trek The Undiscovered Country. I think that best way to grade this story as a whole is.....it was bogged down by way too much set ups that took it into a true void less space that had very little action throughout and the story had very little bits of both what I wanted to see which was a huge exploration of the characters of Gray Seven and Roberta Lincoln in their actual foes from "Assignment Earth" itself. The one good thing I learned from this is Gary's shapeshifting alien cat that both Kirk and Lincoln see out of the corner of their eyes at the end of "Assignment Earth" happens to be finally given a name

and it happens to be Isis. Yet I could also be mistaken by this information I guess all in all I should just Watch "Assignment Earth" again just because......as for "From History Shadow" grade by yours truly I'm giving it a C minus!   

March 01, 2016

Why is the color G.R.E.E.N. So very important in life


Hey There everyone,
Ok now in the past I have had many G.R.E.E.N. Themed ways of starting off this month known as March in the past, and for some of those times it was just so that I could and still hopefully for me Matt Byrd strive to not only learn anything new but also to reach out and grow not only up more each given day but hopefully a little if not a lot wiser, too. I know like I said that I still need to finish some of those very G.R.E.E.N. times from the past yet right at this very moment I want to talk of why the color made up from blending two primary ones which are of course Yellow and my favorite one of the color Blue . The importance of the color of Green at least for me as I said brings us closer to knowing how we can be richer besides the term of money, as the only known green stuff that we need to survive on. We need certain foods that we eat to be green so that their nutritional elements can give us strengths to keep ourselves strong not on just our outside appearances, but also more importantly our own inner growth of keeping ourselves very healthy in the inside of our vessels known as the body. 
     Now I will probably not be the first or the last friend or person you know who thinks "GOING GREEN for the environment to save the planet we live on or at time tunnel to destroy it" I don't know what the answer is to that all important trail question really is of how we should focus on that given matter. I know though that for sure even if I'm most likely in the middle of the road as my respond I would still hope most of us would love to cerate not just a steady balance of change for ourselves by making not only new friends or families be bigger by having children....I think and know that I'm just as much part of the hard core problem as I am also the very simple solution to making the little Blue and Green marble from space a variable place to exists. Yet you would think that this weight that I'm talking of belongs to only me, well at times I really wished it did or does but in truth, regardless of how much each of us go and grow or choose our choices of our belief in what or how existence sprouts itself outside of the female giving birth to us all I really do truly ponder will we understand every point of why we grow into whom the species that is known as humans thrive outside of the simple expression of emotion known as Love. Don't ask me to explain why I'm writing this very sentence here, but should we all be Bruce Banners from marvel comics knowns as the incredible hulk at least then we could all be a respectable color of Green at least when we are angry right? and really, really, honestly shouldn't that one given day be Ol Saint Patrick's day! In all honestly I do hope that your respect of  how it is you do grow in life rather than if it is related to you liking something Green or not.      
        On to the time of real treasure hunting has now begun in the very fashion of the Golden Prizis more than just worth a couple of times hoping that it will rain so that you can find one those little green suited little imaginary little pot of black kettle protectors better known as a lepauchan ? say what is it that I can be speaking of why it is none other than our famous chess game of this year being well Trek related why do you think it is for that? Anyway at the end of last month I said that we were going to compare the captain of called James T Kirk?, How was that your asking huh? well which take of the character do you think was more enriched this one seen here:

the version from the original seventy nine episodes from the Television series that ran on NBC network from September eighth nineteen sixty six to June third nineteen sixty nine. This take on the character for note references had two different command shirts through out that time that appeared randomly and here is what it looked like

            kind of goes with the color of the this very month huh? and no other Star Trek character from the original series had a change of their classic uniform expect when they had certain ceremonies of Starfleet very important matters. In which case they all had that special meeting attire. An in the television series Kirk always knew how to outsmart any alien foe. Versus the movie take of the character seen here:

In the films  the production years  (1979-1994) Kirk showed that his character was able to experience an upgrade in his command as a Starfleet officer to him getting back what we as fans knew him best as in the original series that rank of captain. Then after never dying passed the captain history to a guy known as Jean Luc Picard via being in a place called the Nexus. As to me which Kirk of the movies is best is when he gets his drive of adventure back after his best friend saves the enterprise in "The Wrath of Khan". Least let us not forget Kirk's first movie look seen here
which would have exactly killed all future features of Star Trek movies because all of the cast had their costumes being one pieces. Here also before I give you all the next Versus match up set I was thinking since I'm having it be about Star Trek for a little while I would throw out what I am thinking is that given character's best film quote and vice versa of their best series bit of dialogue so for James T Kirk's most wowing television series bit of speak to me Matt Byrd that stands out is "Risk IS our business. That is what this starship is all about. It is why we are aboard her." The episode that this from is titled "Return to Tomorrow". This episode was the one where the crew found three subterranean canisters and let the beings "borrow their bodies" of Spock, a female historian doctor named Ann Mullhall, and of course, James T. Kirk himself. As to Captain Kirk's favorite movie line of mine, comes when the crew of the Enterprise are on the unstable Genesis planet in "The Search For Spock" and with McCoy beside him while looking up in the night sky utters ".....My God, Bones, What have I Done?......"
       Now which Star Trek character am I gonna chose to compare their two sides of for this month? Well since I'm going off of the original series

 Versus
Mister Montgomery Scott also known more commonly to Star Trek fans as "Scotty". So take your memory back to the original series and the movies for his best quotes but be weary I just may pull a sneaky one here is all I will say for now. For what is it that I had here for as my background plate for the month of February 2016's will be a story within itself, but here it is


"The Ultimate Star Wars Vs Next Gen of  Star Trek". Like I did a couple of years ago with my side question of "MARY JANE WHAT WILL YOU DO UNTIL THE WALL CRAWLER'S BACK IN YOUR LOVING ARMS? When I I showed this.


It took me a while to come out with the hit I did eventually, which I do hope to continue some given day with a grand sequel! So what the heck of a way to have a firefight of a battle for last month staring back at me when I saw on my desktop for awesome thoughts and ideas to write of

, pretty darn Impactful you know it's true for sure with "Dragons War of Flames!"