Does anyone know how Star Trek & Garfield are connected?

Well all I can tell you is that after reading this you'll most certainly know how that lasagna loving furball of the feline species is connected to the star ship with the registry number 1701?, so earlier today after working on naming some "HALLOWEEN wallpaper images" and starting the earlier blog today about strange findings in the workplace parking lot I decided to take care of business of more important sorts. When I was done with the said mission of dealing with that I decided to go out to a new movie, but I ditch that idea when I wanted to go see what changes have happen at the bookstore called "FAR WEST" bookstore since I'd last been over there in the late summer of nineteen eighty nine, boy just trying to find the place was a bit tricky for it is behind the casino and the ups shipping center on the far end of Gage. Also back then in eighty nine I just recalled it being like the Bookworm or Warner's Bookstore out the Columbia center at the time and having a huge assortment of many kinds of books and neat stuff, but now or maybe it was always this I'm not sure a Mormon filled store. I guess before it was only partly looking that way....Eventually I decided to finally head over to the mall since it wasn't so far from there anyway. I went and walked through the whole mall which took about forty five minutes then instead seeing Red Riding Hood, I went into Barnes & Nobles bookstore and looked around at my favorites the new Sci-Fi section and the graphic novels. I then went over to where the discounted books were at the back of the store then I had got to remembering of the soon to be released "SPIDER-MAN NEWSPAPER STRIPS vol.2" thinking it would be a very nice early Birthday present to myself. So I headed over to where they have collected newspaper strips volumes of almost anything you could ever want from "For Better or Worse"

to
"Peanuts" in their original form titled "Our Gang"

even "Calvin & Hobbs"



collections were there, just as I was about to give up looking for the "SPIDER-MAN NEWSPAPER STRIPS vol.2" I came across a set of this crazy
"G" named cat. I knew that my past few times over at HASTINGS in Richland I had been looking for either the original Black and White strip of Garfield dated May 5,2000 why is this so special, your wondering right? remember I like a heavy dose of something called TREK, well when I saw that very strip I cut it out of the Tri-City Herald our local newspaper and kept it up till the time I move in where I'm living now which was on February 1, 2004. I always wanted to find it over these past few years but never knew till early today that the book on the left seen here
which happen to have that very strip:

It's the top one.
I will be laughing on my birthday to comics that I have totally forgotten about that will tickle my funny bone to the core and for some reason of late I know I crave that!