Hello there all,
Well I am sure if you haven't heard by now you know that the Star Trek franchise lost one of it's key characters yesterday. Mister Spock that half Vulcan/half human alien joined the likes of Deforest Kelly, whom was known as "Bones" the ship's medical officer and James Doohan, whom was the chief Engineer of the USS seventeen oh one star ship named the Enterprise. Doohan's character's name was "Scotty" he passed away on
stardate:0.720.2005.85 Yet as I said above the first original series cast member to past into the final frontier was Leonard McCoy
,whom was portrayed by Deforest Kelly who passed away on stardate: 01.11.1999.79 his cause of death was stomach cancer. Doohan causes of beaming away in the very device he was known for operating on the series transported away because Pneumonia and Alzheimer disease.
Let's now remember that this is about the one character that NBC was very positive shouldn't be carried over from the un-aired pilot known as "The Cage" with a whole different cast. Since this is going to be a three part series, since the original series was only three seasons in length this one will deal with what I Matt, feel and think are the favorite Spock moments of stardates 1312.4 thru 3287.2! These include some episodes that later tie into the feature films, sure everyone knows what I'm talking about with "Space Seed" leading to "The Wrath of Khan" but do you see similar hints to "early peace" between the Federation and the Kilgon Empire before you view "The Undiscovered County", the last time the original crew is together. In the very earliest ones which were only two ( I Think?) his tunic wasn't it's famous blue color rather it was
gold like Kirk's was at least most of the time, Kirk also from to time had a green one at times. The one way for sure to know Spock is a neat character is he has a double role on the ship. One is he is the ship's science officer and his location is directly across from ensign Pavel Chekov monitoring station
, which for the first season was full of extras till the second season.
Now here are my top Spock episodes of season one:
3."This Side of Paradise"- In this episode not only is Spock showing his emotional state in the way of love to one the colonists of Omicron Ceti III that he knew from years before, but we learn he does have a first name only that it isn't pronounceable in the human language.
2. "Court Martial"- Sure in truth this one is really one about Kirk, but there is a part where Spock is playing a game of Chess (something still new to me but I'm also still looking for a good place to find a game on my tablet). He tells McCoy that he has beaten the computer four times in row and it should have at least been at least draw, for he had programed the computer with the game months ago. The other important thing that is revealed in the episode is books hold a wealth of knowledge, and still we are more comfortable with computers more than ever, should we be as a society. I don't know the answer any more than you do on that given note?
and here is my number one favorite of season one:
It is one that almost every Trek fan considers the crowning moments of all time episodes for the original series 1. "The City on the Edge of Forever"- The Spock moments in this one showcase fear, racism, (especially the "Mechanical Rice Picker" explanation for Spock's ears is just priceless, or his own about "working with materials of the early twentieth century is like bearskins and knives"....) Still this was the best episode of showing time displacement of the two best friends of Spock and Kirk. Also the price of falling in love with people of the past. Also there happens to be a little throw out here about something I found earlier last weekend at Adventures Underground...... A comic graphic novel titled "The Official Adaptation of Harlan Ellison's original teleplay of The City of on the Edge of Forever" would be a great present for a day known as March twenty fourth 2015 (hint-hint).
To Be Continued.....
Hello Spock fans,
I don't really know how many of you of my readers of this very blog know this or not but earlier today the world lost one of it's most beloved all time stars. This morning before heading off to work at Albertson's I just so happen to be checking a family Facebook message board that my sister Merri created to honor both her brother Lyle and one his most favorite sci-fi series known as Star Trek as if you had to to guess. I saw that a friend of Lyle's had wrote "Good-Bye Leonard Nimoy" and aftfter a second of seeing both Merri's and my sister in law Kathie Byrd's replies of "What?" I typed his name into my tablet and found out on Wikipedia that sadly it is true. The world of science fiction lost one of it's greatest characters in the series called Star Trek. The one thing I have to say is before I continue was at least from the sixteenth of this month I saw a whole lot of other parts Leonard Nimoy had played on Television from Perry Mason to Cumlbo. Heck I will admit I didn't even know he was sick at all. Lennard also got to be part of bringing Star Trek itself from near death, after his character Spock was killed at the end of the second Star Trek feature (which I will watch later this weekend I'm sure of that) The Wrath of Khan, was The return of his character in Star Trek III The Search for Spock, yet the best was next to come. The Voyage Home. He voiced the animated version of himself in Star Trek the animated series. He was also part of the Transformers for three movies....three your saying right?, I only know the ones by director Micheal Bay that he was in and that's two your sure of and you'd be right but at the same time he was in the original Transformers movie seen as the new form of the Decepitcon leader Megatron
"who was sent on his way to an oblivion when the character refused to accept the terms of the world devouring Unicon, and was made into Galvatron. Who was voiced by Leonard Nimoy. He was in one episode of Rod Serling Twilight Zone, where he played an army guy named Hansen. The episode was titled "A Quality of Mercy".
One very interesting thing to note this was TZ's eightieth episode and the series of Star Trek the original series was canceled by one episode short of this yet at the time of what seasons they were apart of is the third. Nimoy was born on March 26th,1931 in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Yiddish speaking Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Soviet Union (now Ukraine). His mother was Dora Spinner and his father was Max Nimoy. They left Iziaslav separately and were reunited in the United States. (possibly in 1924 for a year later in November they were married and both of his parents died in nineteen eighty seven. Leonard also happens to have a older brother by five years of age named Melvin ( as to if he has passed away I don't know?) Leonard started acting at the age of 8. He is survived by his his second wife Susan Bay whom is a cousin of film director Micheal Bay, which he married on January first nineteen eighty night, and has a son Adam and his children Madeleine Nimoy, and son Jonah Nimoy. He also has a daughter named Julie Nimoy Schwatz and she her husband Gregory have three children. They are Alex, Dani, Spencer. So I guess in a way Spock did have kids we just never knew about them for it seems his Vulcan standpoint but truthfully here is a photo of Leonard with his kids
and like any parent showing off a little bit of "Daddy's related work as best he can?"
The world of Star Trek fans are mighty sad to hear that their hero Mister Spock left the universe by way of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. I guess in truth no matter how much we loved Leonard and his well renowned character of Spock, he had human failings that we could all have if we are smokers. I'm just glad he lived long enough to give us a character that was very human in life no matter how alien he was on screen.
Goodbye Leonard and much like your character's greatest phrase we know you Lived and Prospered.... your whole life to educating the world with your second best phrase "I have been, and Always shall be your friend"
Hello my Alien friends are you really ready for a fall on you butt moment or two.......?,
As you know I just got done with the book I am seen here in my hand
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, just a few weeks or so ago and now before I leap into only the second of this Alien titled series I have to get done with one more last little thing of course I am sure you know what it is that I'm hinting at? Well just in case you have been out and about on your own book reading adventures which are awesome I'm pretty sure if your having trouble getting through your grand treasure trove of pleasing knowledge fun whatever it might be I'm sure you will find after reading this little heap of malicious hilarity yours will be full of gusto as much as this series has already proven itself to me, Matt. So before getting into the answer of what is my own favorite laughable bit of this trove of fun I have also tried to relay that the aliens are very deadly to us at least the bad Superbeings are and I have said the they don't look a thing like these three scary images seen here or
rather do they? Here are the funny moments near the end that like I said before had me in need of stitches because I just couldn't handle the craziness of what was going on? yet I somehow am ready for this one
or at least I hope I am at any rate let's go on down to party town Alien style shall we?
At the end of last segment I had us seeing the rock and roll queen known as Katherine Katt ready to take on as she calls the Superbeings aliens good ol "fuglies"only to have her alien love from Alpha Cenatri in need of major help. When she and his cousin Christoper try to pursue his captors after getting back to home base only to be stopped by her mom and dad who throw in an unknown glitch in stopping the worst fugly of all known as Mephisopheles. Whom was using a human named Ron Yates that is a terrorist to be hidden from the world, till his new interest a human female came about for breeding proposes.
Anyway Katherine and Christopher are looking for a plane to get them to get closer to Martini and the others whom are kidnapped, by one their own......Christoper grabbed my hand and we ran to a gate. But the operators were fiddling with it. "What 's wrong? " Christopher barked.
"We're blocked from the Science Center. Some kind of inference. It's affected all of the gates."
"Did the teams with Martini and Reader make it back to the Science Center?" I asked.
"Yes, they did."
Christopher cursed. " We're too far for me to run us there."
I thought about it. "I know you can't actually fly a plane, but do you know how?"
"Yes we all learned, just in case. I could tell someone how to fly, but I can't do it myself. "
"Oh good."
He stared at me. " You're not suggesting what I think you are, are you?"
"We don't they die."
"You ever flown something before?"
I answered honestly. "I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter."
"I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am going to regret this."
Now you can more than guess why for this post and the last one why I included two Star Wars photos or more, now let's move forward on to the best comical bit of dialog that had me in tears.
When Katherine and Mephisopheles finally have their grand show down with each other the way she eggs him out of his comfort zone is just well let's say insane.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely. He chose this path without my help. You will come to see why as well. The more you lead, the more you will learn the truth." He shifted impatiently. "Where are the masses?"
Distraction time again. "So Lucifer? Can I call you Lucifer? Lucifer, why do you manifest so dawned ugly? I mean, biblically, you should be the hottie of hotties, yet Yates is not the snazziest A-C on the planet, and your manifestation is, let's be honest, butt freaking ugly."
He didn't answer. No problem. As long as one of us was talking, we were all still alive. Of course, to kill him, I had to get Mephisopheles to appear. This Superbeing extermination gig really wasn't anything near glamorous or fun. Pity I seemed so good at it.
See to me, you should look like Jeff or Christopher. They are totally hot. All the A-Cs are. And we have human hotties, too, like James, for instance. Any one of them could get any woman or gas man hooked into you instantly. And as for the straight men and lesbians? Jeez, man, pick a chicken here and go for it, right? So, again, why?"
Silence, but I thought I saw a little steam coming out of his ears.
"Oh by the way, did you know that Yates tried to blow me up this morning? I really doubt you wanted him to do that."
So everyone is wondering what is my most favorite laughable bit of dialog is that had me all wet in the face from Touched by an Alien? It came from the early morning part mentioned above that had Christopher and Katherine rescuing Jeff and the others Alpha Centurions that had been used as bait for what I just described as well. Here it is,oh and when I reveal it you know why without a questionable doubt. "Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl." So now you know why I love this outside of the science fiction aspects right? I am a die hard goofball.
To be continued in "ALIEN TANGO pt. I.
Hello book lovers of all kinds but especially of needful laughter at times,
Well I do hope that you my reading public are ready for more insider information about the saga of an earth woman joining up with some very interesting Aliens from a place known as Alpha Centauri to kick the tar outta some weird space beings known as "Superbeings". Yet again at the same time these Superbeings are not like this kind of aliens seen here like Jabba the Hutt
or even to the likes of the Gamilons from the Sci-Fi anime from Japan known as Star Blazers in the united states, but are still just as creepy as a ordinary depicted alien that looks like the one seen here
from how we think or would like to being thoughtful of the way we humans describe an encounter with such a being that is not of this earth. Please come with me once again as I share with you more gut busting moments of this
book seen here.
Now before I get to carried away as I did last time (see part one just above .......) most of this very section had a lot of seriousness tone wise but alas the sides of my brain were at times like an bowel of melted ice cream just soupy as can be!
"I'll take the silence as confirmation. Oh and those SUV 's full of agents who were with us to the crash site? They were along to protect you, Pope White"
"We use a different word," he said quietly. "Pope really is not appropriate " "True you get to marry append have kids. I could call you Rabbi Richard, but you could make make it easier and just tell me what the title is. " Silence, No problem___I knew how to get things out of these boys. "Bossa Nova? The Head Cheese? Mister Big? Papa Grande? The Head Honcho? Numero Uno? The Grand Poobah?"
Martini started to laugh. It was a relief in more ways than one. " I really like Bossa Nova, " he said to White You should consider it."
"He's Sovereign Pontifex" Christoper snapped. I'd figured he would end up the one to crack first.I was making fun of his father,after all.
Now as all of you know I am a sucker for stories that have countless out of no where references to greater comic book as part of the main story. An even through Katherine the main heroin hasn't resourced my favorite Spider-Man she has of the X-Men, and yet when you hear how she depict the aliens from Alpha Centauri headquarters you well I'll say this wanna wet yourself it is so funny.
Martini sighed. "Okay." We followed the agent out of the library, to the elevators, and back up to the level where we'd arrived , what I was pretty sure was the Bat Cave level.I wasn't positive-----I could have been here before or never hit this floor at all.I felt like asmall rat in a really largemaze inside the Science Center.
We headed to a large room within the Bat Cave that was a lot like Batman's inner sanctum, only no one was in a rubber suit with a nifty cape. Lots of big screen, lots of computer terminals, lots of other things I couldn't identify.
The decor screamed Command Center.
An finally here is a little bit of fun from Katherine as she is leading a team against the big bad alien of them all namely Mephistopheles for round two.
" Get Mr. Custer's Last Stand into the car and keep him from just standing around being a target."
"What will you be doing?" Reader asked me as ha and Christoper lifted Martini up. I looked around and caught my reflection in one of the aerosol cans. I walked to the side of the car and looked at my chest in the side-view mirror. "Improvising"
Like I said before you have to have a few moment of any serious novel or book for a chance to slime and laugh within your heart and soul.....if not out loud at times.
To Be Continued.......
Hello All who are hooked on "TOUCH BY AN ALIEN",
Now before I go and start this particular entry I want it known that there are many other "Alien type of series", that some may want to think that this series is influenced by in it's title alone. But I assure everyone reading this the Aliens in this are most certainly not like these of James Cameron or Ridely Scott's
Alien film franchise at all. In fact they are not like Ken Johnson's V aliens which are outer space lizards, even though they only go by Visitors name in that whole series. In fact the Aliens in "Touched by an Alien" are very humanoid by their outside features, but I'm not here to directly talk about more in depth of the story because I am just now trying to get within the book seen here
in the series. Yet I am making this one because of the one thing most science fiction novels are missing for the most part that of course being humor, An let me tell you this series like I said before has you the reader off your feet it truly does and right now if you don't mind I'd like to share some of them:
"He looks like the man I killed. Right before I killed him, I mean."
"They all look like that," Martini said quietly. " The faces are different, some men, some women, but they all end up looking at humans like this."
"What are they? And don't say mutants" I added. "Superbeings is what we call them," White replied. "It's not a perfect description but it's good enough."
"Dad, I'm with Homeland Security. Everything's okay. I used the pen you gave me to stop the lunatic. I didn't get hurt, and I'm not in trouble, just taking care of debriefs and that sort of stuff." "So you did tackle a terrorist?" "I didn't know he was a terrorist, Dad. I just sort of.....reacted. One of those once-in-a-lifetime hero things. Nothing to worry about." "Right." He sighted. "Well, your mother will be relieved to know you're okay, and probably more thrilled about this than I am. You sure the Homeland Security people aren't going to ship you off to Guantanamo Bay?"
And finally for the end of this post I have to end it with how in one way the Alpha Centurions shake our human Alien when they are going to fetch for her a quick change of clothes. I was somewhat suspicious of his motives and what I was getting into, but in addition to changing my clothes, I really wanted to know what Christopher had done during his time in my apartment. "Okay, let's go."
"That's my girl! " Martini grabbed my hand again and trotted us off to a gate at the opposite end of the dome from where the cars were. He shooed the security guard away, and I was interested to note there was no protest given.
"," Your security detail always this lax?"
"Nope. I'm just a popular guy. Now hush, I need to pay attention while I do the calibrations. " He fiddled around with some knobs and buttons on the side of the gate. His hands were a blur, and I had to stop watching. "Okay, all set," He said less than a minute later.
"I thought you said your reflexes were too fast for driving. "
"These aren't human- created" He cooked his head.
"You okay? That was a dumb question, for you. "
"I think it's all starting to blur into total insanity," I admitted. "I feel like Alice, but you're one weird white rabbit." "I'm more like the Cheshire cat." Martini laughed. "It's natural." With that he moved us right in front of the opening.
Now I know most importantly your asking why he is using a Alice in Wonderland reference to end at, Well the simple answer is because that was my last book before landing into this grand series of much needed laughter.
To be continued.....
With it being not only the first of the month of Ohh Laaa Love,
Okay I know that if your a true hearten football fan and the Seattle Seahawks are your team that you root for most of all your probably feeling a lot of the color of Blue, they were wearing of Super Bowel XLIX that so happens to be 49 in Roman numerals if you are still steaming over their lost to New England Patriots. Still I want to say to any and all true football fans out there I do hope you had an awesome afternoon or evening watching the end of the two thousand and fourteen's year of a hard earned game by either team. Here are a few photos from today of mostly that same church crew of Football fans
where I was with my brother Michael and his small cluster of a army church bunch. We happen to of had our Super Bowel party like we did last year at a church member's club house the only difference from last year one we were on the far North east part of Richland, but unlike last year we sure as heck didn't go small at all. In fact our viewing screen was a ten foot by fourteen feet movie wall huger and the images
,were just awesome from it. Oh and just to show it's size here I am standing action posing wise
,pretty neat huh? After the party was over my sister in law Kathie and the kids took me home, when we got there I had Heidi who had her birthday the same as Stan Lee open her way over due belated B-Day Presents and to say she wasn't in awe of them would be well have a small loo key
for yourself and tell me what you think? An now for the reason you all come here every first of the month the guessing game of the Desktop I had all month long over January and the reveal of the plate on the site here , I have this one known as
"The power villains of the 80's". An then here is what I think both Marvel and Detective Comics should have had a true cross over of instead of a magic deal of "Devil may care hatred of fans dreams being Crushed", by mandated input at all I called this one
,The forgotten switching that would have been cool at least once between the two "S Heroes". So Finally who would win in a chess match between Flash Gordon and Barry Allen? I think the Answer is it would end in a stalemate with each proving they are "The Flash" that after both agree they break out in unison with the Queen song "Go Flash". Here is this month's chess battle Clark Kent vs Bruce Banner? with this one here is the stipulation neither can become there super alter ego to win the match! , but the is a winner Who is it?
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