Starfleet Order 104: Section C – Should it be proven with admissible evidence that the flag officer who had assumed command was medically or psychologically unfit for command, the starship's ranking officer could relieve them on that basis. However, such an action was required to be supported by a...
In our never ending mission to educate our kids about all things geek, tonight we enjoyed a Star Trek marathon (of sorts). My eldest (a faithful Dr Who fan) has steadfastly refused to get sucked into the Star Trek universe - until tonight! My secret weapon was of course, Trouble with Tribbles wh...
OK kids, make sure you have python installed so you can fire photons in this python remix of the classic Fortran Super Star Trek classic terminal game from the mid 70s. I played this game (poorly) in High School and had gotten frustrated trying to run the original Fortran version some while ago. T...
Today's APOD (Astronomy picture of the day) is of Vesta, a rocky asteroid named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth. Vesta is the second most massive asteroid in our solar system, but the first to be visited by the Dawn spacecraft which finally arrived there in July after launch in 2...
Perhaps one of my favorite television shows when I was a bit younger, The Wonder Years was simply brilliant. It captured the essence of growing up in an American suburb in the late 60s to early '70s and presented it in a beautiful and nostalgic way with off-screen narration provided by a grown up...
I don't always catch Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (WWDTM) because, frankly it isn't always all that funny. Granted, my sense of humor is a bit twisted, and I'm not really the target demographic of the show, but having George Takei (Sulu of Star Trek) on was a pretty big draw. If you missed him, che...
My daughter was playing Legacy today (one of the few games I've bought lately) and wanted to know how to save a game. I was across the room and I explained what to click on. She shot me a puzzled look when I told her to click on the save icon "...you know, the thing that looks like a floppy d...
I have always been a big Star Trek fan. Besides the obvious allure of fast ships, bare knuckles, lasers and Klingons, I think at the very root of what I dug about the show was Gene Roddenberry's optimistic view of the future. A future where man has done away with hunger and war and racism and eve...