The STNG Convention (short for "Star Trek the Next Generation" for those of you non-trekkies. Okay, that's all of you.) is in Las Vegas this week. My keen STNG radar caught all of the news blurbs on it. I have always secretly wanted to go, but didn't ever want to have to admit that I have been to one. Now I know how gay people must feel when they really want to come out of the closet, but can't. I never liked the old Star Trek (and please make sure you are saying Tre-k, not Track--You Vicki, totally you :) The old one is so totally different from the STNG.
Anyway, it got me thinking about my next generation--that is my children. They're only 3 years old and they've already Skyped to their cousins. How weird is that? What I used to watch as a science fiction program on TV is reality for my children.
I think about what technological advances have happened in my lifetime already. (A mere 38 years and 10 months.) Wow! I vividly remember get a big, huge, honkin' microwave. It was so cool! I was like, we don't have to warm the potatoes up in a pan on the stove? That's so wild. Our first "computer" typewriter was the bomb. At the time, I guess we would have called it totally awesome. Then we did get a computer. A real one. It had a DOS program system on it. It was so archaic. Forget Wii, Xbox, and Playstation. We were all about Atari. Ping Pong anyone? And who needed Limewire for your Ipod or MP3 player when there was a perfectly good jukebox down the street? I could go on and on and on. It just makes me wonder what my children will see in their lifetime. It's exciting to imagine the possibilities. And just for those who need to hear it:
Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise. Its 5 year mission. To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.
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You watch other shows? I have been watching all the Friends seasons too. I just finished 4 - where Ross says Rachel at his wedding. Ah, the memories. I never knew you were a trekkie. We lived together for a year and I didn't know. I miss you and now here I am all the way in WV.
I'm like a total closet Trekkie. Kind of like my love for Britney Spears first album and Prince. I don't really want people to know. I used to own the ENTIRE STNG Collection on VHS.
Oh the memories. I loved watching Star "Track" with you!!! I never could enjoy it without you there to explain it all to me. Wait, I'm still like that. I tried to watch it, but it just wasn't the same. I need my interpreter.
It is crazy how the kids can skype. That is kinda like star trek. W-e-i-r-d!! Maybe someday they will be able to order food through a computer and have it instantly appear!! hehe
It is cool with all the technology we have compared to when we were kids. Troy and I were talking last night about how the dimmer for your brights in your car used to be on the floor and now is on the steering column - he said, "Our kids are never going to experience that!" Makes me feel old! lol.
PS - I am a trekkie too! It is totally my parents' fault... :)
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