netflix nostalgia tour

A few weeks ago I watched the pilot episode of Star Trek Voyager on Netflix (the one with the Caretaker). It was pretty good! And the opening credits sequence was total flashback time. (Such nice opening theme music!)

Afterwards, I sort of wanted to watch some more Voyager, without, you know, making a huge commitment or anything. So I skipped to the end and watched the finale.

Really, I should have clued in when — after more than a decade — I could still remember the title of the pilot episode as well as (most) of the key plot points, and all I could remember of the finale was “the ship had armor.” (Seriously, I was *shocked* when the Borg showed up!)

So the finale was kind of sketchy. I mean, plus side: it was sort of like the writers threw everything into the pot, which is fun. Time travel! Klingons! Borg! Romance! Board games! The ready room! Having a baby! It was like a retrospective of all Star Trek ever. The downside was that the conceptual basis of the episode was 1) very creepy to me, and 2) time travel was way better done in that episode of Deep Space 9 (twice actually, if you count the tribbles, but I was thinking of the one with the hostages).

Biggest conclusions: In the future, somehow Starfleet managed to make their “campus” look like a horrible prison building. (An interesting contrast to *actual* prison from the pilot episode, which was all green open spaces (that we saw, obviously, I’m sure it was horrible and prison-like in other ways).)

Also, I think they should have had some ship’s pets.

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fic recs combined with work griping!

Sooooo…

Work. It’s a thing that happens. And everybody’s got ducklings in some area of their life, right? Like, some kind of people you are supposed to be directing in some way, at some time.

At work, I really *want* my ducklings to be like Steve’s:

Imprint, by hetrez
(Steve gets bored when the world doesn’t need saving; SHIELD gives him recruits to train.)

But in reality!land, they’re really a lot more like Derek’s:

Trickster Makes the World, by wldnst
(There’s a plot, but Erica, Isaac, and Boyd spend almost the entire story skipping work, rehashing the same four arguments, and constantly running out of eggs.)

Note: Both of these fics are awesome!

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silver lining

In the middle of July, a sign popped up on my way to work. It said, essentially: HEY DRIVERS! THE TOWN’S (FINALLY) GOING TO FIX THE BRIDGE. ROAD’S GONNA BE CLOSED TILL AUGUST 3RD. LOL THX!

Those may not have been the exact words.

Since that was my favorite way to get to work, I was pretty much counting the days until the 3rd. As one might imagine, given that I’m posting this on August 7th, the bridge repair didn’t exactly go as planned.

Now the sign says this: WHOOPS. KIND OF A BIGGER JOB THAN WE EXPECTED. RAN OUT OF MONEY. PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE FIXED THIS EARLIER, HUH? (And then the direct quote: “ROAD CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.”)

The silver lining, because of course there had to be one, is that this is a town that has all these crazy little back roads that pride themselves on being unchartable. But now there’s these actual (big, bright, orange) detour signs leading the way through the maze.

(My goal is to find a way into work that will be good for snowy driving — not too many hills!)

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