December 2, 1994
Dear Everyone:
It's after 7:00 pm and I'm still in the office, so this will be very
brief.
Thanksgiving was very nice. Since
I had been spending so much time preparing files, databases and PCs, I
wasn't inclined to prepare a turkey (I'd probably have tried to config
its dot-sys or something), so we went out to dinner:
“Marshall”, “Jeannie” and me.
On the day after Thanksgiving, “Marshall” drove us up to the
gold country, to
a little town called
Nevada
City. The weather forecast
for the
Bay Area was for a chance of showers in the afternoon.
However, that "chance of showers"
came from the edge of a significant storm front bearing down on the
Sierra
Nevadas, and the foothills that are called "the gold country".
“Marshall” and “Jeannie” had the
foresight to bring warm jackets. Too
bad they forgot to remind me to bring one.
It was a mite chilly.
We saw lots of pretty shops and I
officially finished my Christmas shopping at a small crafts fair.
We also saw rain, snow and
hail…and big storm clouds
heading into the mountains. It
was interesting, but definitely chilly. I
counted three fur coats. On
people, that is.
I spent part of my vacation getting just about all of my Christmas
shopping and shipping out of the way. This
isn't bragging. This is survival
tactics. I knew I wouldn't have
any time in the evenings and probably none on the weekends because of
The Conversion. So I decided to
lighten my load over the next three weeks by eliminating the shopping
hassle.
Movie Review
“Jeannie” and I did manage to squeeze in
one movie during the whole
Thanksgiving week. So naturally,
we chose the new Star Trek
movie, Generations.
I always read the reviews, but I
reserve judgment since most of the critics are not "Trekkies"
and therefore lacked the necessary Point of View to really appreciate
these movies. As I have been a
Trekkie since September, 1966, I feel better qualified to judge than
most mortals.
(You may have heard that Trek fans preferred to be called “Trekkers” rather than “Trekkies”.
This is because, when the rest of
the world found out about Trekkies, they started using the term in that
insufferably condescendingly cute
way that drives most people up the wall.
Personally, I don't mind being called a Trekkie as long as you
keep that smirk off your face, thank you.)
Unfortunately, the critics were pretty much write about this newest
film. It starts out great, then
gets thoroughly bogged down. In
the last quarter hour or so, it makes a valiant effort to provide a
rousing finish, but doesn't get far.
Nevertheless, it answers an important question.
The first Starship
Enterprise was destroyed by Capt. Kirk in
The
Search for Spock (never could take care of his toys).
Capt. Picard was in charge of the
Enterprise D.
We know from "Yesterday's
Enterprise" that the
Enterprise C was destroyed saving some
Klingons from some
Romulans thus
leading to peace between the Klingons and the
United Federation of Planets. (Pay
attention, there's going to be a quiz later.)
But what became of
Enterprise B, the one
between the original Enterprise
and C? I don't want to give away
any of the plot (think maiden voyages and the
Titanic); but, in “Jeannie's”
words, "You will believe that
a starship can crash." Pretty
good special effects.
Love, as always,
Pete
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