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by Philipina A. Marcelo
"When something is important enough, you make the time."
It's one of those important lessons that's incredibly vivid in my head, one which I always share with my students... and it came from Lt. Hikaru Sulu
"...to boldy go where no man has gone before." - a helmsman in the Starship USS Enterprise (NC-1701).
Yep, "Star Trek", baby! ;)
Call me geek, I don't care... I'm an avid fan! I got definitely caught up in that Starfleet-generated energy ribbon... starting from the original series, with Capt. James T. Kirk and his mandala-carrying half-vulcan, half-human Number One, Mr. Spock, to the "The Next Generation" of awesome techieness with Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his Number One, William Riker. I burned the boobtube to catch as many episodes as possible... and bought "used books", too! 'Cause, c'mon, which science fiction series is actually bold enough to tackle that incredible scientific abstraction called entropy without sounding like it was being presented with a footnote, huh? :)
Okay, so maybe "House" and "CSI" in the current times come close to cool geekiness... but, that's the
"...to boldly go where no one has gone before."thing, y'see... they are cool! =) The characters are wonderfully sarcastic or too pouty and fashionably flashy - too perfect to be true compared with the "traditionally geeky" spandex-wearing Star Trek characters with their seat-of-cheesiness fashion sense! :) In spite of that, the USS Enterprise crew uttered undying "quotable quotes" - the seriously serious kind. And they fearlessly took up "profound" engineering stuff like, uhm, a-hem, Fluid Mechanics, as if vena contracta is as common as an LV purse! :) Awesomeness? Definitely! :)
Alright then... beam me up, Scotty! :)
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Photo credit: Photos are not mine - grabbed from other websites -thanks.
