Oh, mother, tell your children not to do what I have done

[sovay]

I do not think of myself as more of a Trekkie than your average second-generation reader of science fiction who grew up on Leonard Nimoy introducing the Omni films at the Musem of Science, but last night I sat down to rewatch the two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–94) of which which I had carried the most vivid memories since childhood and then somehow it was seven in the morning and I was telling spatch about that one time Barclay became so obsessed with Voyager he never unpacked his apartment and I had to go to bed before the metatext ate me alive. I may still have to write about at least a couple of the rewatches. It was interesting to me how well I had remembered one and how selectively—although not inaccurately—the other.

I deeply resent finding out about the existence of Jean-Pierre Bacri from the fact that he doesn't exist anymore. I resent the loss of Cloris Leachman and Cicely Tyson on principle. For Hilton Valentine, there is nothing to do but listen to "The House of the Rising Sun."

This time last year I was discovering and documenting the Kendall Cogeneration Station and Broad Canal and all the rest of East Cambridge that went into "Tea with the Earl of Twilight." I miss it desperately. At least there is still industrial steam and winter sunshine in my life.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Which episodes of The Next Generation were they? (TNG is the Star Trek series I know best.)

[davidgillon]

"Tea with the Earl of Twilight."

Oh, wow, that is gorgeous.

[selkie]

I was just reminded that by this time in 2020, I had burned both ends of a candle I still can’t clearly recall, to finish “Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink.” I hate the wash-out of memory this year has been, and it makes me extremely happy that you had good experiences with tv episodes you hadn’t revisited since childhood. I feel it’s proof memory still works.

[thawrecka]

I should get back on my TNG rewatch. I got mired in season one, which is not great, though it was fascinating how much something from a time period I remember really brought home that the past is a different country.