{"id":1333,"date":"2006-09-08T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2006-09-08T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T19:03:03","slug":"doing_my_best_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Doing My Best Imitation Of A Vulcan Salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/index.html\">fortieth anniversary to Star Trek<\/a>.&nbsp; Sure, it&#8217;s featured bad acting, cheap special effects, hackneyed scripts, and the franchise barely survived Rick Berman&#8217;s disastrous creative tenure.&nbsp; But then there are episodes like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/series\/TOS\/episode\/68716.html\">City on the Edge of Forever<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/library\/episodes\/TNG\/detail\/68556.html\">The Inner Light<\/a>; storytelling gems that kindled my lifelong love affair with science fiction.&nbsp; When I my brother and I were kids, we actually attended a summer class at the local university where we watched episodes of the original series and discussed their themes and plot devices.&nbsp; We even got a write-up in the local paper.&nbsp; Somewhere in the archives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/frontpage\">Green Bay Press-Gazette<\/a>, there&#8217;s a picture of a rather geeky-looking me sitting with a bunch of other geeky-looking adolescents.&nbsp; This was soon after I was trached and I was still working through some feelings of resentment about being on a ventilator.&nbsp; But I always looked forward to that class and I think Trek&#8217;s implication that the future might be kind of cool resonated with me at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Star Trek, for helping me realize that it was okay to let my geek flag fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy fortieth anniversary to Star Trek.&nbsp; Sure, it&#8217;s featured bad acting, cheap special effects, hackneyed scripts, and the franchise barely survived Rick Berman&#8217;s disastrous creative tenure.&nbsp; But then there are episodes like City on the Edge of Forever and The Inner Light; storytelling gems that kindled my lifelong love affair with science fiction.&nbsp; When I <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1333' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}