My [Mostly] Daily Journal

Not sure how Alpha Inventions works, but at first glance it appears interesting.

The developer of Alpha Inventions explains it, but it’s a little over my head. Hopefully someone smarter than me can explain how it works, and if I have to do anything to be a part of it.

Well, it was supposed to start cooling down today, but you sure can’t prove it by me.

I just went for a walk to the bank, and I started sweating, the moment I walked out of the house.

I know I always say I prefer the heat over the cold, but sometimes there is just too hot, and today is such a case

Having had my fill of news and election coverage this evening, I started channel surfing, and came across an old Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, on the SciFi channel.

After thoroughly enjoying the episode, I just so happen to check the credits, and discovered this particular episode first aired in 1989. (The entire series ran from 1987 through 1994.) [What might even be more amazing, is I actually remembered the episode.]

But 1989! That was almost 20 years ago. I was still in college then.

So I started doing a little more investigation, and discovered the original Star Trek series, with William Shatner, first aired in 1966, and ran for 4 seasons (1966 – 1969).

That was 40 years ago!

Since then there have been two more Star Trek series, in addition to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-2004), Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001), and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005).

Yes, I am aware of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), but I’m not counting that one, as I didn’t think there was anything newsworthy going on there.

Anywaze, what I want to know is why, after 18 years of almost uninterrupted coverage of news from Star Fleet, further news coverage has stopped?

Is this just another plot by the Bush administration to restrict the rights of Americans, and hide the truth about what is going on with Star Fleet?

Have we stopped funding Star Fleet operations in order to pay for the war in Iraq, and the Bush administration does not want us to know we will be unable to defend ourselves from an attack from the Klingons or Romulans?

Or are there terrorists in space, plotting against the US, which our politicians don’t want us to know about, for fear it may create panic?

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I sure want to know!