Ah, Giant Abraham Lincoln In Space

My fiancee was working on a PowerPoint presentation for her class this morning. The class involved history on slavery as she had a section to do on Lincoln. So, being helpful I sent her these images from a quick google search:
Ah Star Trek. The episode where the Enterprise encounters a giant Abraham Lincoln in space. For some reason she chose not to use the images I sent.
Actually, despite what you may think if you've never seen this episode, it's not bad. It also has the first canon appearance and reference to Kahless, the Klingon Jesus figure as well as Surak, a Vulcan historical figure.

Anyway, there is your classic Trek history lesson for the day.

Thoughts On The End Of Galactica

Just watched this past week's episode of Battlestar Galactica. The second last episode, and it was good stuff. I have really enjoyed this second half of the season much more than the first, or the second half of season 3 for that matter. The following contains spoilers, so for those of you waiting for some DVD box set or something (which I will refuse to buy due to the network's constant screwing with viewers over scheduling), you should stop reading now.

The end of last episode, with Adama's decision to abandon ship, left me thinking that there just needed to be one last huge battle that the Galactica would participant in. From this episode, looks like I won't be disappointed. Next episode is going to be huge!

The series has had so many unanswered questions throughout, that despite all the reveals over the past few episodes (particularly the "Final Five" explained), there is still so much they have to cram into the final episode; luckily it's two hours long. We should get the reveal of what actually happened to Starbuck when she "died" as well as Hera's connection to her and the Cylons. They've been dealing with this so the past couple episodes, so it's pretty much a guarantee that they'll tell us.

Hopefully too, we'll get an explanation of Baltar's "imaginary Six" and her plan. If this isn't revealed, I'll be fairly disappointed considering this has been a question since the very beginning.

I find myself debating whether the Galactica will survive the final battle. I can see it being destroyed in one last blaze of glory, but also I think a final victory, escape, and touching abandonment would be more fulfilling. That being said, I can also see the Galactica lasting thorough the series. The old girl could definitely pull off some sort of miraculous regeneration in the final moments of battle. I mean, they really haven't done anything with that Cylon guck that they've applied to the hull besides complain that it hasn't worked. With two episodes devoted to it, there's definitely some sort of surprise there. Consider the electrical control that Anders was able to exert and the hints at him controlling the jump drive. I find the idea that he wakes at a particularly grim moment next episode and sends an electrical pulse through the ship that ignites the Cylon guck and causes it the harder the hull giving it the strength to resist the battle. Maybe not quite that far, it could only be that he just manages to activate the jump drive in the last second and allow the ship to escape. Anyway, I'm just saying that Anders and the Cyclon guck haven't been dealt with fully and will more than likely play a pivotal role, there must be an ace up the writer's sleeves for an unexpected victory.

Anyway, I look forward to Friday.

House May Be Ruining My Life

I've be procrastinating over a few things lately. Blogging for one. Part of this is the marathon of colds I've had lately. Part is my preparation for my trip to Korea. However, a large part I think is also the awesomeness of House, M.D.. I've been watching the early season lately, since I missed a good portion of them first run. It's really hard to stop. I could easily watch 5 episodes in a night and not get anything done. It's especially bad because there's so much going on in an episode that it's easy to miss the twists and turn if you aren't paying attention. This makes it hard to multi-task and do other things at the same time.

I didn't really consider all of this about my House habit until my I offered the 2nd season to my friend Daniel and he quickly turned me down saying that the first season almost ruined his life by how good it was. It may be ruining mine as I type. I should go to sleep (as I'm sick again), but feel compelled to go watch just one more.

Star Trek Voyager

One of my plans for the next year (I know, this is lame) is to watch Star Trek Voyager. This is the only Star Trek series where I have not watched every episode. I seriously disliked voyager while it was on the air. It started out quite strong (my opinion at the time was that it had one of the strongest first seasons of all the Star Treks), but got seriously lame as the seasons went on. I re-watched a bit of the first season a few years ago, and realised that it wasn't as good as I remembered it.

I really don't understand the people who actually like Voyager. In my opinion, it's the crappiest Star Trek. In fact, most people agree with me (except those who hate Enterprise despite never watching more than the first 3 episodes. Seriously, that series got GOOD, especially by the 4th season, which was awesome but unfortunately too little too late ratings-wise).

Regardless, I've decided to watch Voyager objectively and keep an open mind. I'm on the 3rd episode, and my original opinion apparently stands, this isn't bad. Not great, but how many Star Treks had a great first season (try re-watching 1st season of TNG, I dare you). I look forward to this, I think, though I'll see how it gets.