I Love My Work, but more Star Trek?

I love writing, but have not done any writing on my upcoming books since my last post. I finished some major projects on the house and the garden kept me busy.

Most of all I was engaged in another form of work that I truly love. Not digging trenches, something I enjoy immensely, but drafting and design. Yes, some professional endeavors came my way and I grabbed them. I hope the opportunities keep flooding in but for now I am back to my novels.

Just as I organized my office to its highest degree of efficiency since forever, my wife decided to clean out the back closet. Now, I am not showing you here all the boxes and untold containers filling my office, the mess my wife created. What you see just a bit of that. I would never put my wife on the spot. I am simply showing you all the free space in my office in which I was able to work.

Actually, I jumped in to help my wife and everything was clean and organized in no time.

But then there is “Star Trek”.

I was following “Salvation” via Amazon Prime. Good science fiction is hard to come by, though this show is hardly top rate. It had some interesting perspectives, some highly flawed, and concepts that kept my interest.

So I go to watch the latest installment, available about five days after broadcast, and it was no longer free from that episode on. Well I had no chance of seeing it for free via broadcast because that show’s airing had passed and there was no warning of the change.

A gimmick, a cheap trick (not the band). Does CBS really think people will pay to see their shows when so much else is available for free?

Which Brings us to the latest Star Trek; “Star Trek Discovery”. It will be available only through their subscription site as I understand it.

So… let me see. Another Star Trek. Have you noticed how each remake/addition to the saga repeats the same stories?

The klingons on the war path. So original. Will there be Tribbles. You know the Klingons hate Tribbles.

They come across a world that duplicates some moment in earth’s history. Always, though the how’s have been changed to protect the innocent viewer.

A supernatural being judges the federation, the starship and its crew, against another violent species.

Time travel. We cannot forget time travel because it makes everything all better.

A member or members of the crew are caught in a phase variance and no one can see them. Or the old standby, duplicates of an existing prominent crew member. Alternate universes can never be overlooked, they pop up when you least desire them.

There will be a world that is not what it appears, a delusion, whether holographic or telepathic. And someone will be marooned somewhere. Red shirts beware; you are unlikely to survive.

Of course you will have the PC sexual undertones, moral dilemmas, good and evil, the potential of war ever present. Still, the ideal of the Federation expands across the galaxy, able to bring peace and unity where no one else has done before, …because they no longer have currency, legal tender, money, no more green.

Ughhh! I don not think so.

I really am settling down to write. No rehashed gibberish from my pen.

Thanks for reading.