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Episode 9: Arena, part 1 – The Gym Class Horror

“Phaser banks, lock on to the enemy vessel. Stand by for firing orders. All hands, this is the Captain. We are going into battle. All hands, battle stations. Red alert. I repeat, red alert. This is no drill. This is no drill.” Captain Kirk in the Star Trek original series episode “Arena.” “Bob and weave!Continue reading “Episode 9: Arena, part 1 – The Gym Class Horror”

Episode 5: Mirror, Mirror – The Path to the Nightcage

I move in slow motion, trapped in the crowd after a concert at Music Hall in downtown Houston. My friends, Michael and Steven, slowly move in syncopation as we awkwardly descend the steps of the balcony, taking tiny steps to assure we don’t kick or trip someone else. I am wearing grey parachute pants, aContinue reading “Episode 5: Mirror, Mirror – The Path to the Nightcage”

Episode 4: Amok Time – Triggering my Trekkie Sleeper Cell

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” – Spock in Amok Time. In June of 2001, I lived in a loft space in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Bushwick hadn’t yet become the art and fashionContinue reading “Episode 4: Amok Time – Triggering my Trekkie Sleeper Cell”

Episode 3: The Space Seed – Uncharted Paths Away From Home

“It is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” Captain Kirk quoting Milton’s Paradise Lost. The opening phrase: “Space, the final frontier,” introduced me to the mission of the starship Enterprise, to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before. This phrase,Continue reading “Episode 3: The Space Seed – Uncharted Paths Away From Home”

Episode 2: The Changeling – Y’all Hallows’ Eve

I have photos from childhood Halloweens of my sister Michaelle and I wearing standard store-bought costumes that I have no memory of. There is one of me dressed as a race car driver, which must have been bought by my parents since I never cared about race car drivers, unless they were the doe-eyed, animeContinue reading “Episode 2: The Changeling – Y’all Hallows’ Eve”