WB Post 4- Star Trek

I watched episode 24 called This side of paradise. It actually got straight to the storyline and was pretty good, it showed different sides of the characters that I may have not have known otherwise. This particular episode takes place on a planet called Omarcron Sandy 3, it a federation colony led by a man named Elias Sandoval. When the crew lands on this planet they find that everyone is in perfect health, but they should not be alive because the planet is contaminated with a deadly form of radiation. Captain Kirk order that a small crew go to investigate which included himself, Dr. McCoy, Mr. Spock, and Mr. Sulu. Shortly after arrival they find that there are no living animals on the farms or any other living thing for that matter other than these seemingly healthy humans. Elias Sandoval explains to Captain Kirk and his crew that the philosophy of Omarcron Sandy 3 is "Men should resort back to a more simple life," he gives several examples such as no vehicles or weapons allowed only harmony. After Elias is finished explaining the perfections of this planet ( good climate, perfect amounts of rain), a female named Leila appears from another room and locks eyes with Mr. Spock. She mentions that they had met 6 years prior on earth, but no other explanation is spoke of yet, until.... Leila takes Mr.Spock to show him how the colony has survived. As they arrive at the site of were the spores are growing, Mr Spock is suddenly sprayed by the spore and becomes enlightened with happiness, emotions and tells Leila that he loves her. Captain Kirk finds Mr. Spock smiling, laughing and hanging from a tree in the pasture and realizes something very wrong has happened. Eventually a spore is taken on board of the ship and infects the entire crew, leaving Captain Kirk to figure out how to get his crew to overcome the effects of the spore. It doesn't take long for him to realize that anger or any form of strong emotions will rid them of this "happy pill" as Mr. Spock calls it. As he gets crew members one at a time to come back to reality, Mr. Spock is left to tell Leila that he cannot stay with her because he has responsibilities on the ship and cannot stay with her. The crew comes back on board and they leave the paradise behind.....

My comparison will be with the New Star Trek movie, since I have just finished watching it as well. I believe the biggest change in science fiction and movies alike, are how the subjects have continued to change to be more timely. For instance, a decade or more ago people were more interested in aliens and how futuristic all the gadgets and spaceships could be, because everyone believed this was a real futuristic possibility. People now a days are still interested in those same things to only a minor degree, but rather the story lines and how well they can relate to a topic -in a futuristic way- is more important. I believe it is mainly due to how in science fiction the world should have already had flying cars, and a robot maids like the Jetson's had. In the New Star Trek movie we were able to relate to it more easily because it brought in family, fear disappointment and success, but also included the cool fight scenes, romance and of course crazy new weapons and technology.

BSG

Well, I'm not really sure where to begin........ I thought the show was pretty boring, what was all the sex scenes about? They were a bit much for me. I was a little confused because there was so much going on and I had no back ground information to help me understand exactly where all this was coming from. But my dad told me this show (the original) is where we got the name for my first dog as a child "Starbuck," which I never knew until I had to watch the show for class.

My favorite poem

A Word to Husbands by Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.

Even though this poem is short, It says everything we need to know -and it's funny.-
I tell my husband this all the time, when im right and he's wrong I gloat all day and keep reminding him just incase he forgot that I was right (im usually not the one whose right, so when I am, I live it up). But on the other hand no woman likes to hear when she's wrong, atleast not this one;0)

Normal Again

I really liked this episode! It made me sit and really think for a minute, whether Buffy was really in the hospital or not. Especially when she admitted to Willow that she had been in one before. I never realized how close the two of them were until Willow seemed surprised that there was something about Buffy that she didn't know.

My Favorite Show

My favorite tv show at the moment, would have to be Desperate Housewives. I would describe it as a night time soap opera! Although I have never liked watching soaps -they are so dramatic- I can't help but LOVE this one... They cover pretty current topics, such as marriage, divorce, pregnancy, affairs, the struggles of owning your own business and especially about how people think that they know someone, when in reality they really dont know them at all. Everyone has a past, secret or problem that they dont want anyone to know about, because in Wisteria Lane -thats the street that everyone on the show lives on- everyone's lives are perfect, or so they seem.
On the last episode one of the Susan thought that her ex-husbands, ex-girlfriend tried to kill her daughter, and hired a detective to figure it out, and realized that the detective that she hired was a girl she used to make fun of in high school-and she was still holding onto her grudge.-Then Lynette found out about an affair that one of the other neighbors was having with a married man. And Gabrielle is a rich girl who used to be a model, whose daughter has to be home schooled because Gabrielle got in an argument with her daughters principal and got her daughter kicked out of the school. The only problem is that the private school that she wants to put her daughter in is booked, so she must home school her until there is an opening to enroll. Unfortunately she is not very good at teaching, and the tension is tearing her and her daughter farther and farther away from each other. So Gabrielle's husband Carlos finds out that the maid he hired to clean his home is really teaching his daughter math, because Gabrielle couldn't handle it anymore.
I hope this makes at least one person want to watch the show. It is a really exhilarating, I promise!!!

Common place problem

I seem to be having the same problem that many of you guys are! Making it sound different then my last paper. I am talking about the Mirror Stage, and I pulled my description of it from my analytical paper. But I want to explain it more in detail and not so formally.

Common Place

I think my paper is going to be about the "Mirror stage." Because I think it's important to know why humans are forever seeking a unity of self, And why as a infant we possess this quality, but how and why it is lost when we are adults. Why do we need this quality to feel complete, and what are some ways we try to fill this void. Sounds pretty interesting, atleast I think so :0)

Quoting

I have a internet source that is not by one particular person infact it is by several different people, but, one the same track of mind. So my problem is quoting them as a whole, since many of them are basically saying the same thing. Is it okay too quote a site rather than one particular person? Or should I just pick one and say that it is "backed up " by several others?

Another problem I seem to be having is using the definition of a word. How do you put that in a paper? Do you just simply say in the webster dictionary the word "Helpless, is defined as lacking or deprived of strength or power."?