Space nerd
Kirk was right, we can fight our instinct for violence a day at a time. We can keep our feet on the ground as we reach for the stars. I was a kid when I first heard that--like Dani Poole.
The socks tell the tale, with Younger Daughter's latest gift addition to my collection of stellar hosiery. Sock it to me?
I'll own it. I am a "big space nerd" (I prefer enthusiast) and have turned my wife into one too. We've been binge-watching Apple TV's "For All Mankind," with its alternative history premise that the Soviets got to the moon first.
Commander Poole was just a few words into her soliloquy last night (Season 2,episode 9) when I cottoned to its source: Star Trek, the original series. Season 1, episode 23. Kirk's concession, we're killers "but we're not going to kill today." I was watching the first time, back in '66. The message still seems right. Lots of humanoids still need to hear it. [Watch on YouTube]
The show has been awfully kind to Ronald Reagan, so far at least, making him out to be more the peace-loving statesman than I think real history will allow. But he had his good days, as actors will.