One of Those Posts...

First off, here's a recent excerpt from the Web comic XKCD. If that's not devastatingly brilliant I don't know what is.



So yeah, I'm going to write one of those posts, dear readers. You have been forewarned.

With respect to the above, it gave me a little pause. Talk about an encapsulation of woman in this humble blogger's life of past, present, and likely future, eh? You'd think I'd have learned by now.

But no matter, that's not what I wanted to write about. Instead, let's perform the ultimate display of geek-fu and tie my love life into the movie...Star Trek: Generations. Shut up, it was on last night!

There's a scene in that movie that is actually stunningly poignant and moving. Once he has been sucked into the "temporal nexus," Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard gets a chance to realize his own personal definition of ultimate joy: a traditional Christmas celebration with the fictional wife and family he never had. You see, he has had many gifts and opportunities in his life and career, but the one thing he really wanted all along was the one thing he never had.

What makes it particularly moving is that, as only Picard can do, he manages to realize that this newfound reality is not, in fact, real. Despite the warmth and joy, he knows this was not the path he chose for his life, and eventually rejects it to return to "reality" (with the help of a certain James T. Kirk) and save the day from the evil Dr. Soran.

So, I guess I need to find my great quest that will save the universe.