It's A Bop What Can I Say

it's a bop what can i say

If Star Trek was Seinfeld, ep 2

// ep 1 here

young sarek & amanda

disco spock 🍑

the wedding

(screencaps from tours of the Children's Museum, CT)

even tho i watched TOS for the first time as an adult, it felt nostalgic and familiar to me because the enterprise looked just like the science center i grew up going to in CT. the building was worn down and underfunded, but was cared for by a dedicated staff, and the place was so evocative of TOS atmospherically. there was even a life-size model of a whale out front (they named her connie..)

i got to stay there overnight in 3rd grade, in a sleeping bag on the carpet. we woke up before sunrise to the sound of the AC humming in the vents, and i walked past the lizard tanks and down the long glass hallway in my blue pajamas, cold and silent and awaiting, a wonderful liminal space with the birds chirping outside. i felt like i was floating in the dark with them and the feeling has never left me.

we went down the spiral staircase past the turtle room and to the gengras planetarium for a starshow. the seats were red leather and the lights showed us how the stars and planets had moved while we slept. i was still half in a REM state and it felt like a vision.

watching TOS for the first time 20 years later was like coming home, the thrill the science officers must feel, waking up in the dark to run labs, cold and silent in their blue pajamas and half-dreaming.