A few boring things.

1. I'm sorry Lizziey. I just couldn't get up or think this morning.

2. Some of my friends have gotten into the ill-advised habit of trying to speak to the people who post entries on syndicated sites. You can tell when a site is a syndicated site because 1. the icon next to the username is a satelite dish and 2. they start off with a link to the real entry. If you post a comment in response to a syndicated entry, the person who wrote that entry will not be able to read it. You must go to their actual site to tell them things.

3. I'm done with season 4. Since Xiggy is visiting, I'll watch season 5 after she's gone.

4. Pastime is one word, and it has one t.

List of my favorite B5 quotes, for help in iconning by people who want to help me.

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Taking a break now.

So, I was thinking about Star Trek and conformity....

And in my thoughts, I was rantling-ing about how we keep getting these characters who are not-human, and how a big part of their development is showing them how they really want to be human. Human, of course, means NT.

And then I was thinking about how this push for normality goes beyond mental normality. Geordie's visor makes him able to see differently from other people. In some cases, this is an advantage - he can see things we can't. And yet, consistently, his big wish is to see normally. Why? Because that's better?

I can forgive Star Trek for a lot of things, like the idiotic Universal Translators (not possible, as near as I can see) and the fact that aliens all look human and have human facial expressions (cheaper, easier, kinder on the actors) and the fact that Earth culture = American culture (tell me why Picard quotes a lot of Shakespeare, but not much Moliere. I often wonder how different Star Trek would be if it had been done somewhere else) and the anti-religion bent (hey, I'm an agnostic, I'm not whining) but... this is starting to irritate me.

I don't want to re-invent the wheel here, so I went to google to see what has already been said. And can you believe that I didn't find anything? Clearly, I'm using the wrong search criteria. I cannot possibly be the only person who's wondered along these lines.

If I decide I am, expect a mild, and probably less-well-educated-than-it-should-be rant soon.