The Spouse And Star Trek
So I received the complete first season of The Original Series Star Trek from Amazon recently. Contained within is a standard, CD sized booklet with photographs from some of the episodes. For some reason, I decided it would be fun to ask my wife Tanja, who doesn’t watch this stuff, if she could identify any of the much beloved, space faring characters.
Note: I completely sympathize her responses, as I’d be equally as clueless if we went shopping for sheets with varying thread counts.
1. Captain Kirk
T: That’s Captain Kirk.
2. Mr. Spock
T: That’s Spock.
3. Dr. McCoy
T: Kirk? No — Dr. Nimoy.
4. Scotty
T: I have no idea. The Russian guy? Why does he have an orange shirt? Is his name “Eddie”?
5. The Starship Enterprise
T: A UFO?
6. Sulu
T: Dr. Chen.
Me: No, that’s Sulu.
T: Zulu? Is he from Africa?
7. A Gorn
T: An alien.
Me: This is a Gorn.
T: Corn?
8. Uhura
T: That’s… the first African American on a sitcom?
Me: Star Trek is not a sitcom…
9: Khan Noonian Singh
T: A guy with bad hair.
I didn’t bother to continue on to the photographs of a Horta, or the Guardian of Forever.
But I love being married — cheap entertainment, and I haven’t laughed that hard in quite a while. I can hardly wait for season two.