The Pnictogen Wing

I sort of like the old Star Trek episode The Omega Glory. It's offensive but goofy, and it's even a bit suspenseful at times. Morgan Woodward (I wonder if he's related to Alyx) does a good job with the villain, and he gets to kick Kirk's ass a couple times, which is rare for original Star Trek.

Also...it feels weirdly appropriate to the times. Flagrant Sinophobia? A fellow who'll cross any line in pursuit of immortality? "Free-dom? That is a worship word!" wouldn't be out of place as a slogan for the Musk crowd.

~Chara

gotta watch "Spock's Brain" every so often, right? ~Chara

The TOS Star Trek episode "Obsession", in which Capt. Kirk risks a shipment of perishable medical supplies to hunt down a strange gaseous creature that eats hemoglobin, contains an amusing detail: the creature can be detected by scanning for a fictional chemical element, "dikironium", but the creature is able to conceal itself from scans by constantly shifting its own elemental composition. It's able to transmute itself!

Now that's a remarkable trait for an organism to have. It's difficult to see how it'd even happen at all, without magic. But there's no magic in Star Trek, right? =p

An ability for an organism to transmute one element to another could be quite useful. Imagine shedding a lot of mass suddenly by transmuting a solid substance into gaseous elements, for example.

~Chara

I'd somehow forgotten that you despised Captain Kirk, Frisk. ~Chara

I'm a bit dismayed that you ever got to liking him. What's that line? "Swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood"? It's supposed to be mere trash talk but it seems accurate enough. ~Frisk