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A Story of a Boy and a Girl and a Universe

July 25, 2016October 20, 2015

Looking back, I wonder how we learned anything before the internet, but somehow I read that George Lucas was planning to make a total of nine films in the series, each three years apart. I was thirteen, and would have to wait until I was forty to see them all.

Spock, My Childhood Hero and Introduction to Philosophy

September 8, 2016February 27, 2015

Star Trek was perhaps my first bona fide obsession. I simply could not get enough. I watched. I read. I wrote fan fiction. I pondered episodes and made up new ones. No one else in my family or the school shared my obsession, but I didn’t care. And, through it all, I was most obsessed with Spock.