Saturday, September 09, 2006
Forget
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Today is the 40th anniversary of Star Trek. We arrived in Denver in '66. Therefore we got in on Star Trek at the very beginning. We all loved it and watched it religiously. The only other TV program which comes to mind in this same category is, ... Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
We loved them all. But it seems to me now that I think back on all of those glorious episodes, that the singlemost memorable (and possibly 'important') episode was the episode where Spock was required to erase Kirk's poisonous memory of an unfortunate past. Spock put his hand on Kirk's head and whispered something like, '... forget'
It struck me immediately that this was glorious advice: you must forget!
You must forget.
Today is the 40th anniversary of Star Trek. We arrived in Denver in '66. Therefore we got in on Star Trek at the very beginning. We all loved it and watched it religiously. The only other TV program which comes to mind in this same category is, ... Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
We loved them all. But it seems to me now that I think back on all of those glorious episodes, that the singlemost memorable (and possibly 'important') episode was the episode where Spock was required to erase Kirk's poisonous memory of an unfortunate past. Spock put his hand on Kirk's head and whispered something like, '... forget'
It struck me immediately that this was glorious advice: you must forget!
You must forget.
