Star Trek and Vocabulary – The Pathetic Link

I think I’m watching too much TV. 

The odd thing about that is that I cancelled my satellite subscription last July.  It’s that cursed Netflix!  It delivers TV shows to my house and I watch them without commercial interruption. 

I’ve been watching (well, mostly re-watching) Star Trek: The Next Generation.   One night after finishing an episode wherein the balding Captain and the pasty Android have enjoyed a Holmesian adventure in the holo-deck, I lay back in bed and suddenly I start thinking:  “You know, TNG really has some high caliber writing.  Not the stories, really, but the vocabulary.” 

Of all the things I can be thinking about that’s what pops into my head, how well Picard and Data speak.  I start thinking about how I could write some review about TNG and complain about how slow some of the shows are, but, wowzee, could those 24th century people speak!  Stupid.  Just stupid.

Obviously I’ve just become another dumb American obsessed with entertainment.

Well, anyway, speaking of words and vocabulary, here’s some words I’d like to research:

• retract
• retaliate
• resent
• schalk
• lewd
• tinsel
• crafty
• artful
• kind
• demure
• minion
• ringleader
• menial
• villain
• miser
• miserable
• passion
• talent

If you know anything about the origins of these words or have a good link to a reputable etymology site, please leave a comment.

Review: Star Trek – The 2009 version

Let me get this out of the way right off:  I’m a Trekker (not a Trekkie, that’s just a novice fan).  Nonetheless, I’ll try not to be a die-hard nitpicker (though, I don’t see a need to “reboot” the franchise).

J.J. Abrams concept sounded stellar a year ago when I first heard it:  go back to the beginning of Star Trek and recount the adventures of the youthful crew of the famed starship Enterprise in their Academy days, before the events of the original series.  When I got wind of the fact that they would all actually be on the Enterprise together (which is impossible, if you know anything about the Star Trek timeline – all right, all right, I’ll let it go!), I knew some time travel was involved.

What do you know, I was right.  Enter Nero, a “most disturbed” Romulan from the future (in the Star Trek cosmos) who wishes to take revenge upon Spock – and at the same time eliminate the Federation, thus ensuring the supremacy of his homeworld, Romulus.  Bad ol’ Nero follows the older Spock through a wormhole in space-time and doth do events begin to go awry.

Do they ever.

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