I’ve had a long couple of days so far this week.  All fun so far!  Last night I went to another film maker’s meet up  and then today I got to go to the taping for a special episode of Let’s Make a Deal! hosted by Wayne Brady.  I can’t say anything about the show itself until this episode airs and they haven’t a projected airdate yet as of filming this morning.  It was a special episode because through it we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek.  Star Trek was pretty big thing in house growing up.  Principally because of dad.  It was one of those things he grew up with and in turn, made sure it was ever omnipresent in our home.  Whenever there wasn’t a Lakers game on we were watching The Next Generation.  And then later on most Saturday nights, The Original Series was on.  I’ll admit, there was a time I claimed to like Star Wars more and in fact to not like Star Trek at all.  First, that was a dark time for fandoms when it was one or the other, NO IN BETWEEN!  I know better now.  And second, I was young child.  Not liking Star Trek was the greatest rebellious act I could muster.  There’s been hundreds of hours of material created by people more familiar with Star Trek than I who explain the cultural significance of Star Trek.  You should find their content.  I’ll just say briefly, that Star Trek inspired much of our modern technology.  In the sixties we saw Dr. “Bones” McCoy read a person’s vitals with a handheld device wirelessly connected to a small computer that would then take that data and nearly instantaneous diagnose and extrapolate a suitable treatment.  Now, we have the Apple Watch that can record a rudimentary echocardiogram and transmit that information to your doctor.  The Tricorder, despite being technology in a science fiction series still felt like magic in the way it could access most if not all established human knowledge.  And now our cell phones being constantly connected to the internet and quite literally putting the sum of human knowledge at our finger tips.  Granted far too many people are still too dumb to recognize these things because they’re told not to.  Alas, just in the time since Star Trek was created, the average human lifespan has increased by a minimum of ten years.  Just since the beginning of 2026 I’ve caught posts and articles of something like seven or eight people having birthdays between one-hundred and one-hundred and five.  Last December Dick Van Dyke turned one-hundred.  In just sixty years we advanced in particular, medicine roughly as much as the previous one-hundred years.  That may not seem like much until you consider THAT progress was roughly equivalent to possibly the three-hundred years before then.

I often rail against organized religion…pretty much every chance I get, however, my point remains valid.  Science fiction is among the greatest necessities of human existence.  Insomuch that it precedes science fact.  Meanwhile, the superstition of religion, as exemplified profoundly in recent years, serves only those whose bastardize it for personal gain.  And in turn, only functions to hold us back as a people.

     I look forward to a time when this people actually move forward instead of clinging to fairly tales.  The way things are going, it’s unlikely even I’ll live that long.

     At any rate, I need to get back to the job hunt now.  I’m just waiting for one more refund to arrive, I need to finally get my California License, and then I need to be starting at least one job this week.  So, until next time.  Have fun!

Whoops.  I intended to do this earlier but I had a job interview, donated plasma, and then had to take care of something I can’t talk about right now.  Anywho, I mentioned before that I was going to talk about how working in Stargate Universe to a new series.  If I were so fortunate to be involved with a new Stargate series.  And again, if anyone can point out my posts to Martin Gero, please do so.  All I need is an opportunity to talk him into hiring me so I can be a part of Stargate.

     Now, here’s what I’m thinking to tie in Universe with a new series.  To start, Destiny jumping to the next galaxy didn’t quite go according to plan.  As I imagine it, Eli managed to fix the stasis pod in time.  However he’s woken up early per a new protocol he programmed that would revive him when a viable star enters sensor range.  This protocol works perfectly except it happened just nine or ten months in.  A rogue star born on the very edge of a fledgling galaxy and flung into the void barely grasped by the galaxy’s gravity.  Now awake again, Eli manages to steer Destiny into this star and having a considerable boost of power, he programs some orders into the repair robots and sets them about their work.  He takes some time to check in with Homeworld Security and working with MacKay they set up some plans for regular check-ins, and with recent developments in the advancement and progress of the naqudah generators, they manage to open wormholes from Atlantis to Destiny, sustaining a stable wormhole for 3.8 seconds using a dozen MK. 15 generators and effectively burning them out in the process.  This is not long enough to deploy fresh personnel but they do work up a process of sending through a care package.  Some supplies like food and water, newer tablets with accessible portions of the Ancient database, and possibly a generator or two.

     Eli goes in and out of stasis over time.  Researching whenever he has a moment, repairing what he can, working out.  If you haven’t seen David Blue lately that last bit will make more sense later.  As the robots repair things the overall condition of the ship improves and gradually the power issues become more manageable.  But by that time it’s been closer to fifteen years.

     The stasis pods on Destiny are at best first generation.  More likely they’re prototype in production.  Bètatest in a sense.  While life function is sustained, the whole aging problem isn’t entirely worked out.  Anyone comes back for this part of the story simply aged somewhat.  Anyone who doesn’t come want to come back, their characters are either locked in their stasis pods or their pods malfunctioned in one way or another and their lost.  Again, very old technology and such flaws were anticipated.

      I would write this as an episode later in the season to answer the obvious questions that arise from viewers seeing an established plan and process for communicating and supporting Destiny.  All of that introduced in the end of the first episode when MacKay transmits a care package to Destiny.  We then cut to Destiny in homage to the pilot episode of Universe with the gate spinning toward activation.  Then Eli is revived and when he goes to the gate room we see an apparatus set up by Eli to catch travelers and cargo coming through the gate, as he walks into the room to look over the fresh supplies and that’s when we reveal the new Eli.  He reads a note from MacKay and it’s time for him to get to work.

     Yeah, that’s how I envision, and only I envision it seeing as I’m not involved with any Stargate projects as it is.  Again, if anyone can put me in touch with Martin Gero, maybe we can make this a reality.

I was watching Suddenly Susan last night/this morning, however it is you perceive time.  And often times I gravitate to David Strickland’s performance.  He was always very funny.  Even his few appearances on Mad About You where he played a strait-laced bureaucrat tool.  He managed to find little things in that character that the character wouldn’t find funny but everyone else does.  On Suddenly Susan, his character of Todd Stites was a kind of ditzy naïveté.  He always found the funniest thing possible for Todd to do.  I can only imagine the outtakes and gag reels we never got to see on TV.  I never knew him personally, nor do I have any contact with anyone who knew him and I understand it’s very possible he wasn’t great company off-screen.  But his personal issues aside, the season three finale of Suddenly Susan suggests to me that he’s one of those people that everyone loved to be around.  It’s one of those pieces of television that always gets me weeping like a baby.  When I was a child I was always drawn to him whenever I would watch this show not knowing just much I relate to him.  Not unlike my affinity for Robin Williams.  Both men had tragic and devastating monsters following them through everything they did, and yet, they responded by everyone around them laugh.  When he died, I heard one person in particular mentioned how you could look at any photo of Robin and no matter how grande his smile his eyes always looked sad.  That hit right me right in my duodenum.  I was already weepy before I started this and needed a funny sounding anatomy word.  David Strickland was very much the same, in my observation.  I guess I always responded to this being someone who at a very young age, also had to learn to fake a smile.  Being an abused child in the nineties, especially growing up in a christian church, you don’t really get to be open about things without someone calling a hotline.  So, we had to fake a smile until we could get away for awhile.  So, I related to this and it seems I gravitated to people who we know now in retrospect, were going through things like I was.

I just wanted to put this out there because since I was a child I’ve been a fan of his and it turns out not just because Todd was a goofy clown chimping about.  He was going through some things leading up to his death, and anyone who knows me knows that there are some choices that I don’t judge like everyone else does.  And I have perspective on such matters that most don’t.  But I am sad that we didn’t get to enjoy more of his work.  Ultimately, we just have to accept that he’s better off now and that we need to make each other laugh.  The little I know of him, I’m pretty confident that he would at least agree with that last point.

This wound up being more than I anticipated so, no Stargate talk this time.  Probably tomorrow.

In reference to my post yesterday, I made it out to the movie last night and yes, it’s a really good movie!  I need to do some homework and find out when it releases so I can talk about it.  I will say it’s a solid film.  It maintains a degree of obscurity as to what genre it is mostly because it fits into a few genres very comfortably and NOT because it’s oddly written or just disjointed.  It’s an interesting and well crafted story.  And superbly executed.  Honestly, it looks to be about 97% complete so, ideally this film will come out soon so I can talk about it.

     I haven’t fucked up through today enough yet to have much to write at this moment.  I blew an interview because I didn’t get home in time.  And of course I had to run out and get things done to try and manage an internet connection so that I could take the interview so, of course everything fell apart five minutes into the day.  It’s the Story of my life, as they say.  I am also working on a short film that highlights some of my more traumatic and painful life experiences.  And because it’s me, the characters on screen will be portrayed with pipe cleaner people, origami models, and action figures with no or at least super ambiguous copyright concerns.  The idea with that is being mentally ill as I am, distorting certain aspects of our memories is a common used coping mechanism.  And if I’m going to be re-enacting my experiences of being beaten and robbed by my “mother”, you can bet your ass I’m going to have fun with it.  I have a couple of the pipe cleaner people made and I’ve started writing it.  That’s about as far as I am on that one right now.

     I think this is seriously my ‘thing’ now.  I get on here daily whining and begging for a job on Stargate.  Once again, if anyone reading this happens to know Martin Gero, please get this to him so he can what I’m doing and I can talk him into giving me a job writing Stargate.

     One kind of big thing never really dealt with is the alien ship in the episode titled Grace.  The Prometheus encounters an unfamiliar shift and we only see a handful of shots of its exterior and nothing of the people on board.  Another people in the Milky Way capable of interstellar travel is certainly worth more screen time than this.  I have considered from time to time that it might be good for that ship to belong to the mimic aliens from the episode Foothold.  Now, though, with a new series we could probably expand on both peoples.  The mimics clearly have reason to be not-so-fond of humans and in particular SGC personnel.  One of my fantasies has always been a more ongoing conflict with them.  And then of course, new people in the galaxy with space ships is ALWAYS fun storytelling.

     So, yeah, here’s my latest example to demonstrate my affection for the Stargate franchise.  Tomorrow, I’ll write a little of how to tie back in Stargate Universe.

I’m heading out to another screening.  I can’t write anything about it anytime soon so, DON’T ASK.  I’m looking forward to it.  Since I’ve been back home I’ve scored passes to now six films and so far they’ve all been great!  I need follow up and find out embargo expirations but ideally I should be able to finally review one film in a couple months.  I’m really excited for that one.  So many NeeEeERRRddds are going to bitching and whining about it and I hate though shit-fuck, know-nothing nerds what give nerds a bad name.  And yes, I do know what’s going to happen because it’s already happening.  And has happened EXACTLY every other time a movie with certain characteristics has been released.  Just so we’re clear, sexism.  In any case, I should probably sit down and write these reviews now.  There’s no telling how much longer I’ll be alive enough to do anything later.  My point is that it’s hard to not talk about these movies when I get to see them.  That said, I fully respect review embargoes and absolutely understand why we’re not allowed to review them.  For example, this movie slated for release in June.  I watched it last December.  And while I may be able to watch a rough cut of a movie and see what it will be I get that most people just can’t be relied upon for such discretion.  Again, I can’t wait to talk about these movies and post my reviews finally!

     I haven’t written more of my Stargate script yet.  After I posted yesterday I took a nap.  After being in this apartment for a year now and ever on the verge of eviction, I finally set up one of my shelves and used the bookcase it replaced to hold a bunch of figures and collectibles.  And then a little tidying up and getting ready to go to the movie tonight.  And I have a job interview scheduled for tomorrow morning.  Providing I can get a clear streaming signal and can actually get onto zoom for the interview.  Yeah, my situation isn’t exactly getting better.  And no, this interview is NOT with Martin Gero.  So, I’m going to do this again.  If anyone reading this has contact with Martin Gero, by all means, please show this to him.  There are few things I want to do more than be a part of the Stargate universe.  To that point, I started outlining a story of a young human slave.  Born to a lower caste of farming slaves, he rises through the ranks to ultimately become lotar of his Goa’uld god.  Suspicions cast against him through years of superiors and rivals dying around him.  Eventually he gets his Goa’uld overlord alone.  Confessing to his god the murders and subterfuge he did indeed commit.  Of course, this conversation designed to buy him time before his god decides to follow through with this slave’s execution that he declared in the beginning of this exchange.  Although really, this slave was more accurately buying himself time while the poison works to kill his god’s host.  Finally taking the Goa’uld for his own.

     Sooo, yeah.  Just one more Stargate story I’d like to tell professionally.  Again, it would mean a lot to me if someone could get this in front of Martin Gero so that I can talk him into giving me a job.  Thanks in advance!