I just remembered that today, April 5th, is the 22nd anniversary of my earliest post on the Internet. Or, at least, the 22nd anniversary of the oldest remaining footprint of mine on the Internet. Here’s a link to the post, from Google Groups’ archive of USENET. And, here’s the post, as it’s short and sweet:

If anybody remembers “Space Seed”, Khan spent quite a while
reading the library tapes of the big E. I remember Kirk
mentioning something like “You’ve been using our computer quite
extensively.”( or something like that ). He’d be bound to stumble
across some Klingon proverbs and trivia of the 23rd century.

Here’s something to think about, if old Gentleman Jim hadn’t been
so nice and polite to Khan, by letting him read all the library
files, in his first attack at the Enterprise from Reliant, Khan
wouldn’t have known “right where to hit us” and might not have
killed Scotty’s nephew, Peter Preston.

The reason I’m bringing up Peter’s death is that his death may
have affected Scotty’s repair ability. If our favorite engineer
was so greif stricken that it slowed down the speed of fixing
the warp engines, thus Spock might not have had to make the
final sacrifice, Kirk wouldn’t have had to steal the Enterprise,
David wouldn’t have died, and so on …

I realize that I’m rambling on, but thought that many things could
have been changed if Kirk hadn’t shown Khan the library files.
Hmmm, I wonder what could be changed with the Guardian of Forever,
the slingshot effect, and the sort.
Hmmmmmmm…..

Sean Duncan

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Yes, the 14 year old me was really psychoanalyzing Scotty’s grief from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and yes, I apparently left a weird snippet at the end. Cut me some slack, I didn’t get out much.

Given the context, I suppose this is as good a time as any to announce that I’m going to bring back my ridiculously nerdy Star Trek-themed blog, fesari.us, sometime soon. I put up some new, temporary WordPress themes at the site the other day, but it will eventually be re-skinned to look more like the original, MovableType site that I took down in 2004. Every few years, I feel like blogging about a forty-year old TV show. I’m not sure I have anything left to say on the most uncool topic of uncool topics, but, what the hell, why not? Rather than an academic tone, I’ll be babbling there with a bit more self-deprecation and wit, I hope.

Finally, my brother and I are revamping our baseball blog at bloopcurve.com, which has also fallen fallow in the past year. Hopefully, we’ll be updating it with information about our fantasy baseball teams, the Red Sox, and (eventually) the Madison Mallards.