Captain's Log: Dead Fictional Girlfriends Report
Last July, I reported part one of the findings from my multi-year "Dead Fictional Girlfriends Research Project." Now, after 13 months of additional research, I have prepared Part Two: Captain James T. Kirk. The Franchise Star Trek was a low-budget sci-fi series that got summarily canceled after 3 seasons, and then had a major impact on literally every aspect of American culture, including our language, our space program, and our telecommunications science. Part of this impact came from the extremely efficient way in which it built a world. For example, have a look at Episode 1, Scene 1, which aired at 8:30 PM on September 8, 1966: To sum up, in the first 45 seconds of airtime, this show establishes: The main characters live on a spaceship; Their first officer is an alien; This ship is orbiting an inhabited alien world; People can materialize (beam) from place to place; This spaceship's missions include medical examinations of alien archaeologists, one of