What the hell, I’ll keep watching Star Trek
I’m going to open my discussion of Star Trek : The Original series season two with some unexpected disappointment. Why not, eh? My journey through Star Trek has taken place almost entirely offline. You got my summary post of season one , and I’ve exchanged messages with a few friends, but nearly all of my discussion about the show has occurred in reality, with the friends and coworkers I interact with normally. They’ve been very — impressively, even — good at allowing me to come to my own conclusions. Very, very rarely do they tell me ahead of time of a development to come or how an episode is overall received by fans. When it does happen, it’s been stuff that’s pretty obvious. (Chekov joining the cast for the second season, “The City on the Edge of Forever” being rightly beloved, etc.) Beyond that, they’ve volunteered very little that I didn’t bring up — or question — myself in the course of conversation. And yet — and yet! — there is one thing I heard many times over: Se