Now we're living separate lives (Part 70)....

 Separated At Birth?

So, the square of Mayberry, including the columned front of Sheriff Andy Taylor's jail, and the town from the Star Trek episode "Miri" which had gone through a pathogenic apocolypse, including a columned front of some building, tell me, were they....

Separated At Birth? 

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Get up and move it, to the music (Part 605)....

 MOTIVATION

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5570).....

 Check This Out!

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My birthday song, my happy world (Part 339)...

 Badass Birthdays

On this date, in 1962, in Malaysia, Michelle Yeoh was born. 

Let's take a look at some of the many roles of this amazing actress with a four decade career!

Tomorrow Never Dies (1999)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005)

The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emporer (2008)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)

Star Trek Discovery (2017-2020)

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Shang-Chi and the Legends Of The Ten Rings (2021)

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022) [Best Actress Oscar, and Golden Globe winner]

A Haunting In Venice (2023)

Wicked (2024)

Wicked For Good (2025)

And these are just films/tv shows I've heard of.  But seeing that list along, surely shows just how much of a badass she is!

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5549)....

 Check This Out!

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5535)....

 Check This Out!

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5525)....

 Check This Out!

I detest AI, for it's theft of other's work and it's destruction of the enviornment.  I ususally just scroll right past as I click my tongue and feel superior for not contributing to the A1 hellscape.  

But sometimes, sometimes, there's something that, despite A1, deserves to be observed. 

And here we have Muppets On The Bridge Of  The Starship Enterprise!

I love the Muppts.  And remember, they just last Sunday played the largest stage in the world: the halfime show of the World Cup finals!

Muppets rock!

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My birthday song, my happy world (Part 328)....

 Badass Birthdays

On this date, in 1934, in Birmingham Alabama, Louise Fletcher was born. 

Her movie career spanned 1963 to 2020 (57 years).   Her TV career spanned 1958 to 2017 (59 years).  She has recieved an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe among other accolades. 

However, she's a badass for two roles, one in movies and one in television. 

Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"

Kai Winn in "Star Trek Deep Space 9"

Total badass. 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5497).....

 Check This Out!

I can't believe I missed this anniversary earlier in the year!

Thirty years ago this year, in January of 1996, one of, if not THE, worst Star Trek episode ever aired: Star Trek Voyager's "Threhold".

This is the one that, for whatever reasons, Paris and Janeway 'evolved' into the future of humanity, those.....lizard/salamander things in the pic.  And worse still, they stole a shuttlecraft and went to some planet and once the rest of the crew found them, it was discovered they had...mated and their offspring were running around like the lizards they were.   Upon returned to Voyager The Doctor used some kind of weirdly named mumble jumbo and 'de-evolved' Paris and Janeway back to normal.  Which meant in the end, the ship resumed it's course to the Alpha Quadrant and everything was back to normal.

Except....

What happened to their offspring?  Maybe that planet where they were left is now filled with a heavily advanced society of 'evolved' humans?  

Damn, what a STUPID episode.

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I took the road less traveled by (Part 4100)....

 MAPS!

Today we have the floorplan on Ten Foward, on the Enterprise-D, including Guinan's office (which we saw once) and the lavatory (which we never saw). 

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The truth is I never left you (Part 1750)...

 TRUTH In Spite Of Convicted Felon Mar-A-Taco tRump

Seems pretty accurate to me.  

IYKYK

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It's so cool to be uncool (Part 791).....

 What's Cool? 

"I would advise yas to keep dialin', Oxmyx." 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5518).....

 Check This Out!

Well, it works for me. 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5473)....

 Check This Out!

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5453)....

 Check This Out!

Words of wisdom from the Klingon Kang, in his older years. 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5393)....

 Check This Out!

Yeah, the recent clutching of pearls and gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes by the internet conserva-trolls makes me chuckle.  "When did Trek get woke?  Waaaaaahhhhh!"

As this shows, 60 years ago, Trek was fighting Nazis, had women in positions of power, combatted racism and showed the first interracial kiss on television. 

But yeah, there's a gay Klingon and suddenly Trek is too woke to be watched. 

Delicate lil snowflake morons.  

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5389)......

 Check This Out!

I'm surprised she didn't include a fourth: Always have an ample supply of coffee with you. 

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5379)...

 Check This Out!

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Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5345)....

 Check This Out!

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My birthday song, my happy world (Part 260)...

 Badass Birthday

On this date in 1937, George Takei was born in Los Angeles. 

Yes, he's had a long and varied acting career, but really his badassedness is shown just by his iconic role as Lt. (later Captain) Hikaru Sulu on the Star Trek franchise.   And come on, how badass was it to be an Asian actor and have a role like he did?  Much like Nichelle Nichols as a black woman in a position of respect and power, here was an Asian man doing the same.  And 60 years ago, that was some pretty impressive shit. 

He's a badass to me on a personal level for being an out and unapologetically gay actor.  Granted, he didn't publicly come out until later in life, but once California overturned the gay marriage law in their state he and his husband Brad came out and worked tirelessly to get that changed. And they're since been outspoken advocates for gay rights. 

Plus, I had the honor of seeing him in person a few years ago, where he stood on stage (stood, at over 80 years old for over an hour) and talked about his life and his projects and works and stuff.   Especially poignant when he talked about his time in a concentration camp here in the US during World War II.  Dark stuff.   I imagine 70 years or so from now, there will be people of Latino descent giving similar speeches about being a concentration camp now.  But that's a topic for another time. 

George Takei, actor, gay icon and total badass. 

POLT