Mobyed

Last night during the Oscars we went down to the couch and spent ten minutes bouncing between Amazon and Netflix trying to find something to hold our interest for an hour or so.

Bizarrely we settled on a 1998 television production of Moby Dick starring Patrick Stewart*.

We've been researching Hawaii, which led us to Captain Cook, which led us to The Bounty, which led us to Cook's journals and the book The Bounty was based on.

Choosing the '98 version of Moby Dick was a bit or reminiscing, really. We recall watching this back then with our roommate.

We're still close friends with Paul and our families know one another. Just the other day we were telling our oldest about how stupid young men can be and using Paul and ourselves as an example. For three years he and I were in post collegiate bachelor hell together.

God we were morons.

Anyway, Moby Dick feels like the 90s but holds up OK.

Lately we like the notion of men at sea. The appeal comes with the suburban dad starter kit with the comfy sneakers and the Dad-taxi discount gas card.

*One day you will read a novel or ours that has a ship named Hell's Heart.

Star Trek: Galaxy

Captain Picard is back!

CBS is producing a new series involving legendary Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Over at Red Letter Media a very interesting discussion on the project, and Mike Stoklasa's proposal for the series:

We watched half an episode of Discovery and came away unimpressed. The last movie we saw was First Contact. 

[You're just cynical and jaded-Ed]

True enough.

Star Trek is a huge franchise of course and it has a lot of influence. There are thousands of people in NASA, the navy, JPL, and university physics departments becuase of Kirk and Picard. In a hundred years people who will never hear of Tom Cruise will know Spock. For 25 years if you liked sci-fi Star Trek was all there was.

But we think Star Trek's time has passed.