Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Hey, all! Some fun ST:TMP related news!

As you may know, I'm a fan of Movie Archaeology, digging into early drafts of movies. ST:TMP got me started in that, and was the subject of my first comparison page of all the drafts and movies, which you can see here: http://dolari.net/startrek/tmp/index.html

What CAN'T you see? The actual scripts (unless you ask real nice). Mainly because I can't afford the bandwidth for some of these scripts to be downloaded. However, the folks over at Forgotten Trek have made some of the scripts I have available for reading!

Read Phillip Kaufman's "Star Trek: Treatment for the Motion Picture " (a last ditch attempt to keep Star Trek: Planet of the Titans afloat) here: https://forgottentrek.com/phase-2/planet-of-the-titans-the-film-that-wasnt/

Read both Harold Livingston's Rough Draft and Gene Roddenberry's Second Draft of "In Thy Image" here: https://forgottentrek.com/phase-2/in-thy-image (The Rough Draft was written for the proposed TV show, and the Second Draft was written as the production was moving towards Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

I do have other drafts of the movie, which aren't hosted online right now, but if you'd like to read them, let me know.

So I bought some frozen samosas and it came with mint and tamarind chutney. Love the stuff. But I was wondering...the very first Indian restaurant I went to in State College, PA, had TOMATO chutney. It was REALLY REALLY good. I've never seen it anywhere but that one restaurant.

I need to learn to make that cause it was really good.

Protip: When baking food, remember to put the food IN the oven.

i can cook gud

Where I am NOW....

Where I am now....

The only thing dumber looking than a Cybertruck is a Cybertruck with a camper shell.

One of my favorite pieces of movie soundtrack music reduced to one piano that sounds every bit as good as the orchestral version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMM1uS_kDSE

David Lynch was one of the few people who could accurately film a nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13ZuGgcqd0

A question for the writers and creators out there.

How do you write for your characters? Do you just know what they'd say? Or do the characters tell YOU what they'd say (and even make plot suggestions/changes?)

I do the latter, and during a convention where I explained the process of "telling a character who they are until they start telling ME who they are" another creator leaned in and whispered "your brain frightens me."

This is how bad it's getting here in the states: https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/refugee-advocates-want-canada-to-make-exemption-for-u-s-transgender-asylum-claims/article_b2cfc342-3a5a-57f7-b97b-7b908f55b7a4.html

A quote on my mind these days.

"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair.

"Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

So it seems that the newest Linux Mint uses the Ubuntu Noble software base and the one I was using before the reinstall used the Ubuntu Jammy base. After a reinstall using the Jammy software set my PCs are very happy again.

2025 is really kicking my butt.

I have an emergency dentist visit tomorrow as my tooth is falling apart. It's just a "Let's see what's happening" exam with one X-Ray. $117.

Just a look. Nothing more for now.