Midnight Musings

I was flipping through the channels looking at the synopses of various shows I was thinking about falling asleep on, when I saw something like this: "Kirk fights angry giants on a hostile planet while his crew argues bitterly with Spock." My son, whom I had just picked up from his night job and knows me annoyingly well, responded, "No! No way! We are NOT watching that!" Through my hysterical laughter, I cried, "But we have to! How can we not watch this? It's not only got giants, but angry giants. The planet is hostile. Even the crew is bitterly argumentative. It just screams late-night entertainment!" Apparently my hysteria wasn't entertaining enough for him and he insisted that we watch some iteration of CSI: Where Are You? (hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo) instead. I was doubly disappointed in him when I saw the Sci-Fi Channel's offering of a bloodthirsty monster created by a fusion of human genes and computer chips, burst out laughing and he said he wanted to watch that. What made this better viewing than hostile rocks and angry giants? You have to love the original Star Trek. If you're looking for a good gigglefest, it's got it all.

'night.