Writer's Block: Back to School

[mothwing]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, if only for the chance to lust after Ms Hardbroom up close. Other than that, Hogwarts, of course, and maybe the Unseen University. I don't think I'm enough of a girlscout or fit enough to ever get into Starfleet.

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[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Well, the glasses are indeed fixed by possibilities of treating practically everything, and I guess the lack of guts are explained by the training that cadets undergo before and after joining up - as well as the fact that I doubt that food from the replicator is food exactly as we know it, so that should take care of spare calories which are synthesised away.

But yes, on the whole, today's undesirable features are clearly not a part of the Star Trek universe.

[(Anonymous)]

I think they had a little joke about glasses in Wrath of Khan. Apparently Kirk has age-related hyperopia but is allergic to the medication preventing it so he needs a pair of reading glasses in one scene to read a targeting computer's screen. I'm not sure about the movie, could've been The Search for Spock as well.

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

The above was me.

Re: Star Trek Geekery

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

They sell those glasses in IV to obtain contemporary money, so I can imagine them being featured in III.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Memory Alpha (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Glasses) has this to say on the matter:
Captain James T. Kirk was allergic to Retinax V, the conventional ways of correcting vision, so Dr. Leonard McCoy provided him with a pair of antiquated glasses. However, the glasses broke following the conflict with Khan Noonien Singh and his followers. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) Kirk would end up selling the glasses at an antique shop on 20th century Earth in exchange for currency needed to accomplish their mission to save Earth in the future. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)