July 13, 2003
Beyond the rim of starlight,
My love is wand’ring in
starflight. I know he’ll
find, in star clustered reaches,
love, strange love a starwoman teaches.
I know his journey ends
never; His star trek
will go on forever. But
tell him while he wanders his starry
sea, Remember, remember me.
Star Trek (Theme Song Theme To Star Trek) Words by Gene Roddenberry, Music by Alexander Courage, @1966(Renewed 1994), 1970 by Bruin Music Company
This goes into the Believe It or Not category. Yes, I was just as shocked as you were to find out that there are lyrics to the Star Trek theme. It appears that series creator, Gene Roddenberry, was also a lyricist, not a great one, but a lyricist nonetheless.
This is one bit of Star Trek trivia that I wonder if my ex-boyfriend, Michael, knew about. Michael, was a Trekkie but hated being referred to as such. His entire apartment was dedicated to all things Star Trek. He owned the uniforms, had ship replica’s, posters, autographed trading cards. He could even tell you stats on the various classes of ships. He took me to my first star Trek Convention at the Marriott in Towson. I’m more of a Star Wars fan than Star Trek fan. Therefore, I found his ability to quote Star Wars and Yoda endearing. After a while it became annoying. But still I found his ability and knowledge of different sci-fi genres mesmerizing
Come to think of it the majority of men I’ve been involved with or have had crushes on have been geeks. I don’t believe I’ve ever dated any one who was an alpha male. David is the only one who comes closest to being normal. David has never seen Star Wars, hates sci-fi, does not own a computer, and does not collect comic books. In fact we don’t have very much extracurricular interests in common, yet, somehow we work.
Nothing terribly exciting happened today except that I received a card from the woman who bought my poster at the auction for the Sowebo posters. She wrote that the poster is now hanging in the teachers dining room at the Learning Bank on Baltimore Street. I hope one day to visit my poster.
Don’t get me wrong I’m very excited to hear where it ended up at. In the back of my mind, worse case scenario I pictured it as never being bid on and sitting in a closet somewhere or in the trash never to be seen again by human eyes. It’s only acquaintances dust bunnies and rats. It’s nice to know that it is hanging somewhere and was not abandoned and all alone.
Today’s writing prompt says to write a story in which a horrifying chain of events happens to the main character, Happy Friday the 13th!!!
