Monday, July 12, 2010

Trekkie Sandwiches

Dinner tonight, open-faced sandwiches with meat, cheese and tomatoes, dubbed Trekkie Sandwiches by one of the kiddos, is accompanying our evening's entertainment, Season 2, Episode 3 of Star Trek: the Next Generation.

The kids are just as wrapped up in the escapades of Jean-Luc Picard, Data, Worf, Reiker, and all the others as we were back in the day. Some of the technologies that seemed so amazing appear outdated to us now, like the hand-held computers that do less than an iphone but weigh 20 times more.

We originally watched Star Trek: TNG back in college. A whole group of friends would gather around the console TV, the kind with tin foil on the rabbit ear. One person was assigned to adjust the antennae every time the picture fuzzed out. It's not so different from now. When the digital revolution hit our house, the constant jostling with the digital converter box receiver began.

It seems it's not only on Star Trek that the technology isn't keeping up with the times.

2 comments:

Lisa Harris said...

I had to smile because we've turned out kids into trekkies too. We finished up TNG and now they are excited for us to pick up Voyager when we're back this fall.

Papa John said...

Since the conversion to digital my greatest fear has become "Death by Periodic Pixillation". I know the claim was better reception, but in our experience, we get fewer stations to watch, random interruptions, and far less reliable reception, especially in inclement weather. It seem the new progress is technical regression. Life really was easier in the 50's.