https://doismiu.blog/tags/startrek/Recent content in Startrek on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archiveHugoen-usSun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/<p>I have been spending a considerable amount of time aboard the original USS Enterprise lately. While it is easy to get charmed by Captain Kirk&rsquo;s chaotic charisma or Spock&rsquo;s cold logic, the truth needs to be said. The real genius of that ship does not wear gold or blue. He wears red and has a questionable Scottish accent.</p> <p>I am talking about Montgomery &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Scott.</p> <p><figure><img src="https://doismiu.blog/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/scotty.gif" alt="Scotty!" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-full="/posts/scotty-master-of-expectation/scotty.gif" width="480" height="360"> </figure></p> <p>Many look at the Chief Engineer and see comic relief or a man who enjoys complaining that &ldquo;the engines cannot take it&rdquo; a little too much. They are wrong. Scotty is the only adult in the room. He is the greatest practitioner of the lost art of <strong>Expectation Management</strong>.</p>https://doismiu.blog/posts/discovering-star-trek-in-2025/Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/discovering-star-trek-in-2025/<p>I&rsquo;ve always been a Star Wars fan. My first time in a movie theater was watching Episode III with my dad and my brother. That movie and the PS1 SW games shaped my childhood within the Star Wars universe. Years later, I watched the original trilogy and fell in love all over again. A thrilling story, marvelous special effects, and the thing that left the biggest mark on me: the struggle between good (Jedi) and evil (Empire).</p>