{"id":18719,"date":"2010-05-22T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-rikers-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:00:28","slug":"the-rikers-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-rikers-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"The Rikers | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" premiered my first year of grad school, and the last episode aired my last year. It bookended my career as a student getting a PhD in astronomy, and so it has personal meaning for me. Also, I simply loved the show. And I mean love like grown-up love; I accepted its faults as well as the times it exceeded the sum of its parts. <\/p>

On reddit<\/a>, I found a link to this video<\/a>, an interview with Marina Sirtis (Troi) and Jonathan Frakes (Riker), and if you’re a TNG fan, it’s a must-see. It’s simply wonderful.<\/p>

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It starts off a little goofy and fun, and ends really quite warmly. They seem like genuinely nice people — and if you read Wil Wheaton’s Memories of the Future<\/a> you’ll find out they really were. That’s nice to know.<\/p>

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