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One verdict on Star Fleet Academy ... ...

Posted by Steve Byrne @stevebyrnelive on X: " Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy saved my father's life. I was visiting him the hospital. He's been unresponsive for days. I turned on the tv in his room & watched this new show. Within minutes, my father woke up. Then he got up and changed the channel. " ( Steve Byrne on X: "Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy saved my father's life. I was visiting him the hospital. He's been unresponsive for days. I turned on the tv in his room & watched this new show. Within minutes, my father woke up. Then he got up and changed the channel." / X )
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Sir Arthur Harris on actions having consequences

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  And Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Harris - known to popular history as "Bomber Harris" - was as good as his word.
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Admiral Thrawn's speech to the Citizens of Coruscant

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In 2024, while the world known as Sol III had quite a lot of elections going on, we indulged in a speculation of what Grand Admiral Thrawn's election pitch to run the galaxy far, far away might have been like had the power to do so been determined by voting rather than war. You can still find it at: Vote Thrawn - the Chiss Alternative ! The "Star Wars Archive" group put together, with a bit of AI help, a similar speculation about what the Grand Admiral might say to the citizens of Coruscant when that world came under his control ...
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Music to start the weekend: "The Final Countdown"

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Music performed by Europe:  Video from the First battle of Geonosis (which takes place during the film "Attack of the Clones")
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Admiral Thrawn explains what leadership is.

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Poem of the week

"An algorithm’s watching me, I am not certain why, It sends advertisements for things I do not want to buy, It makes me feel uneasy, that upon me it has preyed, And if I could locate it, I would whack it with a spade." Pam Ayres MBE (Hat tip to Sally Frise who reposted it on X, formerly twitter, today.)
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Allan Massie RIP

Allan Massie, the author, columnist and The Scotsman’s chief literary critic who wrote for the paper for 50 years, has died aged 87. Mr Massie had been suffering from cancer and passed away on Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Claudia, surrounded by his family. It is estimated Mr Massie reviewed some 3,500 books for The Scotsman since starting at the paper in 1975, and he also contributed to the sports pages, where his columns on rugby and cricket ran for over three decades. Mr Massie wrote more than 25 novels, starting with Change and Decay in All Around I See in 1978. The Last Peacock (1980) won a literary award and was followed by The Death of Men, a thriller based on the 1978 kidnapping and murder by terrorists of Italian statesman Aldo Moro. His mid-European trilogy of A Question of Loyalties (1989), The Sins of the Father (1991) and Shadows of Empire (1997), was considered by the author to be among his best work. Widely published in France as well as the UK, he was honoured wi...
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