This last week I haven’t been able to get much done, if it wasn’t
one thing, it was another, but I’ve spent most of the week having to relax, or
stay off my feet. And I guess I could have been writing, but I couldn’t
concentrate (oh the joys of ADD).
So what did I do? Well, I thought about watching a movie,
but then my eyes fell on my Star Trek collection, reminding me that we recently
lost Leonard Nimoy, so as a tribute to him, I decided to watch my DVD’s, and
boy do I have them.
In the last couple of years of my husband’s life, he, for
either my birthday or Christmas, gave me boxed sets of the first through third
seasons of the original series, plus boxed sets of the original series movies
and the TNG movies, not everything in that universe, but enough.
I have now worked my way through the entire first season and
am into the second season, but I also took some time to watch the commentary
and extra features available in the set. Including the piece about Nimoy
discussing all the trouble they’d had fashioning his ears, and the casting
changes made between the first pilot (The Menagerie) and the pilot featuring Captain
Kirk.
All interesting stuff, and certainly stuff I already knew
since I’ve owned the DVD’s for some years now, but it’s nice to be able to look
back, and see it all again, and to remember what we’ve lost, but it’s also
nice, just to watch and remember how much my husband enjoyed giving me these
sets. He loved me a lot.
Sometimes it’s the little things, which make life easier to
bear. Don’t you think?
