Sing O Muse . . . .

I've had Star Trek on the brain for a while now. I don't think I'm quite a Trekkie yet since I've only recently started exploring that world. So far, what I've discovered is pretty interesting and intriguing enough that I wish to explore it further.

I like the concept about the crew of a starship exploring new worlds, discovering new life and civilizations. I like the dynamic they have set up with TOS Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. I like how Spock and McCoy don't argue with each other because they are jerks but because they have different ways of looking at the world. They value different things. I like that Kirk both balances them and plays off them in his own way since Kirk is a pragmatist.

I like the optimism of this future through I think in some parts it is a little too optimistic. No, I'm not saying an optimistic future is inherently unrealistic. I'm just saying that for every ten humans at least one of them is going be a jerk in some fashion. People aren't always nice or do the right thing. Doesn't mean you shouldn't hope for better or teach people better behavior. Just accept that some people of those people you are trying to reach are covered in clue Teflon.

There are questions. Like I'd like to know how their economy actually works. I don't have a problem with a barter economy per say – through the logistics of large scale barter economy sound mind-boggling complex – but cash as a medium of exchange for goods and services developed for a reason. Just because the people of our world and today aren't and haven't always used the idea well doesn't mean the idea itself is bad.

Another that makes me puzzle until my puzzler is sore is trying to figure why in the name of Charles Darwin did Vulcan's circulatory system develop the way it did. My question mark lies not with cooper being the metal for their oxygen exchange molecule – that's fine – but with the position of the heart. Heart and lungs hang out with each other because they need each other to do their jobs. If Spock's heart is where his liver should be, I'm curious about the pathways the pulmonary arteries and veins must take to get blood back and forth between the lungs and heart. Part of me can't help but think that the writers just said his heart was in a weird spot to make Vulcans more alien and didn't think the biology through.

And speaking of his liver – do Vulcans have livers? And if so, where it is since the heart is sitting where the liver would be in a human?

Side note: I really wish people making franchises would make a franchise bible and have someone (s) whose entire job is keeping track of the continuity. So the stuff each piece within the franchise shares don't contradict each other.