Thought for the Day 9/12/2025
I was an avid Star Trek fan during college. I remember many of the episodes but a recent event brought one scene back. Dr. McCoy, the Starship Enterprise's chief medical officer, was having difficulty transporting from the surface of a planet back to the Enterprise. For those unfamiliar with futuristic science fiction television show Star Trek, the transporter was a device that could move people electronically from place to place. Dr. McCoy's molecules were about to be scattered over space as the transporter began to malfunction. Mr. Spock, the Enterprise's science officer and bastion of logic, worked frantically at the transporter controls. "Cross circuiting from A to B," Spock explained to the technician standing nearby. Slowly McCoy materialized and took solid form. "Thank God," McCoy uttered as he shakily but safely stepped off the transporter platform. "I don't know why you are giving credit to some deity, it was me cross circuiting from...