Maru Guy

[sporangia]

On Memorial Day Vala3, Owl (aka Momcat09) and I went to see Star Trek  again. It was the third time for me and I finally had a chance to focus on some of the other performances besides the main people.

 

 

Maru Guy

 

I was particularity taken with (minor lust here) the black guy sitting at the weapons station during Kirk’s third Kobayashi Maru test. If I have the actor right and I’m not sure, it was Jonathan Dixon. He is listed on IMDB as the Simulator Tactical Officer. I enjoyed his absolute glee as he was participating in a Maru meltdown. I hope he’s one of Kirk’s friends I’d like to see him again in the future movies.   Most likely he’s one of the guys that run the simulation. I can imagine him doing this simulation over and over with thousands of cadets and watching them lose and then watching the inevitable emotional fallout. He was definitely into the ‘win’ this time, I’m sure he knew the second the program veered off, and he didn’t look all that surprised. Wouldn’t it be cool if he was the guy who helped Kirk get access to the program code?  I wonder if the character was ever given a name. I might try to write a story about him. Hummmmmm.

 

 

Comments

Re: Reading

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I actually have another LJ for posting book reviews, but I've been ignoring it for the last few months--That will change.

Make an announcement when you start using it because I'd like to friend it. I like seeing what other people are reading - sometimes I get good ideas. ;)

My reading tastes are very eclectic too. I have no particular genre favorite or anything like that. I just like a good read, and have been picking up books lately purely based on what sounds good to me at the time when I read the synopsis or a review somewhere. Which accounts for why I see a book in my pile and forget why I picked it up in the first place later on. ;)

As for fan fiction, it goes in cycles with me. A few years ago, though, I was reading so much of it that I think I almost completely burned myself out, and now I only read the very occasional piece by someone I know and whose taste I trust, or a rec by, again, someone whose taste is very similar to mine.