CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT TODAY IS THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST STAR TREK EPISODE!!!!!!
Yikes! I watched Star Trek as a child, and granted, that was 45 years ago, but still, somehow, it seems shocking....
But I've always loved Star Trek, especially the original series in all its cheesy and earnest glory. My husband was more of a "Second Generation" guy (and, admittedly, the Borg is a great concept), but those characters never captured my heart the way James T. Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhuru, Sulu, and Chekov did.
Which is why I am so enraptured by this:
from Darla at Bakingdom.com, one of my new favorite blogs.
Can you believe she made the entire cast into cookies? You can see them all up close on her post, along with details about her recipes and techniques involved in recreating everyone in flour, sugar, and butter.
Her entire site is filled with similarly creative pastries and other goodies. Truly, her stuff is incredible. I like to use food to enhance certain educational ideas and subject, like our Presidential Palate series of cooking a meal to represent the US Presidents, but I can't hold a candle to her when it comes to cookie- and cake-based tributes.
However, her tasty Star Trek reminders does make me think about incorporating watching some Star Trek into our 20th century history this year once we get to the 1960's. The original series had a political agenda; Gene Roddenberry wanted it to support the anti-war, feminist, and pro-Civil Rights positions of the 60's counter culture. And as I reported in an earlier post, actress Nichelle Nichols has a story of a chance encounter with Martin Luther King Jr., who called himself "the biggest Trekkie on the planet," and claimed that Star Trek gave people a concrete vision of how life could be if we were committed to equality and peace (well, not that there wasn't plenty of fighting in Star Wars, but the goals were always to forward peace). The show was pretty radical for its time, especially with the racially-mixed crew and television's first scripted inter-racial kiss.
So maybe I can justify revisiting some of my favorite childhood memories for academic purposes!
Too Cute!
ReplyDeleteYum! Yay! You should try to make some of these! You really REALLY REALLY should, you know.
ReplyDeleteHey! what do you mean? "a second generation guy" I base my curmudgeonly ways on McCoy! And who can ever forget "he's dead Jim"
ReplyDeleteOK, I take it back. My husband is equally TOS. But he was MORE into TSG than I was when we met. But I grew to appreciate TSG from him, even though it never eclipsed the original series for me, and the others fell even further behind (no matter how much theoretically I liked the idea of a female commander of the Enterprise...for example).
ReplyDeleteWhat does TOS stand for? The Old Stuff? And so would TSG be The Soon Generation? By the way, you should really really REALLY REALLY make some of those cookies!
ReplyDeleteExcuse me! TOS stands for "The Original Series." TNG is "The Next Generation"--the name of the series with Jean Luke Picard. TSG is...I don't know, something you came up with yourself.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you should really REALLY REALLY REALLY make some of those cookies!
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I could do it on my own. You'll have to see if you can talk someone into helping me....
ReplyDeleteI'll defenately tell Anna to help you make some!
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