The Trek Within: Cubes, College And Capt. Kirk
I love “Star Trek.” I like Star Wars, “Battlestar Galactica” and all the Stargate shows. But I love “Star Trek.” Of course, this wasnt always the case. My first exposure to Star Trek took place while the show was airing on NBC in the late 1960s, and my twin brother, Wayne, and I were growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania. One night, our family happened to turn on “By Any Other Name,” and that episode had a profound impact on Wayne and me: We were afraid to fall asleep that night for fear wed be turned into cubes and crushed. (And yes, we know the crew of the Enterprise was really turned into dodecahedrons with 12 sides, but that wouldnt have comforted us at the time.) When our mother found us still wide awake the next morning, she declared thered be no more of that show for …
