The Women of Star Trek

Sexy Women Of Star Trek

Star Trek, a science fiction cult phenomenon TV show created by Gene Roddenberry first aired in 1966 which spawned many blockbuster movies and spin-off TV series since. From Star Trek, to The Next Generation, to Deep Space 9, to Voyager, to finally back to Enterprise, a sort of prequel to where it all began.

Along with the Earthlings of the future battling aliens and solving the problems of the Universe, there was always one constant on Star Trek. Thats right. Women. Beautiful women. This is a tribute to the beautiful women with lead roles in all the series.

Nurse Chapel

Nurse Chapel. Original series. Gene Roddenberry's wife, Nurse Chapel had the hots for Spock, the half human, half vulcan Commander. She had her chance a few times with Spock, but never quite brought the romance to fruition. She also had a recurring role on TNG as a betazoid queen and was also the voice of the computer in all following series.

Lt. Uhura

Lt. Uhura, Communications officer. Original series. Uhura made Television history with Captain Kirk with the first interracial kiss as both were being controlled by aliens with telpathic powers. No one messed with Uhura, she would lull you off guard with her singing and then cut you up with her knives.

Yeoman Rand

Yeoman Rand. Original series. Captain Kirk's sexy blonde eye candy. Yeoman Rand was put into several dire situations. Her most famous episode was when the crew contracted a deadly aging disease and she had to cope with Kirk aging rapidly and finding out that the disease had infected her as well.

Dr. Beverly Crusher

Moving to the spinoff series, The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, the ships chief medical officer, has a history with Captaqin Picard and several episodes elude to their steamy past. Her son Wesley is apparently the most gifted man in the universe.

Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi, half Betazoid, half Human ship counselor. The Next Generation. She used her telepathic powers to aid Captain Picard in alien negotiations and to sense fear and danger. Was romantically linked to Worf, the Klingon warrior, and to Commander Will Riker.

Tasha Yar

Tasha Yar. The Next Generation. The tough, blonde, rebel with a past security chief. She was killed off by an alien resembling an oil slick. She later appeared as a cloned Romulan and also in an alter universe episode. And she had sexual relations with Commander Data, the human android.

Major Kira Nerys

Major Kira Nerys. Deep Space 9. Former member of the Bajoran underground and now Captain Cisco's right hand woman. Romantically linked to Odo, the shape shifting head of security on the space station.

Jadzia Dax

Jadzia Dax. Deep Space 9. Jadzia was a Trill, a species that had a symbiotic relationship with a worm like being. Dax was well over 300 years old, and was transplanted in many hosts, both male and female. She was romantically linked to the stations doctor, Julian.

Ezri Dax

Ezri Dax. Deep Space 9. After Jadzia Dax was murdered, the Trill host, or symbiot survived and needed to be transplanted into a Trill host or also face death. Ezri, the young ambitious officer, never wanted to be joined with the Trill, but was the only host. She continued the rest of the series as a very confused, yet sexy Star Fleet officer.

Captain Janeway

Captain Janeway. Voyager. Janeway, a seasoned captain is marooned in the Delta quadrant 75 years away from home. Her ship and crew must face terrible challenges alone. Janeway was romantically linked to Chakota, Commander and former leader of a rogue faction called the Marquee.

B'Lanna Torres

B'Lanna Torres. Voyager. The half Klingon, half Human chief engineer of Voyager. Also a rebel Marquee fighter, and was romantically linked to both Chakota and ended up marrying Tom Paris, the crack pilot of Voyager.

Kes Voyager

Kes. Voyager. Kes was a two year old Okampan alien from the Delta Quadrant. Her life span was 9 years and was romantically linked to the Talaxian Neelix, the holographic doctor, and to Tom Paris. She left the show in grand style saving the crew from the Borg and propelling them 20 years closer to home.

Seven Of Nine

Seven Of Nine. Voyager. Seven was assimilated by the Borg as a young girl and was finally freed by the crew of Voyager 20 years later. Even though she carries some remnant Borg hardware on her face and body, Seven emulated sexuality. She was romantically linked to Tom Paris and the holographic doctor.

Hoshi Sato

Hoshi Sato. Enterprise. Hoshi was a skilled linguist and accepted Captain Archers request to become communications officer for the first Warp 5 space ship. Her character never had a chance to develop any personal relationships but the best guess would be Malcolm, Tactical officer.

T'Pol Of Vulcan

T'Pol of Vulcan. Enterprise. T'Pol, the 66 year old Vulcan science officer was forced by the Vulcan high command to help the humans in their quest for space exploration. T'Pol made Star Trek history by having the first nude love scene with Trip, chief engineer.


There you have it. The sexiest women of Star Trek. All 15 of them.

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Jesus Christ Superstar - 1970

Jesus Christ Superstar A 1970 Rock Opera

Jesus Christ Superstar, A 1970 Rock Opera

Jesus Christ Superstar, 1970, a rock opera written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics written by Tim Rice. This double album told the story of the events of Christ leading up to the crucifixion. This record, at the time, was very controversial. The Catholic church condemned the album citing blasphemy with "Hippies" singing songs about Jesus. As always, the young teens who heard this flocked to the record stores to buy this "Banned" album.
Ironically, Jesus Christ Superstar kept very close to the New Testament version and helped the young people of the day learn about the crucifixion and Christ's teachings. Apparently, rock and roll is not always the devils music.

The front cover simply states JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR with golden angels linked in a circle bowing towards each other.

Yes, this is a double album but the inside jacket is simply a dark brown with absolutely no writing, art work, or pictures. Not even a list of songs or acts. It's the only album I can recall that has nothing on the inside jacket.

Second verse, same as the first. The right side of the jacket is the same, all brown with no writing except at the top right that has MCA2-10000 which is certainly an album code.

The backcover has the cast of Superstar :
Jesus Christ..........Ian Gillan
Judas Iscariot........Murray Head
Mary Maddalene........Yvonne Elliman
Pontius Pilate........Barry Dennen
King Herod............Mike D'Abo
Caiaphas..............Victor Brox
Simon Zealotes........Johnny Gustafson
Peter.................Paul Davis
Annas.................Brian Keith
High Priest...........Paul Raven

Performing in Superstar are members of Deep Purple, Joe Cockers Grease Band, Lord Sutch, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, The Big Three, Juicy Lucy, Quartermass, Merseybeats, Gracious, Plastic Penny, Spooky Tooth, Manfred Mann, and Nucleaus. And the 85 piece orchestra and the strings of the city of London.



The album had an insert with the complete score, lyrics, acts, scenes, and cast, and crew. It provides an easy way to follow along with the opera. Of course, the most popular song from the album was Superstar and got plenty of airtime on the radio. However, there were two versions of the song, a short and long play version. Here is the long play version lyrics.

Judas:
Every time I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned
Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?

If you'd come today you would have reached a whole nation
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication
Don't you get me wrong (repeat)
I only want to know (repeat)

Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Who are you? What have you sacrificed?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Do you think you're what they say you are?

Tell me what you think about your friends at the top
Who'd you think besides yourself's the pick of the crop?
Buddah was he where it's at? Is he where you are?
Could Muhammmed move a mountain or was that just PR?
Did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake or
Did you know your messy death Would be a record-breaker?

Don't you get me wrong (repeat)
I only want to know (repeat)

Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Who are you? What have you sacrificed?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Do you think you're what they say you are?
(repeat and fade out)

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Santa Claus Conspiracy

Santa Claus Conspiracy

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house...

The Grassy Knoll Institute Santa Claus Conspiracy Theory has begun.

As a child, I often wondered how Santa Claus was able to tell if I was being naughty or nice, let alone millions of boys and girls.

Or how Santa had reindeer that could fly.

Or how Santa had enough time to visit every house in the world in one night.

Or how Santa fit down the chimney.

Or how Santa could fit all the toys in his one sled.

Well, the Grassy Knoll Institute finally reveals the Santa Mystery.

At the North Pole, Santa's home base and major toy manufacturing facility, are super computers with a huge database of every boy and girl in the world. His employees, also known as elves, work diligently updating their records on each child. Many phone calls to parents are necessary. Santa Claus then analyzes the data and then decides who is naughty and who is nice.

How do reindeer fly? Actually, it is not the reindeer that do the flying, but the sleigh that they pull. The sleigh is designed in such a manner that creates a wind tunnel vortex that sweeps up objects and propels them through the air. The sleighs rudders help control the direction and maneuverability and the reindeer simply guide the sleigh and keep it steady and on course.

The next problem was how does Santa have the time to visit all the boys and girls of the world all in one night? Some say the time lines of each region but there is a much simpler explanation. Santa Claus has the ability to bend time in the same manner as light bends when it comes in contact with water. When Santa begins his once a year journey on Christmas Eve, he enters the Santa space time continuum loop enabling him to virtually slow down time to a halt so an hour to him feels like a second to us. This way, he can carry out his travels and still have plenty of time.

On to the chimney, and what if some houses don't have chimneys? Santa is a contortionist. He is able to bend his body into many difficult and very limited spaces, such as a chimney. When a chimney isn't available, a crawl space or window does just fine.

The sled is only so big. So how does he fit all the toys in there? Since the North Pole is a toy manufacturing plant, they also have a very diverse distribution center. These centers are positioned all over the world and each package is bar coded and shipped to a specific warehouse. As Santa moves across the world, his employees, or elves, restock his sled as needed. That's why you see all those trucks delivering toys to the malls and stores in your area.

So there you have it. The Santa Conspiracy as told by the Grassy Knoll Institute.

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Tongue Logo Tattoo

The latest craze! Having your tongue tattooed with a corporate logo. Millions of women are flocking to tattoo parlors to have their tongues tattooed with corporate sponsors. Not surprisingly, the Grassy Knoll Institute has a commanding lead in tattoo sponsorship.

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The Mad Ice Scrapper

At dinner last night, I was reminded of an event that happened back in the 1970’s. I believe it was the winter of 1976, or maybe 1977. It was a Christmas holiday type event where each neighbor tried to outdo the next in Christmas decorations presentations. Being in the midst of the energy crisis, a time when just a few years earlier President Richard Nixon preached to all Americans to conserve oil, gas, and electricity. The Christmas light decorators had to find more energy efficient means to showcase their homes.

They came up with a very ingenious concept of brown and white paper lunch bags and nickel candles. The home owner would open each paper bag, add about an inch of sand to add weight so they would not blow away and line them starting at the street curb and then wind their way on both sides up their driveway. They would then add the nickel candles and light them. The paper bag would illuminate to a very bright decoration and the bag height would block the wind keeping the candle lit.

It would take hours to set up the bags and then every night relight or replace the candles and re-align whatever bags needed to be placed back into position.

That’s where Brad and I came in. At the height of the Christmas season, when every household was illuminated with these energy efficient decorations, we would take to the streets with our car. I was in my 1968 yellow Camaro, and we would find a street aglow with these light bags. I would then get really close to the curb and Brad would open the car door, and using the ice scrapper would mow down as many of the bags as he could.

Its hard to describe the sound the bags made when they came in contact with the ice scrapper, something like Thrack, thrack, thrack. We were laughing like idiots watching the bags almost explode as they were hit and then catch on fire immediately afterward. We would go street to street with the mad ice scrapper.

This went on for some time until we began to get chased from the neighbors who began to recognize the yellow Camaro. The mad ice scrapper retired after an all to brief reign of terror.

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I Won A Major Award

I Won A Major Award

I think its Italian, it says....Fra......Gil......E......

I thought I'd share with you one of the Christmas gifts my wife Patty bought me. Its a replica leg lamp from the classic movie, A Christmas Story. The father wins a major award and it gets delivered in a giant crate. It turns out to be the Infamous Leg lamp and he displays it prominently in the front picture window for all his neighbors to see.

I recommend watching the movie.

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Ginos Pizza - Chicago

Gino's Pizza - Chicago

While at the Chicago Halloween show, we had to have Chicago pizza. We asked many locals where the best pizza was. An almost unanimous reply was Gino’s just off Mannheim road. To the taxi.
The restaurant was packed, about 25 people waiting to be seated, which was a good sign. An empty Italian restaurant does not bode well. After about 20 minutes, we were seated and we placed our order. A large pizza was ordered with half with bacon and half with pepperoni and green peppers. My half was the bacon half.

Twenty minutes later, the pizza arrived at our table. As you can see, it looked delicious. The slices were cut all the way through, the crust was crunchy, the cheese perfect, the sauce hot and tangy, and the bacon cooked under the cheese was well cooked.

And the taste, very good. The service, very good. The cost, not bad for Chicago, 20 bucks for the pizza and two cokes. Putting it all together, the Grassy Knoll Institute awards 4 out of 5 shots and recommends Gino’s pizza for dinner.

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Beach Boys - Endless Summer 1974

Beach Boys Endless Summer album Cover

The 1960's music world was dominated by the British invasion of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones as they churned out number one hit after number one hit. But the tide slowly turned starting on the West coast and steadily spreading throughout the nation. The Beach Boys and their "Surfer Sound" gathered a following of teeny boppers not just from California, but the entire nation. In 1974, Endless Summer, a double album greatest hits on Capital records was released. It was a must have rock and roll album with almost all the best Beach Boys tunes.

The left inside jacket is a cartoonish depiction of the California beach with a row boat, life preserver, a cartoon picture of one of the band members, and the listing of the album track titles.Side One:
Surfin Safari
Surfer Girl
Catch A Wave
The Warmth Of The Sun
Surfin U.S.A.

Side Two:
Be true To Your School
Little Deuce Coupe
In My Room
Shut Down
Fun, Fun, Fun

Side Three:
I Get Around
The Girls On The Beach
Wendy
Let Him Run Wild
Don't Worry Baby

Side Four:
California Girls
Girl Don't Tell Me
Help Me Rhonda
You're So Good To Me
All Summer Long

The right side of the inside cover is a continuation of the cartoonish California beach scene with a tanned muscle bound weightlifter and a hot dog stand.

The back cover has two more cartoon pictures of the band members, a bi-plane, penguin, and a Sgt. Rock comic book plus another listing of the album tracks.

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