Comments on: Sci-Fi for the Non-Nerdy http://halfkindled.com/sci-fi-for-the-non-nerdy/ , but striving to become on fire. Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: kscott http://halfkindled.com/sci-fi-for-the-non-nerdy/#comment-304 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:15:19 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=121#comment-304 A kindred soul! That is one of my favorite moments at the end of Amok Time! My husband had quite the collection of Star Trek books, models, phasers, etc. from his childhood. My son just discovered his phaser and now I hear myself shouting things like “you had better be pretending that phaser is on stun if you are pointing it at your sister.” I am so sorry to hear that your house burned down ! That must have been so hard. Was it recent?

]]> By: Leslie http://halfkindled.com/sci-fi-for-the-non-nerdy/#comment-303 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:47:37 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=121#comment-303 We are serious Star Trek fans here. Like we have a lot of the books, including such things as The Metaphysics of Star Trek which is obviously QUITE intellectual! We used to have all kinds of things like phasers and models and figurines but then our house burned down. Anyway, I’ve seen all the TOS and TNG eps and none of the others. I remember liking Inner Light very much. My favorite TOS episode is probably Amok Time, all for the sake of Spock’s smile at the end.

]]> By: kscott http://halfkindled.com/sci-fi-for-the-non-nerdy/#comment-302 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:20:02 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=121#comment-302 It’s too based we couldn’t all get together again and play for old times sake. Maybe at homecoming,haha? Glad you like the list it was fun to put together :) Its so funny that you mention that Tolkien essay, I actually quoted from it in a rough draft! Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a way to make it flow nicely. It was fun to see that many of my conclusions on the value of sci-fi / fantasy were shared by him.

]]> By: Matthew Bowman http://halfkindled.com/sci-fi-for-the-non-nerdy/#comment-301 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:05:00 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=121#comment-301 Oh, yeah, I remember that campaign. Too bad we never finished it! And too bad none of us have the time or are in the same location for another game.

Good choices on the Star Trek episodes. There are several good TOS episodes that would work for this, but “City on the Edge of Forever” is definitely a good introduction because of how the science fiction is a framing device rather than the whole plot. “Family” almost has no science fiction in it, which disappointed me as a kid but I can really appreciate its themes as an adult. “Counterpoint” is an excellent choice, and I say that knowing I wouldn’t have thought of it.

I’m not sure which single episode I’d pick for Enterprise; my favorite remains the three-part with Vulcan culture in the final season, but that is hardly a good intro point.

And you can tell your mother from me that SF&F is DEFINITELY for intellectuals! Gosh, I don’t know how that claim still lives today. You should tell her to read “On Fairy Stories” by Tolkien and get back to me on how either it doesn’t apply, or how Tolkien wasn’t an intellectual. :)

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