by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/16/2024 8:41 PM
I never watch these rebroadcasts
Tonight, I was compelled to turn on the tv and set the channel that I know broadcasts this time of night episodes of Star Trek
They broadcast in sequence each day one episode from each of the tv-series
This works only because I chose to watch tonight this episode broadcast, this post pre-empting another blog-post I've worked on from earlier today and that would have been next here, as another installment in a string of posts leading to another Grand Explanation I have developed
These are the sort of observations - occurrences - that I think my blog-posts should be about. This is perhaps - reasonable to assume because of the obvious planning - the reason originally for this campaign of mine, originating before my conscious awareness
Heroes and Icons tv-channel (handitv), Spokane antenna-broadcast channel 4.3
8:00 PM 02/16/2024
STAR TREK
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR
The Enterprise must deal with incorporeal cloud-like aliens who have already destroyed the inhabitants of a library planet and plan to eliminate the Enterprise crew if they cannot acquire a human host.
From 1/31/1969 ( ) To 2/16/2024 ( Today , Thursday ) is 20104 days
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 11/17/2020 ( ) is 20104 days
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: Who are you?
ZETAR: We are from Zetar.
SPOCK: That is one of the planets where all humanoid life was destroyed.
KIRK: You can't be from Zetar. All life was destroyed there long ago.
ZETAR: Yes, all corporeal life was destroyed.
KIRK: Then what are you?
ZETAR: The desires, the hopes, the mind and the will of the last hundred of Zetar. The force of our life could not be wiped out.
KIRK: All things die.
ZETAR: At the proper time. Our planet was dying. We were determined to live on. At the peak of our plans to go, a sudden final disaster struck us down. But the force of our lives survived. At last we have found someone through whom we can live it out.
KIRK: The body of the one you inhabit has its own life to lead.
ZETAR: She will accept ours.
KIRK: She will not. She is fighting for her own identity.
ZETAR: Her mind will accept our thoughts. Our lives will be fulfilled.
KIRK: Will she learn the way people on Memory Alpha learned?
ZETAR: We did not wish to kill.
KIRK: But you did kill!
ZETAR: No. Resisting us killed those people. We did not kill them.
KIRK: The price of your survival is too high.
ZETAR: We only want the girl.
KIRK: You can't have her. You're entitled to your own life, but not another's.
MIRA: Life was given to me. It is mine. I want to live it out. I will
MCCOY: The girl's life reading is becoming a match to the Zetarians. She's losing.
ZETAR: Do not fight us.
SPOCK: They will not accept their own deaths.
KIRK: They'll be forced to accept it.
ZETAR: You will all die.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: November 17, 2020
a/
I've documented many types of recurring sleeping-dreams in my mind over the decades
For *you*, sleeping-dreams mean LESS than nothing.
*Your* life is pathetic and pointless and meaningless.
Me, I have legitimate reasons to wonder.
b/
For one reason, the best reason, is BECAUSE of the knowledge I *seem* to possess in my conscious mind that cannot be explained.
Only rare instances of responses by people familiar to me left me with feelings that you people are complete idiots.
c/
Today, after another fitful, weary, unrestful night of sleep, I recall many sleeping-dreams but most has faded.
What remains now this evening is one instance of a recurring type of sleeping-dream in my mind
d/
The details are always vastly different to my recurring dreams while asleep, of all the different types that recur
Today, the familiar type is one that happens just as I awake and open my eyes
e/
Today, a person enters a room I'm in and says they didn't know anyone was in that room before entering
The details vary but what's consistent is that I become aware someone else just before waking
f/
Such occurrences mean also less than nothing for me, as well
But what makes it compelling is the knowledge that exists in my mind that cannot be explained.
*You*, especially, all of *you*, are too completely ignorant to grasp just how completely dumb and ignorant you are.
g/
What this all makes me think about is again my attempt to understand why anything I'm documenting about the Real World, baffling as it is, is happening in the first place.
h/
I'm not some pathetic loser ego-maniac who craves attention because I have no substance and because I am desperate to have monuments built to make me feel better because I know for certain that I am and always have been useless.
I don't need any of that.
i/
What I fear is that there will become The Day It All Makes Sense and then - for you monkeys - will be too late.
Earlier, as the tv-series episode begins:
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
Captain's log, stardate 5725.3. The Enterprise is en route to Memory Alpha. It is a planetoid set up by the Federation solely as a central library containing the total cultural history and scientific knowledge of all planetary Federation members. With us is specialist Lieutenant Mira Romaine. She is on board to supervise the transfer of newly designed equipment directly from the Enterprise to Memory Alpha.
[Engineering]
SCOTT: You're the sanest, the smartest, the nicest woman that has ever come aboard this ship.
MIRA: Anything else?
SCOTT: Anything else, I'll keep to myself for the moment.
KIRK: When a man of Scotty's years falls in love, the loneliness of his life is suddenly revealed to him. His whole heart once throbbed only to the ship's engines. He could talk only to the ship. Now he can see nothing but the woman.
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: As soon as we're within viewing range of Memory Alpha, you and Lieutenant Romaine will go to the emergency manual monitor. You'll prepare for direct transfer of equipment.
SCOTT: Aye, Captain.
MIRA: We're ready, sir.
KIRK: Lieutenant, may I offer my congratulations on what will be your first assignment for the Federation?
KIRK: Yes. Good luck, Lieutenant.
MIRA: Thank you.
SULU: Captain, I'm picking up a high intensity reading.
KIRK: Is that Memory Alpha?
SULU: No, sir.
(There's a bright thing in the middle of the viewscreen.) An engineer touches Scott's arm to attract his attention.)
SCOTT: Excuse me.
KIRK: Magnification eight. What is that?
SPOCK: Indications are a storm, Captain, although I've never seen one of such great intensity or strange confirmation.
KIRK: Readings?
SPOCK: All sensor readings are at maximum calibration.
SULU: Captain, it's approaching at warp factor two point six and accelerating.
KIRK: Check that. No natural phenomena can move faster than the speed of light.
SPOCK: It is definitely doing so, Captain. Therefore it cannot be a phenomenon of nature.
KIRK: Deflectors on. Condition yellow.
UHURA: Condition yellow, sir.
SULU: Shields activated, Captain.
(The bright thing 'invades' the ship with sparkles. Only Mira does not shield her eyes from it. Then the sparkles withdraw.)
KIRK: Mister Sulu, get us the devil out of here! Full scan on the disturbance that penetrated the Bridge. Lieutenant, all decks, damage report.
(Mira gently falls to the floor.)
SCOTT: Mira!
KIRK: Doctor McCoy to the Bridge. Emergency. Emergency.
SCOTT: Mira! Mira! (her eyes and mouth are open) What's that you're saying'?
From 3/13/1894 ( ) To 10/11/2010 ( ) is 42580 days
42580 = 21290 + 21290
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/16/2024 ( Today , Thursday ) is 21290 days
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian18940313-01.2.9&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 18, Number 145, 13 March 1894
PROFESSOR ORMOND'S NEW BOOK.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 02/25/10 3:33 PM
but other times I think he was organic and then that leads me to thinking about how I wonder what is the real difference which then leads me to think about how that devalues life itself, or at least, those of us who have been duplicated. So the clone of me the clone shows up and he gives me instructions that he types out on a non-internet and non-wireless equipped computer and from those instructions I know where to find the teleportation device that will transport me into the virtual world that belongs to me, which I have been thinking for a while, contains no mirrors and there is nothing in there where I can see my reflection. So I go to that transportation device and I read through the instructions for activating it and a new aspect of the process, which I now think of from "The Terminator" is that I have to take off all my clothes before I am transported and then I am transported to my virtual world. The reason for the clothes is simply that, for me, there are factors constructed into the virtual world that creates a minor sense of hardship and indeed when I transport I am in the same location where the device is stored but there are no clothes there, or any people for that matter, and I have to walk outside in the freezing rain to find shelter. I am transported to the same location I remember but many of the buildings and structures that I would see at that location are gone in the virtual world. The road is still there but there are power lines or gas stations or many other structures that are useless in that virtual world. There are automobiles but only in new car lots and they don't require gasoline.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5338044/
IMDb
The Leftovers
The Book of Nora
Episode aired Jun 4, 2017
S3 E8
HBO's synopsis for this episode is: "Nothing is answered. Everything is answered. And then it ends."
by me, Kerry Burgess: 21 June 2015
She went before I did but I was already there.
I thought about that extensively. I think I wrote here before about how I tried to find again what I thought I wrote in my journal about it but could not find anything.
I had been there for months or longer. One day, I was passing through New York and I had the urge to drive through New York City. I was thinking that my mind was laboring with the notion I would be leaving there on that day going back to the real world and so I had taken out of my luggage my dress white US Navy uniform I was wearing that day months and months ago I found myself there in my new world. I had parked somewhere in the massive urban city and was walking along when I saw her there on the sidewalk, thinking she was a mannequin. I thought extensively of how only certain new vessels remained and I operated one US Navy ship to cross the Atlantic. We parted at a doorway after stating I would return to Charleston and I walked through a doorway before I even thought to say goodbye turning to find myself alone again.
The Leftovers (2014) s03e08
"The Book of Nora"
Nora Durst: And that's when I understood. Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us. So, I went and did what I came there to do. I went to find my kids. Planes don't really fly over there. They have enough resources, just not enough pilots. So, I found a boat that would take me. No boats go directly from Australia to New York, so it took me a long time to get there.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me - H.V.O.M at 7:55 AM Monday, October 11, 2010
I was thinking extensively about that again last night.
The existence is okay for a while but then it becomes tormenting enough to look for a way back to the real world. There is always something important missing that eventually becomes unbearable.
"The Book of Nora" - The Leftovers
Nora Durst: The physicists who sent me through told me the first person to use the machine was the guy who invented it. His name was Dr. Van Eeghen.
"The Book of Nora" - The Leftovers
Nora Durst: I'm pretty sure they were making fun of me, but they said when I went over that I should look him up, so I did. That took a long time, too. But I found him and I asked him to make another
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 15, 2017 11:11 pm
The Leftovers - The Book of Nora - television series episode Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Jun 04, 2017 on HBO (Comcast On Demand 15 July 2017)
Answers are elusive in the series finale.
Nora Durst: I knew there was a chance it would kill me, but I made my peace with that. And I said goodbye to my brother and I climbed right in.
Kevin Garvey: And then you changed your mind.
Nora Durst: No. I didn't change my mind. I went through. I was in the parking lot, naked curled up like a baby. It was the same parking lot I'd just been in, except there were no trucks no people, no nothing. It was cold, so I started to walk. I walked by empty houses abandoned buildings. And I found a store, so I went in and there were clothes there-- clothes hanging on racks-- so I got dressed and I got back to walking. I walked long enough to convince myself that I was the only thing alive in that place. And then night came, and I saw lights, so I went to them. It was a house, and there was a man and a women there. They were kind and they told me the man told me that seven years earlier, he was in a supermarket and every single person disappeared except for him. And the women told me that she lost her husband, her three daughters, and all eight of her grandchildren. And that's when I understood. Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us.
Nora Durst: They were happy. And I understood that here in this place, they were the lucky ones. In a world full of orphans, they still had each other. And I was a ghost. I was a ghost who had no place there. And that, Kevin, is when I changed my mind. The physicists who sent me through told me the first person to use the machine was the guy who invented it. His name was Dr. Van Eeghen. I'm pretty sure they were making fun of me, but they said when I went over that I should look him up, so I did. That took a long time, too. But I found him and I asked him to make another machine because he already knew how. And he asked me if I had come all that way, why in God's name did I wanna go back? And I told him it's because I didn't belong there. So, he built it. And I came back through. I came back here. Did I think about you? Did I wanna call you? Did I wanna be with you, Kevin? Of course I did. But so much time had passed. It was too late. And I knew that if I told you what happened that you would never believe me.
Kevin Garvey: I believe you.
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
[Sickbay]
MCCOY: Are the readings corresponding, Nurse?
CHAPEL: Everything appears normal, Doctor.
MCCOY: Thank you.
(Scott enters)
MIRA: What's that you're doing, Nurse?
CHAPEL: Recording your responses in this computer.
MIRA: But why? I haven't had a single response worth noting.
CHAPEL: Lieutenant, please.
MIRA: Well, have I?
SCOTT: She might have something there, Doctor McCoy. This is her first deep space trip, and you know that affects people.
MCCOY: Well, if we can get on with this, Scotty, we might make that determination. Now then, tell me. What did you feel before you passed out?
MIRA: Nothing.
MCCOY: Nothing?
MIRA: Absolutely nothing.
MCCOY: Lieutenant
MIRA: Doctor, there is nothing more I can tell you.
MCCOY: Lieutenant, you're being completely unco-operative!
MIRA: Are you putting that into my record? It's not true.
MCCOY: I'll put the facts into your record, if I can get them.
SCOTT: Come on now, Mira. We must help the doctor. Tell us what happened.
MCCOY: Perhaps you can explain to her that any career she hopes for in Starfleet requires discipline and co-operation.
SCOTT: I'm sure that's what the lieutenant wants. She just didn't understand. Did you now, lass?
MIRA: When the record of this is forwarded, I'll be sent back, won't I.
SCOTT: Oh, you will not! That's ridiculous. This getting used to space travel, that takes some doing. And not everybody takes to it.
MIRA: Did you?
SCOTT: Well, me, that's different. I was practically born to it.
MIRA: I want to continue.
SCOTT: You will. You passed your Starfleet preliminary examinations. And this is just getting used to what you might call your space legs.
MIRA: I hope that's all it is.
SCOTT: Scott here.
KIRK: Scotty, where've you been? Where are you?
SCOTT: In the Sickbay.
KIRK: Are you sick?
[Sickbay]
SCOTT: Och, no. I was just checking on the lass. She's going to be fine now. There's nothing wrong with her.
[Bridge]
KIRK: Well, I'm relieved to hear your prognosis, Mister Scott. Is the doctor there with you, or will I find him in Engineering?
[Sickbay]
MCCOY: McCoy here, Jim.
KIRK: Doctor, how's the girl?
MCCOY: I think she's in good shape.
KIRK: Well, Mister Scott seems to agree with you. The two of you meet me in the transporter room on the double.
(McCoy and Scott leave, then we see in Mira's eye the sparkles and an image of a dead alien presumably on Memory Alpha)
Captain's log, supplemental, stardate 5725.6. The storm has cleared Memory Alpha. It is heading away at incredible speed. We have been unable to make contact with the planetoid. Its silence is ominous. We are beaming down to investigate.
[McCoy's office]
KIRK: Bones, are you able to judge the long range effects on Lieutenant Romaine?
MCCOY: When the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are hazardous.
SPOCK: Particularly where humans are involved, Doctor.
MCCOY: However, despite Starfleet judgment of the pliancy of the Lieutenant, she put up a valiant struggle to retain her identity, and I find that encouraging.
SPOCK: Doctor McCoy is correct, Captain. While the truth was difficult to accept, when it was revealed, the girl reacted well. I would say her struggle in this experience would strengthen her entire ego structure.
KIRK: Would either of you credit Scotty's steadfast belief in her as a factor?
SPOCK: You mean, love as motivation? Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion. I suppose it is possible. However
MCCOY: There are no howevers about it, Mister Spock. It was a factor, and it will be a factor in the girl's recovery.
KIRK: Do I take it both of you agree that Lieutenant Romaine need not return to Starbase for further treatment?
MCCOY: Well, I should think work would be a better therapy.
SPOCK: Logical.
KIRK: Captain Kirk to Mister Scott.
SCOTT: Scott here, sir.
KIRK: Mister Scott, how's Lieutenant Romaine?
SCOTT: Beautiful, Captain.
KIRK: Yes, Mister Scott. Do I take it you say that she is fit for duty?
SCOTT: Positively, Captain.
KIRK: Thank you. Kirk to Bridge.
SULU: Sulu, Captain.
KIRK: Mister Sulu, set course for Memory Alpha. Lieutenant Romaine has a lot of work to do there.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:18 PM Pacific-time USA Thursday 02/16/2024
