Buttons and Sayings : Part 2

Continuing this months theme of just fun are more buttons and sayings owned by the blogger.

Dr. Who
1. Want a Jelly Baby?
2. Doctor Who Fan Club of America
3. The Friends of Doctor Who
4. Have T.A.R.D.I.S. Will Travel
5. Cybermats, why does it have to be Cybermats.
6. I feel absolutely lost without my Sonic Screwdriver.
7. Renegade TimeLord.
8. Little boy, I don't care if your dog can talk. Please tell him this is a T.A.R.D.I.S. not a way-back machine.

Quantum Leap
1. Oh, Boy!
2. Things went a little caca.
3. God I wish he was here so I could kick his butt!
4. It's just a musical.
5. She could tickle my ivories anytime.
6. You were an actor?! Don't say it like it was a disease.
7. Maybe you just have a thing for piano players.
8. To dream the impossible dream. To Fight the unbeatable foe.

Star Trek
1. Space. The Final Frontier.
2. I love my Enterprise.
3. Beam me up, Scotty.
4. Beam me up, Scotty, the elevators are full.
5. UFP. (And a lovely copy of the flag/symbol)
6. There are few problems in the galaxy that cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser-fire.
7. Star Fleet Security ID. Division: Command. Computer Bio-Scan Data. 

X Files
1. FBI Special Agent Fxo Mulder
2. FBi Special Agent Dana Scully
3. Spooky
4. You have a friend at the FBI.
5. The X Files
6. I Believe
7. The guy in the ugly suit is probably CIA.

Credit given to the various studios and vendors these buttons were bought from.

Bumper Stickers - Just for fun

Today's blog is just fun. Listed below are a number of bumper stickers the blogger owns. No. Not all are Christian. Some were bought at various Science Fiction conventions.

1. The Big Bang Theory: God spoke and BANG it happened.
2. If you're living like there is no God, You'd Better Be Right!
3. My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter.
4. (Darwin fish being eaten by a Jesus fish) Survival of the Forgiven.
5.Are you making an appointment with St. Peter on that cell phone?
6. Have you hugged your Tiger today?
7. "Normal' is a setting on my washing machine.
8. Welcome to Collinwood.
9. There can be only one!
10. This property protected by Lord Avon.
11. No good deed EVER goes unpunished.
12. Zines! Drugs would be cheaper.
13. Picard/Riker : Leadership for the Next Generation.
14. Picard for President. Make it so! The #1 Choice.
15. Engine by Scotty: 0 to Warp 7 in fifteen seconds!
16.  At Warp Factor 9, they ALL look green to me!
17. There are few problems in the galaxy which cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser fire.
18. Odo's Gym. Klingon tested! Get in shape - any shape!
19. You're following a Firefly fan!
20. Dragon Wagon.
21. Keep off my tail or you'll get burned.
22. Dragons love you - dipped in chocolate. (burp)
23. Cat: I must destroy something immediately!
24. Cats humor us because they know that their ancestors ate ours.

Credits : Instant attitudes. Pegasus Publishing. Cafe Press. Mere Dragons. Bridgeport Nature Center. Harbor House Gifts. 

'Why Not Question' : Religion and Star Trek

'Bread and Circuses', an episode from Classic Star Trek, dropped the heroes Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy, into a Roman based world. The only thing striking them odd about the whole thing was a spreading belief about sun worship. It did not jive with what they knew about Rome back on Earth.

At the end, when they were finally safe back on the bridge of the Enterprise, it was Uhura who informed them it wasn't about worshiping the sun, rather, the son of God. It clicked in Kirk's mind that Rome also had Christ and wow, the word was just getting around.

Unfortunately, in Star Trek Next Generation, any type of belief in God had been done away with and the galaxy, a hundred years later, was filled with atheists. Although the crew did, from time to time, run into beings with religious beliefs, any type of belief in God was completely ignored.

Which begs the question, what happened in those hundred years to destroy God in the eyes of humanity? A question not answered by the writers and giving the new show a different flavor from the original.