I hope the Userland crew can get the static server and the weblogs.com XML feed up soon — I miss BlogTracker! But as we all know, Murphy rules, and we get things done only at his pleasure.

We’ve been watching the Nero Wolfe series on A&E and enjoying it a lot. But I guess we’re thieves, because we use TiVo and skip the commercials. Of course, I don’t remember signing any kind of contract requiring us to watch the commercials in the first place….maybe the contract is secretly encoded in the vertical blanking interval, along with the closed-captioning.

We have a busy weekend ahead of us — there’s Torah study and services tomorrow morning, then Jeffrey has a Secret Activity tomorrow night with the Kids’ Youth Group at shul; Sunday, there’s a blood drive, then we’re going to see a movie, and then there’s a concert at shul in the evening. I’ll be ready to rest on Monday, but I have to fly to Hawaii that afternoon.

Shabbat Shalom!

Nobody ever dies on Enterprise!

In contrast, on the original Star Trek, you could almost count on at least one Security corpse (or mysterious disappearance) before the first commercial break, leading to that well-known rule of survival:

Never wear a red shirt!

So my question is simple: with all the improvements in technology between Humanity’s first steps into the Universe (as shown in Enterprise) and the glory days of Starfleet (as shown in Star Trek), why did the life expectancy of the crew (especially those dumb enough to join Security) decrease so radically?