Still thinking about that Star Trek movie...

[VIDEO] I intended to post this video over at the Shedd School blog. Why was it relevant there? Because my time there are the old elementary school was when I first became a Star Trek fan. Any this video was the music for the end credits from the 2009 Star Trek movie.

Between 6th & 8th grades I began to collect not only the first 6 Star Trek films, but also many of the books about the franchise as well as even motion picture scores. Now this was all before the internet and before everyone got DVD and Blue-Ray crazy. In fact, my movie collection still included VHS tapes with the first eight Star Trek movies on VHS tape. Only the eleventh Star Trek movie is on DVD.

It's also relevent at the Shedd School blog because this is the time to end the school year. Around that time Star Trek: The Next Generation was ending it's 7 season run. The next movie would feature the cast from the 2nd Star Trek series and also Captain James T. Kirk.

Another reason is that Star Trek has once inspired me to consider becoming an astronaut. Until I reached college my goal was to major in engineering. While that idea hadn't entirely changed by the time I reached the 8th grade there was another aspiration that still has a lasting effect.

After studying for the required constitution exam for both the US & state constitution, my interest in government was so great that I declared in class that I'd like to be President of the United States. The lasting effect was that my major at Morehouse College was in political science.