Passive Aggression

            On Friday I finished writing an article about how I got barred recently from the Shab-e She’r reading series and the passive aggressive reasons that I think are really behind the ban. I sent it to K.J. Mullins at newz4u.net and she said she’d post it on Monday when there are more readers.

            Social media is paradise for passive aggressive people.

            I wrote about my Thursday night Poetry Master class and finally got caught up on my journal. 

            I read a couple of the poems that Vivian submitted for next week and I made some comments.

            I had my last piece of chicken or any meat until Easter. I boiled a potato and had it with some gravy while watching last week’s episode of Star Trek Discovery.

            Spoiler alert.

            Michael goes back to Vulcan to find out if her mother knows where Spock is. It turns out she is hiding him in a sacred cave where he is babbling endlessly. She reveals that when Spock was a child he had a learning disability that was a Vulcan version if dyslexia. In the cave he keeps carving images of the red angel into the walls with numbers under it. Sarek arrives and insists that Michael take Spock to Section 31 for treatment. Captain Leland of Section 31 assures her that he will not harm Spock but Philippa turns off the ship cameras in a corridor for sixty seconds and tells Michael that Leland’s intentions are not as he’s led her to believe. She says Michael must appear to be overpowering her when the cameras come on. They do some martial arts and Michael knocks Philippa out. Michael escapes with Spock in a shuttle. In addition to drawing the red angel and repeating the number sequence over and over, he also talks about a mirror. Michael figures the numbers are to be read in reverse and that they are coordinates. She heads for the planet they indicate.

            Meanwhile the Discovery is faced with a time anomaly. Pike and Tyler go out in a shuttle to investigate. They send a probe into the anomaly and the probe comes back 500 years older and altered. It attacks the shuttle and begins to probe the computers of the Discovery. It seems to have affected the robot crewmember Airiam. Since Pike’s shuttle is bouncing around in time only Stamets can locate it through his connection with the Mycelial network which apparently exists outside of space time. He is able to beam aboard the shuttle and help Discovery beam them out just before the probe destroys it.

            Tilly comments that every word becomes cool when you put the word time in front of it. It’s true. I can’t think of a word that doesn’t sound good with time as an adjective or adverb. “Time toilet”, “time spaghetti” and “time cancer” are all great examples. The only word that sounds worse with time in front of it is “time”.