I translated the first three verses and the chorus of “Dessous mon pull” (Under My Sweater) by Serge Gainsbourg. That’s over half the song so I might be done with that tomorrow and then I’ll start memorizing the lyrics.
I weighed 87.6 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since April 2.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the last of two sessions and it stayed in tune most of the time. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic and chances are it will be out of tune most if not all the time.
Around midday I rode to No Frills where all the grapes were too soft and so I got three bags of oranges instead. I also bought three packs of raspberries, some bananas, a loaf of multigrain sandwich bread, mouthwash, dental floss, a box of saltine crackers, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two containers of skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips.
I weighed 88.05 kilos at 14:20. March 28 was the last early afternoon when I was so easy on the scale. I had saltines with peanut butter, saltines with baba ghanoush, and a glass of iced tea.
I took a siesta from 15:00 to 16:47. It was too late for a bike ride downtown but I rode to Ossington and Bloor.
I weighed 88.6 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:49.
I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and then exported to my computer a Christian and the Lions Sedated Sunday concert at the El Mocambo. Tom Smarda was on his Stratocaster, Steve Lowe was on acoustic guitar, Mike Martin was on drums, and Bob Cook played harmonica as a guest on a couple of songs near the end. I sounded drunk but I also couldn’t hear myself sing for the first few songs. We did my songs “I Saw My Reflection in an Open Wound”, “The Next State of Grace”, “Seven Veils of Armour”, “Thin Red Line”, “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” and “Seven Shades of Blues”. The band sounded pretty chaotic and it wasn’t one of our best concerts. Yesterday I tried to digitize the same recording but it was too distorted but this time I established the gain level on my interface that was generally below any clipping and just kept it there without adjusting it. This time there was no distortion. Tomorrow I’ll try to digitize another Christian and the Lions concert, this one at The Rivoli.
I deleted several images from my hard drive.
I made pizza on a slice of seven grain bread with marinara, tomato pesto, two slices of bacon, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching episode 8 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Tarima returns to school but they have decided to transfer her from the War College to the Academy because they think it will be more conducive to her recovery. If she were to let loose her full power again it could kill her. She needs to study science rather than combat in order to survive. Caleb is happy to see her but she ignores him.
All of the cadets are suffering from PTSD after their experience with the attack on the Miyazaki. Sylvia Tilly has been brought in to give them all veiled therapy in the form of drama class. She tells them to select plays to read in class. SAM is the only student excited about a theatre class. Tilly says she doesn’t care if any students don’t like it. SAM has read half of the 20th Century melodramas in a matter of minutes.
SAM has been glitching ever since the Fury attack but she is ignoring the symptoms.
In the next class Kraag recites a Klingon opera.
SAM selects the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. She says it is about hopeful defiance. Suddenly SAM collapses and goes into convulsions. She is taken to sick bay and tells the Doctor it feels like she’s falling into herself. The Doctor says her processors have been overloading ever since the attack. Each glitch triggers her recess circuit which overloads causing another glitch. Her system is self destructing and he doesn’t know how to fix her. Captain Ake says she and the Doctor will take SAM back to Kasq to be healed.
With SAM gone it’s hard for the others to focus on the play. Caleb and Tarima are supposed to play George and Emily in Our Town. Tarima says it’s bullshit and Tilly reprimands her. It’s really hard to believe Tilly is suddenly qualified to teach drama when we know her as an engineer who never expressed any interest in theatre before.
Caleb gets a message from Tarima to meet her but he finds her drunk. She comes onto him but he doesn’t want to connect with her when she’s inebriated.
SAM, the Doctor, and Namah arrive on Kasq. The Makers know of the Doctor and recreate his world to honour him. They say they need to Swarm with SAM in order to assess her problem. She asks the Doctor to hold her hand but he refuses.
As they work on the play, Tarima suddenly blows up and accuses Tilly of manipulating them all so she can pat herself on the back. She wanted to be at the War College where she was making friends but she wasn’t given a choice. Now no one will look her in the eye or touch her. She doesn’t need to play Emily because she’s already a ghost. Tilly tells her the difference between her and Emily is she gets to come back and everyone wants her to. Tarima walks away.
The Makers say there is no way to save SAM. They say the Organics killed her and they will not send an Emissary back to the slaughter. They terminate SAM and she falls silent and motionless.
SAM’s friends discuss how SAM chose the play as a way of holding on while she was falling apart. Ocam starts reading his part as the Stage Manager and the others join in with their parts.
The Doctor talks to SAM even though she is gone and explains why he couldn’t hold her hand. 800 years ago when he was on Voyager he lived a life with a holographic family and had a daughter who died. When he first met SAM he saw his daughter in her. He couldn’t risk feeling that loss again by getting too close to her. The Makers didn’t give SAM any preexisting memories and the Doctor argues that she needed to have had a childhood in order to process the experiences of young adulthood. Nahla suggests that they rebuild Sam but this time with a real parent. The Doctor knows she means him and he says no. Nahla says it’s time for him to stop telling the story and start being part of it.
The Doctor tells the Makers he’ll parent SAM and they agree. Time is different on Kasq. He spends 17 years raising her even though it only takes two weeks of Earth time. All the while she still has the memories of her time at the Academy.
Tarima returns to participate in the play as Emily.
SAM returns alive to the Academy. It must be weird to grow up from childhood and the whole time to have complete memories of being a young adult.
The Doctor is played by Robert Picardo, who starred in the European premiere of Mass. He entered Yale as a pre-med student but graduated with a degree in Drama. He was a member of Yale’s Society of Orpheus and Bacchas a-cappella singing group. He enrolled in the Circle in the Square Professional Theatre Workshop. He made his Broadway debut in Gemini in 1977. His TV debut was on Kojak in 1977. He played Officer Maxwell on the sitcom Alice. He was nominated for an Emmy for his role of Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years. He co-starred in the series China Beach. His film debut was in The Howling in 1981. He played the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager, in Star Trek: Prodigy, and in the film First Contact. He played Richard Woolsey on three Stargate shows. He co-starred in the movie Innerspace, Matinee, and Ben 10. He is an accomplished singer. He wrote The Hologram’s Handbook. He toured with John De Lancie in the show Star Trek: the Music. Since 1999 he’s been on the board of directors for the Planetary Society.
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