Posted on 09/15/2016 3:27:52 AM PDT by Fai Mao
My friend Priscilla reminded me that tonight (tomorrow night in the continental US) is the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival.
Since everyone needs another holiday have a happy Moon Festival and go out and look at the moon.
A full moon. A full life.
Tet Trung Thu. The community here will celebrate with dragon, drums and lots of firecrackers, at least until the deputy comes around and says hey, yall can’t be shooting those things off.
You can have my moon cake.
We’ll both skip the lotus paste ones an head straight for the ice cream ones.
Fall....or Autumn starts in around 6 days. Mid autumn is in early November
Sun's about to rise, now.
Now you’re talking.
The proper term for this time is “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day”; our club used to hold a big bash each year for this (basically a fundraiser).
Traditionally, the period around the solstices was described as “midsummer” or “midwinter” and the time around the equinox as “mid-spring” or “mid-autumn.” Now we say the season begins at solstice or equinox.
How any of this matches up with the climate depends on where you are. It’s still “climate summer” here, even though Autumn officially begins on the 22nd.
BBC America had all of the first two years of STTOS on this past Thursday through Sunday for the 50th anniversary.
Happy Communing!
September 16 for me will always be, “100 Days ‘til Christmas” :)
“The Return of the Archons” is a first season episode of the original American science fiction television series Star Trek. It is episode #21 and was first aired February 9, 1967. It was repeated by NBC on July 27, 1967.
On stardate 3156.2, the Federation starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), arrives at the planet Beta III in the C-111 system where the USS Archon was reported lost nearly 100 years earlier.[5] Lt. Sulu (George Takei) is the only member of the landing party who beams up from the planet’s surface, and exhibits strange behavior. Kirk beams down with another party to investigate. They find the inhabitants living in a static, 19th-century Earth-style culture, with little or no individual expression or creativity. The entire culture is ruled over by cloaked and cowled “Lawgivers”, controlled by a reclusive dictator known as Landru (Charles Macaulay).
The landing party has arrived at the start of “Festival”, a period of violence, destruction, and sexual aggressiveness which apparently is the only time Landru does not exercise control over the Betan populace.[6]
Kirk’s landing party seeks shelter from the mob at a boarding house owned by Reger (Harry Townes), A friend of Reger’s suspects that the visitors are “not of the Body” (the whole of Betan society),[7] and summons Lawgivers. The Lawgivers kill Reger’s friend, Tamar (Jon Lormer), for resisting the “will of Landru”.
When the landing party refuses to do as the Lawgivers say, the Lawgivers become immobile and Reger leads the Enterprise landing team to a hiding place. Reger reveals that Landru “pulled the Archons down from the skies”. Contacting the ship, Kirk learns that heat beams from the planet are attacking the Enterprise, which must use all its power for its shields. Its orbit is deteriorating and it will crash in 12 hours unless the beams are turned off.
A projection of Landru appears in the hiding place, and Kirk and his team are rendered unconscious by ultrasonic waves and captured. The landing party is imprisoned in a dungeon, and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is “absorbed into the Body” and placed under Landru’s mental control.[8] Kirk is taken to a chamber full of high technology, where he is to be “absorbed”. But Marplon (Torin Thatcher), one of the priests of Landru who is immune to Landru’s control, rescues him and Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Returning to the dungeon, Reger and Marplon tell how Landru saved their society from war and anarchy 6,000 years ago and reduced the planet’s technology to a simpler level.
McCoy summons the Lawgivers to “absorb” Kirk and Spock, who subdue them and don their robes. Marplon takes Kirk and Spock to the Hall of Audiences, where priests commune with Landru.[9] A projection of Landru appears and threatens Kirk, Spock, and all Betans who saw the landing party with death. Kirk and Spock use their phasers to blast through the wall and expose the truth: the reclusive Landru is actually a computer and Landru who built the machine had died 6,000 years ago. The computer neutralizes their phasers. Kirk argues with the machine, telling it that it has destroyed the creativity of the people—killing “the Body”. Concluding that the computer’s prime directive is to destroy evil, Kirk forces the computer to self-destruct, freeing the people of Beta III.
The heat beams stop, and the Enterprise is saved. Kirk agrees to leave Federation advisors and educators on the planet to help the civilization advance, free of Landru’s dominance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons#Plot
I have the entire original series on my PC. Didn’t care much for the later series.
Not my favorite episode buy any stretch. Not the worst either. That award goes to “the Way to Eden” and “The Omega Glory”.
“...Don’t not know the words of the E Plebnista.”
Beside the Original Series, my favorite was “Enterprise”. Less PC and NO Prime Directive.
My wife is Vietnamese so we’ll be celebrating with her family. Enjoy the mooncakes :)
They are expensive in HK too.
Gosh, I didn’t realize it was only 100 days away...Thanks!
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