{"id":575694,"date":"2010-05-22T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2010-05-22T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:00:28","slug":"the-rikers-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575694","title":{"rendered":"The Rikers | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221; premiered my first year of grad school, and the last episode aired my last year. It bookended my career as a student getting a PhD in astronomy, and so it has personal meaning for me. Also, I simply loved the show. And I mean love like grown-up love; I accepted its faults as well as the times it exceeded the sum of its parts. <\/p>\n<p>On <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/scifi\/comments\/c6i5v\/interview_with_marina_sirtis_and_jonathan_frakes\/\">reddit<\/a>, I found a link to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JI8ezrK6Qjs\">this video<\/a>, an interview with Marina Sirtis (Troi) and Jonathan Frakes (Riker), and if you&#8217;re a TNG fan, it&#8217;s a must-see. It&#8217;s simply wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JI8ezrK6Qjs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Its starts off a little goofy and fun, and ends really quite warmly. They seem like genuinely nice people &#8212; and if you read Wil Wheaton&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/product\/paperback\/memories-of-the-future---volume-1\/6171588\">Memories of the Future<\/a> you&#8217;ll find out they really were. That&#8217;s nice to know.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f6raH36FIOYqcb7hwuORGASEBpo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f6raH36FIOYqcb7hwuORGASEBpo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f6raH36FIOYqcb7hwuORGASEBpo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f6raH36FIOYqcb7hwuORGASEBpo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/7PzZcaYhyR8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/D1dwWpedVh0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221; premiered my first year of grad school, and the last episode aired my last year. It bookended my career as a student getting a PhD in astronomy, and so it has personal meaning for me. Also, I simply loved the show. And I mean love like grown-up love; I accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}