is considered by many now to have been way ahead of its time back in 1966 when it first hit the television airwaves. So isn’t it about time that this series come to the new media format of Blu-Ray? And just in time for J.J. Abrams’ reimagining of the franchise, hitting theaters this Friday.

As of Friday, Star Trek: Season One was number on in Amazon’s Blu-Ray category, which bodes well for the future of the series. Everything that’s been accomplished with the Star Trek name started with the first season of the first series, so this set is the ambassador for the new generation who were smart enough to get Blu-Ray players instead of HD-DVD players.

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“With my investment in this family, I think I should have some say.”– Virginia blackmails Gaby on Desperate Housewives.

I’ve missed Frances Conroy and sad Ruth Fisher since the end of Six Feet Under, so I was excited when she turned up on Desperate Housewives for a multi-episode arc as a crazy old rich lady. Virginia Hildebrand is the kind of desperately lonely person that you feel sorry for, but completely hate at the same time. She makes me uncomfortable, but is still eminently entertaining.

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(Season 2, Episode 8 – “The Lizard-Spock Expansion”)

Okay, here’s how it goes. I’m only going to tell you once:

Scissors cut paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitate lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock and, as it’s always been, rock crushes scissors. I may have to give a pop quiz on this at the end of this entry. Read on.

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