Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈

I love the way this tune simply bursts in with a breezy sense of movement after the slower opening title track.

YouTube video by Sir Neville Marriner - Topic Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air

#ArtistFave15 J. S. BACH
#MusicChallenge Day 13

Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major (II: Air) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuko...

Another lovely, very famous tune.

YouTube video by Gabriel Syme Gordon Cole meets Shelly Johnson

They’re both so adorable! ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1M... #TwinPeaks

Photograph of Earth above the surface of the moon, photographed from lunar orbit by the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft.

Earth from lunar orbit, photographed from the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya (SELENE).

Oh wow, thank you Rick! That means a lot. I’ve loved my Enterprise rewatch, & I wasn’t even sure if I’d watch this episode (I did skip a few others, except in Season 3), but I’m very glad I did.

Wow!!! 🖖🏼💚

Blimey! 😃

Oh, thank you so much, Abby! Having just finished S4 I’m excited to hear yours & Chris’s in-depth thoughts. It’s such a strong season! 🖖🏼💚🥕

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Black and white photograph by Annie Leibovitz of Diane Keaton wearing a black hat and sunglasses, reclining on a beach with four big dogs.

Such sad news about Diane Keaton! Here she is on Santa Monica Beach (1997), photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Oh, that’s really interesting & somehow not what I expected! For me it’s the opposite; I feel uncomfortable or frustrated if I feel I’m imagining a scene “wrong”, such as a room being too modern, etc. Which happens quite often!

Aww, thank you, that means a lot! I felt very involved in the characters’ lives, especially in S3 & S4. I’ll miss them, although I’ll soon be back on my DS9 rewatch! And maybe a bit of a break from writing threads! 😊💜

Painting by Édouard Vuillard of a woman sewing by the light of a yellow lamp.

The Small Drawing-Room: Madame Hessel at Her Sewing Table (1917), by Édouard Vuillard

Black and white photograph by Edward Weston of a nude woman sitting in a chair, facing to the right, on a wooden floor against a shiny metallic background.

Nude (Margrethe) (1923), by Edward Weston

Painting by John Singer Sargent of a wheat field with trees in the distance, and reapers resting by some haystacks.

Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field (1885), by John Singer Sargent

Ah, not at all - I enjoy the interaction! 🖖🏼

Thank you so much. My sister has had a tougher time with it than me, I think, but I can’t imagine having lost her as well. As well as missing family, it’s left me with a heightened death anxiety because life feels so much less safe & secure.

It’s not at all weird when you’ve lost you brother. And yes, Lulu Wilson was wonderful. She was almost like the soul of the episode in a way.

Oh, what a close parallel to your own life in that episode! It must have been so tough for you. A friend of mine was similarly hit by Yvette Picard’s story in S2, & it profoundly affected how they felt about the whole season. Sometimes even beloved series are just too close to home.

You’re welcome - thank you for reading it! Yes, S1 was definitely about grief; no coincidence that Episode 1 was called “Remembrance”. I love how the theme is expressed in so many varied ways - it’s very rich & layered writing, especially in the first eight episodes, I think.

Pointillist painting by Théo van Rysselberghe of a windmill on a hill in sunshine.

Le Moulin du Kalf à Knokke, by Théo van Rysselberghe

“To Quiet all Pain and Strife”: Thoughts on “Nepenthe” “Helen, daughter of Zeus, took other counsel. Straightway she cast into the wine of which they were drinking a drug to quiet all pain and st...

Yes, of course, here it is: beyondthatnextstar.blogspot.com/2021/07/to-q... And thank you for expressing interest in it. I can understand why the episode was hard for you. And I’m so sorry about your brother’s death. I’ve had a lot of family bereavements since 2020 - it’s not easy, to say the least.

Indeed, yes. People (with good reason) remember Nepenthe as an episode like a warm, soft blanket, but I wrote a blog post once about how I think the whole thing is about grief. And the characters’ very different responses to it.

Absolutely, yes. The whole is kind of unsatisfying in a unique way, but there are so many wonderful moments & performances.

I don’t watch it often myself! It’s only because I was finishing a series rewatch. 🙂 And I can understand people seeing “Terra Prime” as the finale, but they’d miss so much.

Yes, Marina in that was so moving.

T’Pol’s hand on Shran’s shoulder, as Shran looks up with gratitude, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

Thank you so much! I’m so tired of hearing people say the same old things. And it takes me a lot of effort to write & post a thread this long! So I wanted it to be a labour of love. I noticed things in the episode this time that I’d completely forgotten, like this:

YouTube video by Julia Fischer - Topic Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona

#ArtistFave15 J. S. BACH
#MusicChallenge Day 12

Violin Partita No 2 in D minor (V: Ciaccona) www.youtube.com/watch?v=96KP...

Cumulatively powerful, & perhaps the greatest single piece of music ever written for the solo fiddle.

A photograph from the ISS, looking across the northern Sahara with sun glint on the Gibraltar Strait far in the distance.

Looking across the northern Sahara from the ISS, with sun glint on the Gibraltar Strait in the distance.

The NX-01 Enterprise flying towards a nebula, in the final shot of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

(23/23) But in at least two places, it made me tear up. Which is a remarkable thing in such a problematic episode, & I absolutely love it for that. #StarTrekEnterprise #carrotcrew

Archer (Scott Bakula) walking up to the stage, with T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) watching him, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

(22/23) Understandably, none of the actors were happy about this epilogue, yet they gave it their all & that fills me with gratitude. I can see what the writers were trying to do, & I wish they hadn’t because it wasn’t necessary. It causes awkwardnesses for any fan of these characters.