The garage is finally getting cleared out (thanks, Travis!), and I found this book while looking through some boxes. I looked at it, wondering when I bought it, as it rang absolutely no bells.
“Maybe,” I thought, “someone beamed it into my garage at some point in the past, and I’m just now finding it. Or maybe I time-traveled back to leave it in this box because… something important is about to happen, and this book is the crux of a historical turning point, and I will use it to save the world! Or maybe it’s a glitch in the Matrix, and I should really worry about stern looking men in black suits, wearing earbugs and black sunglasses!”
Well, no, not really. But I really don’t recall when or where I purchased this book. It’s copyrighted 1991, so at some point after that date, at the earliest 1994, because my bookmark is from where I work, and I must have picked it up at B. Dalton or Waldenbooks.
I sat down last night, and started reading. I figured I’d remember the story, or at least find it familiar, as I’m pretty good about recognizing something I’ve already read.
Not happening this time.
It’s a collection of shorter stories, all set in the same “universe”, with the main character present in all the stories. It’s about a man from 1954 recruited to be a “time cop”, and keep history from being tampered with once time travel is invented in the distant future. The “time cops” recruit from up and down the timeline for suitable operatives, and the various stories in the book jump from a vacation base camp in the Pleistocene era, to millennia into the future.
The top marker is how far I’ve gotten since I picked the book up yesterday, and the bottom one is where I must have left off when I put the book in the box.
What I’m finding odd is that I don’t recall any of the stories I’ve read so far. Nothing is ringing a bell, and it’s like a new book for me. I usually remember things I’ve read, and it’s a bit strange to be completely blank with this one. I’m hoping I’ll remember it as I read more, but so far, nothing.
I’ve often compared my memory to an old hard drive. I’ve got everything up there, it just takes time to spin up and locate the data. I’m hoping that’s what’s happened here, and it’s just taking a long time to find the correct file. I’m hoping nothing got overwritten in the intervening years!
Time to jump back into the future/present/past, and see where I end up. I hope nobody screws up the timeline!
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Section 31 – The Movie
January 24, 2025
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Just watched the new Star Trek movie on Paramount +.
Section 31
1 hour and 35 minutes.
It’s the A-Team in space.
Visually stunning, with great care given to the space station bar where part of the action takes place, along with some hotel and residence rooms. Some of the ships and other locations were – meh.
The dialog was – terrible.
It really does come across like the A-Team, even with the fate of the quadrant at stake.
I was expecting so much more.
Too much reliance on fight scenes and ‘funny’ quips.
The bad guy was not very deep.
Did I say I was expecting so much more?
Some naysayers have been saying, and will continue to say, they destroyed Star Trek with this, but that’s not going to be true. This is along the lines of ‘Very Short Treks’. A plausible idea that was executed poorly.
They might save the idea of a Section 31 series of short movies, but only if the next one, if there is a next one (and there probably won’t be), is very-very good. Another like this one and we won’t hear from Section 31 for a hundred years or so.
I must say, I was expecting more.
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