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Captain’s Log

hings all feel a bit right now. Just how long have I been stuck in this motorway café? It feels as long as the gap cliffhanger, back in 1990. Waiting from June until September to discover the fate of Captain Picard felt like a lifetime back then. Little did we know how time would be passing when we looked at celebrating the 30th anniversary of ’s “The Best Of Both Worlds”, a classic that I’ve revisited yet again during lockdown. Sci-fi with a sense of real danger and consequence has always been my favourite – in the days before the internet and spoilers, how was I to know that Picard would live to be plagued by the Borg for another three decades?

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