DON’T THINK EXTRA TERRESTRIAL

 

Don’t think Extra Terrestrial

When this question begs

What is ET short for?

It’s because he's only got little legs

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984)

 

“Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” is a Sci-Fi Action Adventure based on Gene Roddenberry’s original creation, story by Harve Bennett and Directed by Leonard Nimoy.

 

After the death of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and the Enterprise crew, Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Chekov (Walter Koenig), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Saavik (Robin Curtis) arrive at Spacedock for some essential repairs, only to discover that the Enterprise is to be decommissioned.

But when he learns that the Klingons are planning to steal the secrets of the Genesis Device from its creators (Bibi Besch and Merritt Butrick), for their own deadly purpose Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to thwart their enemies.

ON THE WAY TO MAYBURY HILL

 

As a young man H.G. Wells had spent an unhappy time living with an aunt in Horsell which was then close to Woking and is now part of the overall sprawl..

So, when he wrote his great science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds, he had the Martians land on Horsell common, in sight of where Wells had once lived.

This enabled him to have that area of Woking become the first to fall victim to the terrifying invaders weaponry.

In the novel the hero of the tale, having witnessed the first meteor fall to earth, was pursued by the merciless tripods from the common and along Maybury hill.

Were the invaders to land today they would have to negotiate a huge six-way roundabout, dissect a one-way system, a no left turn, a no right turn, two traffic light junctions, three pelican crossings and two quite appallingly designed mini roundabouts.

I think faced with the product of 21^st century traffic management and in particular Woking Borough Councils ill-judged town planning, that the Martians would have given up and returned home long before they were exposed to the pathogenic bacteria that eventually saw them off.

The world saved by the ineptitude of local government, what Irony.   

GAMBLING WAS NOT CONDONED

Gambling was not condoned

And using the Force wasn’t done

However, the Jedi Knights

Had a bet regardless and Obi Wan