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Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in some of the neighbourhoods I did, there was absolutely no way that your mix tape in the boombox would not have at least one if not several tracks by Kool & The Gang.

So when it came time to celebrate co-founding member Ronald Bell who left us six years ago, it wasn’t a hard set to put together finished off by his favourite track of them all.

Game 1 Warm-Ups

Post-Game

There was no way that this lifelong fan of Star Trek was going to forget about the 60th anniversary of the original series debuting on NBC in 1966. Not even if the universe is threatening to come to an end unless Captain Kirk and his crew of the USS Enterprise save the day as they always would.

No one would have imagined that a series sold as “Wagon Train to the Stars” that had to fight through two letter-writing campaigns to stay on the air and was finally canceled after it’s third season would become such a cultural phenomenon.

There would be an animated series and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” over the next decade but it was “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” in 1982 that ensured that we’d be following the adventures of the United Federation of Planet’s Starfleet and their flagship of the fleet through many years of adventures.

The original series was groundbreaking for it’s era and was not at all afraid to take on hot-button issues such as racism (during the Civil Rights Movement) and featured the first interracial kiss in broadcast television history.

Gene Roddenberry’s vision was of a universe of infinite diversity in infinite combinations where the compelling interest was to explore and go where no one had gone before and in a lot of ways would be a wonderful place to bring to reality.

So may you live long and prosper and have peace and long life! IDIC. 🙂