#StarTrekTNG "Thicker Than Water" The Enterprise is sent into a volatile situation after a Starfleet admiral defects to a shadow government. Geordi's new Schrödinger's Tricorder may or may not have disturbing news about Spot. Transporter chief: Barry Manilow.

I feel this.

Street in Venice (1882), by John Singer Sargent

The Japanese Footbridge (ca 1899), by Claude Monet

Really cool! Go Voyager-1 -- wonderful milestone! spacedaily.com/d-in-novembe...

Still my favourite Spielberg film, taking me right back to 1977 when I was a bit obsessed with it! These days, I don’t believe in alien visitation for a moment. But it’s so brilliantly made that for 2 hours I can suspend disbelief, & watch with the eyes of a child. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjb...

An instant reminder that once, many years ago, I was 17 and in love with this song and video. Directed by David Mallet, it’s so memorable, telling a love story in miniature (with a political point on colonialism). At one point, Bowie thought about calling the song “Last Dance”. 👠👠💙🎶

Your last saved image is your current mental state: It’s a GIF, so I don’t know if it counts, but I’m going with it.

Sitting Woman Combing Her Hair, by Edgar Degas

As the universe is expanding, I think our season 4 trailer is best experienced horizontally. Still pinching myself that I have gotten to write for Star Trek since s1. The adventure continues on July 23! I wish there were an appropriate hand signal to mark the occasion. Oh wait! 🖖🏻 #StrangeNewWorlds

Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. - Notebook B, 1838

Reminder that June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month (in America, at least)

Life Study of an Egyptian Girl (1891), by John Singer Sargent.

The Beach at Trouville (1870), by Claude Monet

The only Data center I'm down with.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. - Autobiography

Portrait of a Man (ca 1877), by Edgar Degas

(1/2) So Apollo-Soyuz, a subject of derisive laughter from Margo at the start of S2, became a peaceful counterpoint to the rising Cold War tensions of the season. In the end, Ed did the right thing, Danielle disobeyed orders to abort, & Reagan & Andropov took credit. But it paid off! #ForAllMankind

#ArtistFave15 VAN MORRISON #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Day 15: I Cover the Waterfront (with John Lee Hooker, 1991) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjj_... Lovely cover of the jazz standard.

Too soon is an understatement 💔

What a wonderful surprise! Our friends from The Netherlands, Anne & Frans, visited us on their way to holiday in Cornwall & Devon. Anne became my pen pal in about 1991, when we wrote loooooong letters to each other (by hand!), & first met face to face in 2014. It was amazing to see them again!

Sounds of the ISS, courtesy of @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. - The Descent of Man, ch.4

New Australopithecus discovery drives home that the evolution of humanity was a crowded, branching tree, not a ladder. Between 2.6-2.8 million years ago, early Homo shared an Ethiopian landscape with a previously unknown species of Australopithecus. Science Daily buff.ly/Or2UefT #ShareGoodNewsToo

Having finished the first two seasons of For All Mankind, I’ve been looking at screencaps from S3. This space hotel design (set in 1994!) is such a wonderful homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey! 😊

Breakfast in the Loggia (1910), by John Singer Sargent

The Fort of Antibes (1888), by Claude Monet

He felt awe as he looked up at those stars, but also a deep and abiding contentment, such as he had felt as a child, safe and warm beneath his quilt, drowsing half in and half out of sleep, listening to the wind sing its lonely song of other places and other lives.

#ArtistFave15 VAN MORRISON #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Day 14: On Hyndford Street (1991) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbFE... An album ranging from grumpy complaints about the music biz to mellow love songs & a fervently sung hymn. And then there’s this… In the days before rock ‘n’ roll…

This is amazing! I’m a bit slow so at first I was “what the f is happening?” 😂, but it was totally worth it. A lifetime’s supply of 🥕🥕🥕 to both hosts!

After the Bath (ca 1893), by Edgar Degas

Among all the absolutely terrible things about Lone Skum, what I think doesn’t get remarked on enough is that he’s such an ugly bastard.

(1/3) In a dark For All Mankind episode (“Triage”), there were welcome moments of hope & joy, & I felt like cheering when Danielle Poole, moments before the launch of Apollo-Soyuz, quoted Captain Kirk:

#ArtistFave15 VAN MORRISON #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Day 13: Coney Island (1989) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtJ... I could probably enjoy a whole album of Van doing this kind of thing. I always liked it, but now that I’m much older the nostalgia hits me differently.

Artemis II just keeps on giving. 🌘

🎶 And if I die today I’ll be the Happy Phantom 🎶 And I’ll go chasing the nuns out in the yard

Venice, Gondolas Off San Giorgio Maggiore (1902), by John Singer Sargent

Morning on the Seine near Giverny (1897), by Claude Monet

#ArtistFave15 VAN MORRISON #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Day 12: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (1987) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qp1... A moving rendition of the black American spiritual, & my favourite thing on this album.

I was right: it did not end well. Let’s hope they never, ever militarise the Moon. #ForAllMankind

Feeling a lot of anxiety at the moment. Any beautiful or funny pictures, memes or kind words would be so much appreciated. Thank you, my friends. ❤️

Four new and previously unseen images from the Artemis II mission, just posted by NASA Johnson www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... #Artemis 🧪🔭

Bather Stepping into a Tub (ca 1890), by Edgar Degas

Our poor dear dear child has had a very short life but I trust happy, and God only knows what miseries might have been in store for her. - letter to Emma Darwin on Annie's death, 23 April 1851

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I’ve seen some clips from Star City, & I think the scenes in lunar orbit look more convincingly like the real Moon than similar scenes in For All Mankind (many of which were still quite good, IMO). Sorry, I’m a Moon nerd! I’ve just seen far too many close up pictures of the real thing. 😂🌒

Glad to see that Danielle, the character in For All Mankind who has her head screwed on better than any of the others, did what I expected, & scratched her name up with Gagarin’s, Tereshkova’s & Leonov’s. She’s a legend already, & belongs there!

Curse you, alternate timeline Reagan! Gung ho marines on the Moon is fucking obscene, & I fear it will not end well. 🙁 #ForAllMankind

Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison is absolutely fantastic, & has made this complex woman my favourite character. Knowing some of what lies ahead of her makes my heart ache, but she’s so wonderful to watch, & I loved her quiet scene with Sergei in “Don’t Be Cruel”. And i love her accent! #ForAllMankind

#ArtistFave15 VAN MORRISON #MusicChallenge #Musicsky Day 11: Queen of the Slipstream (1987) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abcj... Much of this album is pretty easy listening, but there’s something uplifting about this song.