I’m with you on punctuation in texts and will fight on that hill right beside you (though I draw the line at colons and semicolon—too far, language evolves). My sister, only 2 yrs younger, so still in our generation, has a young staff, so she sends unpunctuated monstrosities to me, an adjunct English Comp professor. We’re not speaking.

You and I part ways with Star Trek: TNG. From the moment the narration said “to boldly go where no ONE has gone before” I, as a person who had loved sci-fi since girlhood (despite its often incel “secretaries in space” mentality concerning roles for women), I was all in, especially with DATA (I often felt like an android, or other newly evolved species, as I singlehandedly desegregated most spaces I was in back in the day). That one word, ONE, included me, so I’ll always love TNG.

My sentences are getting a bit Proustian, so I’d better go get some coffee. (Sips) Fun piece. Thanks.