eimarra | Teaching the next generation (Reply)

I started another Smoke and Drake flash, but it’s not done yet. Perhaps next week. Meanwhile, some random bits about streaming old TV shows for the kids:

I told my son that the Borg owe a lot to Braniac with the whole adaptability pretty much immune to the same trick twice. He was shocked. “Aren’t the Borg older than Braniac?”
“No, I was reading about Braniac at your age. The Borg didn’t show up until I was an adult.”

“Wasn’t Star Trek around?”

Well . . . TOS came out when I was a toddler. But TNG and the Borg? I was in college. And Braniac? I had to look it up; if you’re curious, his first appearance was July 1958.

His mind was blown. All of it was older than him, so specifics had eluded him.
During a different Justice League episode, my daughter had no clue who Terry McGinnis was. He’s Batman’s successor, originally from the Batman Beyond series. So I told her this, then said in an offhand fashion that the episode used time travel — “You know, like Doctor Who does.”
She accepted that totally. Genre-savvy six-year-old girl for the win!
And then, during dinner-time banter, “To Serve Man” came up. My husband pulled up Netflix and streamed the Twilight Zone episode so our son could get the full benefit of the reference.