RE: That Time Skipping Caturday Would Have Gotten Earth Blown Up...

I was five when Star Trek IV came out ... it made a deep impression on me when it came to TV because I live in San Francisco. The idea that the humpback whale, very close to extinction in 1986, could be that important, lodged in my mind, and that started me to seeing the interconnectedness of all life. I also had Zoobooks and National Geographic and the Encyclopedia Britannica growing up, so I was aware of conservation efforts -- and, I remember having read in the Bible, "The righteous man cares even for his beasts," along with "I will destroy them that destroy the earth" in addition to the testimony of the first book of the Bible that mankind was originally put here as the caring steward, not the slave master, of creation. So, Adm. Benjamin Banneker-Jackson's view comes from a deep, deep base of formative understanding -- Star Trek IV is a huge reminder that we can be held to account in ways we don't expect, and, forty years later, this story is my homage to the ideas presented there!