5 May 2009
If I were a geologist on Star Trek…
Posted by Jessica Ball
…I could apply for a joint medical degree, because sometimes rocks need doctoring.
…Sometimes a rock hammer wouldn’t be enough to deal with those really stubborn minerals.
…I could give up hand lenses, thin sections, petrographic microscopes, microprobes, XRD, and point counting for this…
(although a good geologist would never give up their hand lens)
…It wouldn’t take me until the end of the episode to figure out that I could use the local geologic resources to make a cannon to fire at the angry dinosaur-type aliens.
…I’d be really popular whenever Scotty needed some new dilithium crystals.
Unfortunately, I’m not a geologist on Star Trek (they tend to be rather expendable, at any rate). But I will be a geologist watching Star Trek when the movie comes out on Friday!
(Sorry for the sparse posting – grading and finishing up the final version of my thesis proposal is eating up all my time! Something more substantial later this week, I promise.)
Ha! sound good to me! especially if I can be a geologist with the new cast! yum! 😛
If I were a geologist on Star Trek…I would avoid wearing red jumpsuits on away missions.
A fun post! Have you seen the new movie? We haven’t seen it yet, and if we are typical, we won’t until the DVD comes out.
[…] Like my fellow geoblogger Jessica Ball, I wish that I could be a geologist on Star Trek. I can think of no better, more exciting job than traveling the universe as a geological researcher for the United Federation of Planets. Sign me up, Starfleet! […]