Roy's downtime Adventures

 Today's random episode recommendation is one of my favorite Star Trek episodes: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1 Episode 19 "Duet" A little context for those who have never seen Star Trek, then  I will recommend you watch the episode and finally I will give some of my thoughts on this great piece of fiction. This series takes place on a space station and it follows the adventures of the crew.  Many consider it the best Trek series, myself included.  Sure it’s from the 90s and some episodes look it, especially the first 2-3 seasons, but it’s my favorite due to its great characters and great storytelling, mostly filled with thought-provoking stories and moral dilemmas, as well as compelling story arcs and epic space battles. We have Major Kira Nerys from the planet Bajor.  Her people just recently endured the past 50 years of oppression, slavery and deaths by another alien race, the Cardassians.  The occupation from this oppressive race recently end...

Sooo my wife wasn't feeling too well so she was not able to take me on.  Although she isn't much of a gamer, she is really good.  Beats me more than I'd like to admit.  So I went up against the AI bot in the game.  And when I play solo, I like to give the AI a name of a villain, because I am, naturally, the good guy.  I usually go with the name of Khan . Many wonder how you can play a board game by yourself, that that’s crazy. And sad. But it’s so much fun! And you definitely can if the designers of the game have included it. And Mr. Almes designed this game to be able to be played that way by Khan using his very own deck of cards. So basically, I take a turn, I then turn over a card for Khan and that card will basically simulate a real player by taking over a spot on the board that will make it harder or impossible for me to go there. Let's see how the first round went. I hope this does not bore anyone!  It was definitely fun to play. All I have to do is f...