War is, of course, unnecessary. So what percentage of time in recorded history would you expect there to have been no war, if war was defined as a conflict claiming at least 1000 lives? Just 8% or 268 years in 3400 years of recorded history, according to a New York Times article in 2003. You can make that 268 years out of 3422 years as of 2025. That data suggests that to war is at least as human as to err. But if that’s not convincing enough, consider the popular, fictional Star Trek series of as realistically rosy a future as the 60s hippie could envision. Humanity has solved all of its unnecessary, universal problems like hunger and war. So what do we do? We go to war with aliens like the Klingons and Romulans! Of course, we didn’t start these wars, and we are only forced to engage in them, as we supposedly are wiser than that. However, I’m not convinced that if we were so wise, we wouldn’t be able to convince other intelligent species of the futility of war. It seems we can’t exist without war as a species, at least not for long from the suffering peace causes to some. Besides, how good a show would Star Trek be without its wars?
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Dress for the Dream You Want – My Star Trek DIPLOMAT PJs
That’s what I do in these Star Trek pajamas I designed with cuffs and epaulettes, and pant pockets, even!
Breaking Tie Myths with my First Tie
I sewed my first tie today, and for it, I balked all the traditional conventions of tie-making cause they made no sense to me. With my finished product, they still don’t.
Star Trek Tie of Cotton
1701 Tuque (double layered fleece)
1701 Tuque
This was the third tuque I made from my recently designed and fitted one piece double layered tuque pattern shown below. The ability to put something larger than a panel on the tuque is why you’d want to really use this pattern, as well as better durability, compared to the multiple panel patterns you usually find out there. Here, I grabbed some portraits of The Original Series Star Trek Enterprise crew from a cotton print, and appliquéd them onto the flat fleece before sewing together to form a shaped tuque.
TREK Long Tennis Shorts
This Star Trek original series cotton pattern was probably made for pajamas, but they work well for tennis shorts… and some pretty interesting tennis shorts at that. 🙂
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