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title = "Star Trek: Voyager 05x23 - 11:59"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-05-09T23:17:00+02:00
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Jenway reminisces about her distant relative, Shannon O'Donnell, who was one of her biggest inspirations to join the fleet.
## Impressions {#impressions}
Did we deserve some bookstore porn?
Because we've got one!
I think we all dreamed about selling and surrounding ourselves with books, even if we don't read much these days.
And how did we get it?
Most of this episode happens right before the year 2000 - hence, the episode's name.
No space travel, replicators, aliens.
And it looks glorious!
I forgot how much I love the classic TV aesthetic, with those _perfect_ smaller American cities.
I don't have any idea if US ever looked like this, but image of such city is forever etched into my brain.
It's not as disgusting as in _Midnight Cowboy_ nor as dirty as in _Coming to America_[^fn:1]
Yet, it's still kind of same?
And TV had this specific _feeling_ of enclosed spaces full of close up shots.
Be it _Seinfeld_ or _Cojack_, America never looked better.
Nowadays, TV series pretend to be cinema movies.
They fail miserably at this, but they try.
Kids will not know how a TV shot can look like.
And it's so fitting, as the story here is about our relation with history.
Is it as perfect as we remember it?
Does it matter if we look at it through pink tinted glasses?
I don't think so and nor does the Trek crew here.
All glory to then!
11:59 is a cute little episode.
I enjoyed it immensely, even though in 3 years I'll have no memory of ever seeing it.
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Books and books and books and books
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[^fn:1]: I've been raised in the 90s, so I was subjected to USA's cultural propaganda and I still love it.
Movies were simply better back then.
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