Anyone who's watched Star Trek is bound to recognize the Vulcan salutation made famous by Spock, the half-human science officer on the early days of Star Trek.
Today is apparently Star Trek Day, although it must be noted that though September 8th is the anniversary of the show's first airing in the US, here in Canada it premiered on September 6th. Maybe this was a sneak preview for benefit of William Shatner's fellow Canadians.
Fifty-nine years (since 1966), not a bad run for a show that began with lines about the starship Enterprise and "...its five-year mission".
As for the photo, it's a T-shirt from Vulcan, Alberta, a town that celebrates all things Star Trekkian, supposedly a shirt from Starfleet Academy, where crew members took their training. As for me, I wore the shirt (even though it's well worn, over all those years of 'training' as I watched reruns of the series) to a reading I was part of this summer, a reading where I read poems I wrote about Captain Kathryn Janeway, who appeared in Voyager, a later incarnation of this beloved series.
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