And so the sad sorry story of Star Trek: Enterprise draws to an end, and I'm hearing that the final episode will contain the revelation that the whole series has been a holodeck novel created by the crew of Picard's Enterprise. Bobby Ewing must be rolling in his shower.

Which brings us neatly to Wesley Crusher, recently up for vote as the most annoying character in Star Trek history. The title of this blog entry will probably only mean anything to those who've been online since the early days. My first realization that the internet was going to be a wild ride was a combination of a web site called paranoia (long since gone) and Usenet. And one of the early, bizarre Usenet groups (aside from alt.binaries.nude.celebrities) was named as above. Quite why Wesley deserved such vile I never really understood.

All of this blathering is only to introduce a link I found curious. Wil now has his own blog, part of which is a photoblog. Recently he posted a cryptographic puzzle that's causing quite a bit of interest amongst the geekerati.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with positronic brains, or why we never saw Beverley Crusher make out with Counsellor Troi, but it's intriguing nonetheless.

(Am I scraping the bottom of the barrel here?)