I feel a need to fill the gap. This is what I do. I hate awkward silences, even if they are online.

So, I've been re-watching The 4400, this terribly underrated science fiction series about 4400 people who were abducted over 60 years, given special powers (mind reading, pre-cognition, healing, moving things with their brain. . .) and sent back to earth with the mission to save the future of humanity.

This has what, exactly, to do with dialysis and what not?

GETTING THERE! BE PATIENT!!

Anyway, the healer character (Shawn, for those who care) got me thinking. . .

Who freakin' cool would it be if you could just walk up to a guy and be like "Dude! Help!" and he'd be all like "Whateves." Shrug, stick his hands on you and 35 seconds later, you walk away, completely healed?

Pretty damned sweet, is what that is.

Indeed. There is no other way to describe that. Of course, this also leads me to another science fiction series. You all know it, or have at least heard of it: STAR TREK!

More specifically, the 4th Original Series Movie, Star Trek IV: The Journey Home. The premise of this movie doesn't matter except for the fact that a giant probe in the future leads the crew of the Enterprise to sling shot around the sun and travel back in time with their stolen Klingon Bird of Prey. After this uses up all their anti-mater (or something) Uhura and Chekov are forced to sneak onto the Nuclear Sub (Nuclear wessel . . lol) Enterprise to steal radioactive ions. And then, of course, a pretty corny and predictable chase scene occurs where Chekov falls and smashes his melon on the ground, landing him in a 1984 era hospital.

Um, 1. Tangent. 2. Point?

1. Ya, ya. 2. Getting there. Anyway again. So, as Chekov lays dying in the hospital, McCoy and Kirk, who has taken a break from wooing the local heroine, head to the hospital to save the day. (LOOK A LIVE KIDS, THE POINT IS COMING UP!!!!) On their way to the OR, they pass an elderly lady on a stretcher. McCoy, ever the Doctor asks her what's wrong and she replies Kidney Dialysis. With a shake of his head and "Dear God, what is this, the middle ages?" he digs around in his bag for a moment or two, pulls out a package of 2 pills and gives them to her, telling her to take them with water and call him in the morning.

After Kirk finishes locking the Dr.'s in the scrub room and McCoy saves Chekov with a few "Damn it man! Wake up!"'s, the group are on their way again and pass the same old lady, surrounded by Dr's who are all "I don't know what happened!!" over her chart while she bounces up and down calling out "I'm cured! I'm cured! That Dr. handed me some pills and I'm cured!"

So, this brings me back to the original "How freakin' cool!" comment at the beginning. How freakin' cool would it have been if we all could have slogged into the Dr.'s office, spilled out our woes and had him go "No prob! Take two of these and call me in the morning.'"? Man, that would have been super sweet.

HEY, SCIENCE FICTION. YEAH, I'M TALKIN' TO YOU. YOU ARE A GIANT TEASE!!! LIKE, DRUNKEN PROM GIRL WHO PASSES OUT AT THE LAST MINUTE TEASE!!

*Sigh* Oh Science Fiction. You are the biggest tease I know, but I just can't stop encouraging you. . . .

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