I've been netflixing a bunch of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. I've seen most of them before, but it's been a while, and it's fun to rediscover the peices of the puzzle that I only vaguely remember.

The other day, I watched The Game, which is an episode about viral marketing that aired in 1991. Wesley Crusher, visiting the Enterprise on leave from Starfleet Academy, discovers everybody on the ship acting strangely and addicted to a video game. He meets a girl, recently graduated from the academy herself, and they work together to figure out what's going on.

When I last saw the episode, Wesley and his girlfriend were much older than me; and now they're much younger. This isn't depressing, but it is surprising. Most of the other characters still seem older than me. Yay?

This also reminds me of another type of game, which I just lost. And so did you.