Time is the fire in which we burn.

On the new year.

Like a lot of people who didn’t date much in high school, I was terribly excited to see “Star Trek: Generations” when it came out in 1994. It was my sophomore year in college, and things were looking up in pretty much every way: not least in that a girl who was trying to win me over actually surprised me with a “Generations” poster, which was a good sig…