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Stealing the title of Star Trek's TNG finale. It was a great two-parter. My favorite scene is the last one. Captain Picard, who's never joined the officer's weekly poker game before, shows up and asks if he can play. They welcome him to the table and hand him the deck. I forget what game he called and what cards were wild, though I remember him ending with "and the sky's the limit." That's a neat sentiment to end on. Does the sky have a limit? I suppose it depends on how one defines "sky". There's certainly scientific terms to differentiate the layers and types of clouds and atmosphere levels, but that seems a rather dry way to explain the sky. Poets speak of the sky and the heavens, sometimes interchangeably and other times as distinct places. There's children everywhere who've dreamed of flying, by plane or space shuttle or fighter jet through an endless view of blue. That leads my thoughts the Never Ending Story. Atreyu is task