Earwigs are unlikely to cause an affinity for Star Trek

Thunder Bay was overrun by polar bears last summer (well - it was cold enough for polar bears to survive in T Bay last summer), but even worse than the threat of polar bears dining on your sweet, environmentally destructive flesh were the earwigs that occupied every crevice and crack in your life.  Well...maybe not every crack and crevice but a lot of crevices and cracks.

Pictured below is an earwig (I named him "Wiggy") who decided it was a good idea to hang out in the corner by our bedroom.  WRONG.  EARWIG SURVIVAL FAIL.  He was swiftly and deftly dealt with.

T Bay had an unseasonably cold and wet summer which led to record high earwig populations.  There was even a article in the paper about it that.  The article was suspiciously non-committal regarding the correlation between earwigs and insanity.  Statements like "earwigs are unlikely to crawl into the brain via the ear and cause insanity" and "madness is probably not the result of an earwig bite" made me question the credibility of the article.  Seriously T-Bay reporter?  Did that scene from Wrath of Khan disturb you so much that there is a part of you that hesitates to flat out state that earwigs do not crawl in your ear and cause insanity?  I liked Chekov too, but his performance wasn't THAT convincing.

Ceti Eels - they're not even real.  I bet a real day in space would be more like this...