This was at my mother’s house for 20 years sitting on a shelf. My mom is a devoted Star Trek fan. My name is Scott Montgomery Priz (as in Commander Montgomery Scott), my brother’s name is James Kirk Priz […] and this thing sat on my mother’s shelf. My mom like me really likes being around people. But unlike me (I’m very fortunate in my friends) my mom just doesn’t have very many friends. She lives alone with my grandmother and she’s a little lonely frankly. And so this game that she purchased, I dunno 20 years ago, just sat there. […]

And so when I’ve come home to visit my mom I would see this game just resting on the bookshelf and it was always unbearably sad to me. My mom had purchased this with dreams or visions of inviting seven friends over and finding out who stole the orb of knowledge. And because she just didn’t have that many friends that mystery was never going to be solved. […]

This belongs in The Museum of My Mother’s Loneliness

Exhibited by Scott

Transcript edited by Sarah Crawford