Man, it’s like Revenge of the Enterprise Threads today. They’re everywhere. It’s scary.
Well, yeah, Enterprise is kind of pathetic. But there’s plenty of nudity and vaseline and pandas, so I can’t really complain.
It is a bit of a bummer that they have these clever ideas for each series, like “Let’s have a ship get whooshed off to the edge of the galaxy and try to find its way home,” and “Let’s go back in time to before Kirk and the boys and see how that-all got started,” and then it turns out all gagful and loserish. But what the hell - at least it passes the time.
The way I look at it is, if you can’t forgive the continuity missteps, plot holes, poor writing, embarassing acting, sexual objectification, scientific errors and all around foolishness, don’t watch it. For my part, I find all those things kind of amusing, so it’s an entertaining diversion for me.
Love you, love your shoes* -
Kn*ckers
*Sorry, I have no idea why I thought that would be a good closing line. I’m going mad.
Battlestar Galactica
Wonder Woman
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Buck Rogers
The Incredible Hulk
The Night Stalker
Logan’s Run
The Man from Atlantis
Mork & Mindy
Space 1999
UFO
Well, as I said, I don’t normally watch the show. But I think even in the absence of Starfleet there should reasonably have been some sort of mandatory training in cultural sensitivity, if for no other reason than that the human crew is multiethnic.
I was hoping for something along the lines of Brin’s Uplift series where the humans were the Vulcan’s bitch but still pulling crazy and outlandish stuff that constantly pushes the patience of their patrons.
Of course after reading Startide Rising, I hated the Uplift series, but the whole idea behind it is pretty cool.
I just don’t see how this show is establishing any history with the major forces of the galaxy like the Klingons, Vulcans and Romulans when they’re always meeting up with some forehead of the week that doesn’t appear in any of the “future” episodes or serieseseses. It would be pretty cool if they visited Bajor and got involved, against the Vulcan’s will, with the Cardassians and Bajoran conflict or occupation then had their asses thoroughly trounced by the Cardassians with the Vulcans saying “I told you so”. Of course that would only be child psychology of telling someone “I was right” and making the child do it again to prove the adult wrong. Of course this would be four episodes instead of being wrapped up in forty minutes.
