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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Ah but we have to be passionate about one thing in life. I just happened to pick Star Trek.
Oh and Beer, music and .............
I prefer a nice Stout or Porter on a brisk fall day. Of course, the Sam Addams radio commercials remind me of FDR style fire-side chats, and since Sams is something of a staple thats decent and easy to find everywhere (around here, anyhow) and as such is easily identifyable in the light of the FDR analogy.
As for startrek, i prefer the Cisko - Woof - Martok trio when they were are all about kicking *** and taking names. throw in a sprinkling of Dax, and a dash of ferangi humor, and you have your self a very good season of trek. of course, you have to reflect back on Kirk and crew in a warm, nostolgic light and view the shows as entertainment, not as serious SF: "Brain, Brain! What is Brain?!"
I sort of resent TNG, because even though everyone watched it and liked it at the time, it obviously was very silly and most people only liked it because a 25 year gap in televised science fiction forced them to like anything trekish that poped up on the idiot box.
now, with the wider variety of programming, and the higher availability of recorded movies both via DVD and cable/satilite services, i feel less confined and less 'forced' to enjoy trek, and i feel very comfortable disliking both voyager and the new seriese. and a solid 50% of DS9. and in retrospect, a solid 60% of TNG.
in comparison, i have strongly disliked about 10% of Space: Above and Beyond, 5% of Bab5, and out of the 20 or so episodes that i have seen, 0% of Farscape. thus, it is safe to say that paramount is loosing my interest with trek. I even like Andromeda better than the Lastest trek series, and thats bad.