Tonight's Sci-Fi Listing

04/22/05 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Tongiht Sci-Fi listing:

Star Trek Enterprise: Part 1 of 2, this is the mirror universe episodes...

[KevinDavis]

From what I have heard this is going to be one of the best Enterprise Epidsodes from the pictures I have seen.

Note: I'm sorry if I don't post any Andromeda info. I find that show to be boring and I don't know if there are any fans of Andromeda on Free Republic...

[KevinDavis]

[AngryJawa]

It's dead, Jim - er, Kevin.

[thoughtomator]

Andromeda's first couple of episodes were cool, then it turned into yet another "Gilligan's Island in space" show... just like, say, Star Trek Enterprise.

[Dallas59]

"Fascinating...."

[dts32041]

I don't know if there are any KevinDavis fans on Free Republic.

[Imaverygooddriver]

Mirror universe? What is it about? Is it like that episode in the original Star Trek where Spock is evil with the goatee?

[KevinDavis]

Yep...

[The G Man]

Bah! It pales compared to the new Battlestar Gallactica. Then again, every SciFi ever made for TV pales compared to it.

[KevinDavis]

With the exception of Babylon 5 which I think it the best Sci - Fi show ever.

[Lee'sGhost]

"Then again, every SciFi ever made for TV pales compared to it."

Not quite sure I'd go that far, but it is the best thing on TV right now -- SciFi or otherwise.

[Imaverygooddriver]

My favorite Star Trek episode of all time is when they beam down to the planet and the crew gets sprayed by that plant which turns them into these pot/dope heads "Everything is beautiful man", then Spock gets sprayed and he is tormented by his logic then he loses his logic and gets into the girl and they just waste their lives away. That was so great, just a huge dig at the hippies and liberals. Then they come out of it by getting mad, "My God, all this time we have wasted in our lives"

[BibChr]

... Babylon 5 which I think it the best Sci - Fi show ever.

DING!

You are correct, sir.

Dan

[AnnAdoringFan]

yeah... I've been looking forward to this ep since I heard it was coming.
:-)

yes... I'm a geek. sue me.

[Lee'sGhost]

Just let me take this opportunity to repeat something I have said since the first episode of STE. What a totally lost opportunity. The producers -- and maybe the writers -- of this show should be shot. The potential for excellent SciFi was limitless, despite the casting of Scott Barfula.

The pretext was humans venturing into deep space for the first time. Each episode should have been about discovery and wonder and even fear of meeting new species. The crew of this Enterprise met new beings on a weekly basis with all the excitement of a 20-year bureaucrat coming to work yet again on another Monday. No wonder, no "gee whiz," nothing but, "oh, another alien. whoopie." The episode that came close to it was when the two crew members got stranded in a shuttle and almost died. One of the few episodes where the writer was allowed to make the story about the people and another stupid "cowboys and aliens" shoot 'em up. The only mystery to this series was how did they make Jolene Blalock's breasts defy gravity? TV will be a much bigger wasteland with her gone from it.

What a waste.

[fireforeffect]

B5. Now that was a good Science Fiction show.

Crusade could have been.

Star Trek, wagon train in Spaaaaaaceeeeeeee.

The various Star Treks (TNG, the station, Voyager, etc.) lived on the hype from the first series. People kept watching hoping they would get it right. Sometimes they did but most of the time it was too PC.

The producers/writers forgot that the other captains (vice Kirk and the rest of the Enterprise crew when promoted) in all the Star Trek movies were wimps (watch em and see what I mean) and cast those captains as the new leaders. Kirk looks good because he is willing to make a decision without referring to higher authority or considering how it will look on his next evaluation.

BG2 looks good. Do not have cable or satellite. One show is not worth the money and 2000 channels of crap. Bought the DVD of the opener, probably will buy the first season too.

[Lee'sGhost]

". . .and NOT another stupid "cowboys and aliens" shoot 'em up."

[Brett66]

BG is groundbreaking, I think they've set the bar for sci-fi for the next few years.

[KevinDavis]

The problem was the stupid temporal cold war and the Xindi arc. Had they gone this route, this would not be the last season.

[Lee'sGhost]

I agree that was bad, but it wasn't the only problem.