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To: NorthMountain
I puked my way through the first episode of TNG when it first aired. It was the last "Star Trek" anything I ever watched. Some people say it got better. I wouldn't know ...

I didn't really know who Patrick Stewart was at the time. I though he was a throw-away character. I kept waiting for the old bald guy to be killed off so the young, virile First Officer (Jonathon Frakes) take command. Who knew?

"Babylon 5: Our last, best hope for decent Science Fiction on TV." That and Stargate: SG1.

IMO, Farscape was a better show than either one of those.

47 posted on 02/23/2026 2:55:08 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
de gustibus ... Farscape was a bit too comic-book for me. Obviously, YMMV.

The real crime, IMO, was FOX's gross mishandling of Firefly.

50 posted on 02/23/2026 3:03:20 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Farscape was wild, unpredictable, crazy, and fun.
60 posted on 02/23/2026 7:16:16 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

I have a LOT of Farscape DVD’s on my shelf.

The thing about Farscape is that it was pure sci-fi without trying to be either political or “relevant”. People panned it because “Pilot” was a Henson puppet but it was good sci-fi. Yes, as a former Boeing employee (and Physics major) I could nitpick about some of the aerospace aspects of the earliest episodes, but once you got into season 2 those issues were no longer relevant.

It was a good show and deserved better.


68 posted on 02/24/2026 3:26:26 AM PST by Windcatcher
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