[wideawake]

Man, I hate Star Trek and that commie Roddenberry.

[Semper Paratus]

I had high hopes for the last series "Enterprise" that it would return to swashbuckling style of Capt. Kirk but the first episode I saw had an alien "impregnate" a male crew member.

BYE!

[MadIvan]

Star Wars is infinitely superior. At least no character of that series is living in some pseudo-communist happyland where everything has been made perfect forever, apart from some nasty aliens.

Regards, Ivan

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Between hundred of episodes, novels, comic books, video games, role-playing games, conventions, cartoons, and movies, Star Trek has achieved cultural immortality.

The cartoon is far too often forgotten!

[Vaquero]

Enterprise??

Best Star Trek Ever!

I will be looking for the next reincarnation, but this series was not the PC, socialist society of The Next Generation. It was a kick ass, go after the bad guy even if you had to bend your moral code to do it series. Last Season was a perfect season....this season is a close runner up.

[ThinkPlease]

I'd say at this point, the shining moment of Enterprise was the Mirror Mirror two parter that was on a few weeks ago. Sad that of 4 seasons they could only come up with two good episodes.

[Alkhin]

Dungeons and Dragons? For Satanists. Tolkien? For Folklore Studies majors who looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy and homely girls who liked unicorns.

THAT IS SO TRUE! ROFL!!!!!!!!!!! I was the Tolkien-geek.

[raivyn]

I have loved star trek since I was like 6! Sad to see the run ending after all these years...

Before I die, I will collect ALL of the movies and EVERY episode ever made (of all series)!

[Brian Mosely]

Trek is dead...give me back Firefly...or speed up the release date for the movie Serenity...

[tutstar]

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[Psycho_Bunny]

Yes, Orson Scott Card, it was inferior science fiction, but so what?

I found Cards slam on Star Trek amusing to the extent that, although style-wise Card is an excellent writer, "Ender's Game" bored me to tears.

[Brett66]

I'm no Trek geek! Even though I'm watching the old series on the sci-fi channel as I write this and I create Trek ships with using Lightwave 3d:

[Professional Engineer]

Care to guess where I found this? Heh heh heh

Final Frontier Astronauts Land on Star Trek	05.13.05
NASA Astronauts Mike Fincke and Terry Virts recently suited up for a voyage in "space" without ever leaving Earth. In fact, their most recent space expedition was in Hollywood. Instead of a countdown, their launch began on "lights, camera, and action!" While on vacation, the real-life space explorers traded in their spacesuits for make-believe future space garb as the two made a guest appearance on the upcoming season finale of the science fiction television series "Star Trek: Enterprise." Image above: Astronaut Terry Virts, left, Actor Scott Bakula and Astronaut Mike Fincke, right, beam on the set of Star Trek's final Enterprise voyage. Credit: NASA Fincke, who has a speaking role on the show, and Virts can be caught in the act on the series' final episode, "These are the Voyages," which airs Friday, 9 p.m. EST on UPN. Scott Bakula, whose character on the show – Captain Archer – commands the Enterprise starship, had a chance to chat long-distance with Fincke, Expedition 9 flight engineer, while in orbit last year. Fincke viewed several episodes of the show while flying more than 200 miles above Earth during his stay on the Station. Bakula also participated in an on the Shuttle's Return to Flight. With both feet back on the ground, Fincke and Virts were given an opportunity to perform among actors who take on their roles as space explorers on the screen. The astronauts play engineers of the 22nd century for the day, performing maintenance in an engine room aboard Enterprise NX-01. "It was neat to see the magic of Hollywood make something cardboard and plastic look real," Fincke said. "I've spent my whole career learning switches and buttons. On the set, none of the switches or buttons does anything." "This was my first time on a prime time TV show, and after seeing how talented the actors are, I think I will keep my day job," Virts said. Fincke and Virts said, however, that science fiction like "Star Trek" and other tales of deep space travel captured their interest as children and influenced their careers. "As a kid, I became interested in shows like the original Star Trek series and the first Star Trek feature movies," Virts said. "They definitely had an impact in motivating me to a career with NASA." For decades, space has been a place of fantasy and reality. Both are tied by a common thread: the desire to explore uncharted territory. "There's always been a link between science fiction and science fact," Fincke said. "Science fiction, in general, has inspired not just Astronauts but all humans by giving form to our dreams to explore," Although some science fiction may seem out of this world, fiction has at times foretold the future, including the ingenuity and drama of space exploration. Fincke, who lived in space for six months aboard the International Space Station last year, experienced firsthand science and technology at work in space. During the mission, his schedule was full of scientific studies, including experiments in life and material sciences. While in space, Fincke led research aimed to learn more on how humans react in space, the effects of long-term weightlessness and how to counter those effects. Fincke and ISS Commander Gennady Padalka took part in three spacewalks to repair the Station and ready it for future construction. Fincke also photographed from space an alphabet of hurricanes that stormed Earth’s oceans. Today, the space frontier is expanding, and like the setting of "Star Trek: Enterprise," the nation's Vision for Space Exploration is at the brink of the early pioneering days of deep space exploration. "It was interesting and fun to get a glimpse of how it's done in Hollywood, but there's nothing like the real thing," Fincke said. Amiko Nevills NASA's Johnson Space Center

[Vic3O3]

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[KevinDavis]

At least in July, SG1, Atlantis, and Battlestar is coming back!!!!

[DM1]

[DM1]

[Soaring Feather]

[Pablo64]

Another good thing about us "old Trekkies" is that we can laugh at ourselves. As I was reading this I started to sing (to myself) a few choice lines from that song that used to get played on Dr. Demento, "Star Trekkin'":

"Star Trekkin' across the universe. Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!"

We take the good with the bad, but in the end, we are, unashamedly, Trekkies.

[bvw]

"Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition."

With one exception -- the Vulcan religion. Live long and Prosper!