Here's a reminder that should make everyone cringe with aches and pains, realizing it really has been this long...

It was 40 years ago this year that we began hearing the famous phrase "...To boldly go where no man has gone before!"

Yes, the first season of Star Trek began showing in 1966, and lasted three seasons before being cancelled by NBC. Fortunately, syndication and several related series have punctuated the networks' silence from time to time...

One wonders what the next series might bring, if the powers-that-be will ever get their act together and actually produce one...

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Wow. It doesn't seem like a day over eternity.

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YOU are one *sick* puppy!

man i'm old... I remember sitting mezmerized every week watching the intrepid Capt. Kirk do his thing...

man...

It would help if they'd bother putting said imaginary show... ON MORE CHANNELS THAN JUST "UPN!!!" I mean, for those of us who *don't* have UPN available where we live, I wouldn't mind waiting a week or two after an episode airs for the "first" time, if I could watch on a channel that I actually get... instead of not getting it at all.

Maybe that was the problem... the Powers That Be (Austin and Nigel? ) *didn't* get it.


Cheers,

--Jay

Actually, he was the enterprising Capt. Kirk; the Intrepid's captain was...someone else...

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They tried that, with Deep Space Nine. We received it on the ABC affiliate out of Pensacola...typically after midnight...and even then they would pre-empt it for any one of a thousand unannounced reasons at the last minute, or push it back to an even less-godly hour of the post-midnight morning, or not bother to show it at all...

At least the UPN station kept it on a reasonable schedule, at a reasonable hour.

Seems to me the SciFi channel would be a better choice for any new first-run Star Trek series...

Speaking of which...

Is anyone here (really) following the new Battlestar Galactica series? Or does it seem to have bogged down at about the same point in the story line as did the first series? Remember the "starchild", where Starbuck was left behind on some planet with a Cylon he had to rebuild just for "company"?

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I tried, but I started drifting away last year, missing an episode here and there. I never even bothered this year. I like this cast and the storyline a LOT better this time, but I must not have the sci-fi gene.

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Bill Eichelberger
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In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc Cyber III

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With *two* Stargate shows, I do my best to keep up with the (ahem) recently revised original.

As far as the new Battlestar Galactica, it seems like there are some fairly compelling storylines (although you have to completely disassociate from the late 70's original), BUT... Since I operate a TV camera 5 days a week, I couldn't bear to watch an entire episode because the camera kept zooming unexpectedly *several times an episode.*

In other words, the new BSG's camera work made me... *jumpy.* (Colin Mochrie voice) "Augh! --Augh!"


Cheers,

--Jay

That's because you aren't "hip" and "happening".

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Bill Eichelberger
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http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

Or "edgy," either.

Although I *did* watch "The Village" today for an adult Sunday School class next week on "Film and Theology." ...Five years *after* the movie was released!

So, no, I'm apparently not "with it."

Come to think of it, that was true even way back in the 70's. So the *least* I can do is continue to "deliver."


Cheers,

--Jay