After all these years...

I finally managed to catch the first ever episode of Star Trek Voyager on Virgin re-runs. Okay, okay, so it wasn't necessarily worth the wait in terms of science fictional goody-goodness. I mean, since then there's been Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, New Who and Firefly... dammit there's even been Buffy the Vampire Slayer though that's not in quite the same genre, but on a cool August Monday evening Voyager 1.1 was certainly better than a smack in the nose with a wet kipper.

Then immediately following it was an episode from somewhere in the middle of season two of Enterprise. Oh dear. More ploddy ploddingness. What ever made the Roddenberry empire think that prequels were a good idea? Oh wait a minute... Having had Enterprise die after struggling on for four seasons they're doing a movie prequel to The Original Series. Oh yeah, right. This is going to ge good...

Are there any more Trek fans out there holding their collective breaths?

They had a great opportunity after 'Insurrection' to explore the darker side of the Federation, but... possibly a road Uncle Gene would have disapproved of.

After all these years...

I finally managed to catch the first ever episode of Star Trek Voyager on Virgin re-runs. Okay, okay, so it wasn't necessarily worth the wait in terms of science fictional goody-goodness. I mean, since then there's been Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, New Who and Firefly... dammit there's even been Buffy the Vampire Slayer though that's not in quite the same genre, but on a cool August Monday evening Voyager 1.1 was certainly better than a smack in the nose with a wet kipper.

Then immediately following it was an episode from somewhere in the middle of season two of Enterprise. Oh dear. More ploddy ploddingness. What ever made the Roddenberry empire think that prequels were a good idea? Oh wait a minute... Having had Enterprise die after struggling on for four seasons they're doing a movie prequel to The Original Series. Oh yeah, right. This is going to ge good...

Are there any more Trek fans out there holding their collective breaths?

They had a great opportunity after 'Insurrection' to explore the darker side of the Federation, but... possibly a road Uncle Gene would have disapproved of.