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  Voyager Episode 2/26/96

   • j********o@***.com
     01/03/1997 00:00:000 UTC

     This was a pretty good episode ("Rise"). A proper SF story, like old
     Trek: crew members get stuck with a bunch of NPCs in an unusual and
     exciting set and intrigue follows. Old Trek would have managed more
     intrigue and character development, but still pretty good. Something Old
     Trek and Dr. Who shared was an understanding of the value of a neat set
     and setting: a fun game of "spaceship" is the result. There should have
     been a fight on the undercarrage of the thingy, and, in contrast with
     Old Trek, that silly ("wrinkled-forehead") make-up gets in the way of
     presenting characters I care about.

     I liked that Milennium with the identical blonde babes (plus the
     omnipresent Brad Dourif (Oscar winner, if memory serves. "Somewhere...
     beyond the sea...") and Dr. Simon Van....G...Gelder!) They should do
     more episodes like that, with a real Milennial element, instead of
     merely "serial killer of the week."

     Gorno

     "Her world came crashing down,

     And all that it contained..."

     "Thoughts from above fall on the people down below;

     People in this world, they've got no place to go.

     Thoughts from above fall on the people down below;

     People in this world, they have no place to go."

       • j********o@***.com
         04/03/1997 00:00:000 UTC

         The latest two DS9 episodes have been OK, too.

         Gorno