October 5, 2009
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So, I’ve heard nothing at all good about the newest outing into the Stargate ‘verse (Stargate Universe / SGU) and feel little motivation to check it out myself (though I’ll probably sit though at least one episode just for Lou Diamond Phillips) but the continuing angst and hair rending about it in the fan-sphere makes me laugh. You know why?
Star Trek, baby. Specifically, Trek back in the 80′s. (yes, I’m something of a bitter old fan)
I don’t doubt that SGU is of the suck, but we’ve had (depending on how you look at it) 12-15 years of good programming (Atlantis lost me half way though). Star Trek gave us 3 seasons of TOS, one mediocre movie, one very good movie, two movies of debatable quality, a spinoff series that is not aging well at all, and then we had ST5. You know, the “what does god need with a spaceship one”. The “bad Vulcan who has a beard and laughs and also happens to be Spock’s half brother” one. The “really, it makes the one with the whales look good” one. Srsrly, you think one shit-tastic series in over a decade is pain? You don’t know pain.
This is also, BTW, why I was quite numb to every bit of trek-silliness from 1989 until the Reboot. Once you’ve hit the nadir, nothing looks that bad. Not even Enterprise.