I presume when "Star Trek" is mentioned, folks are referring to the "The Original Series." In "The Next Generation," you had a pretty good bunch of actors, led of by Patrick Stewart, a seasoned Shakespearean actor with some fairly heavy-duty credits on his resumé. And as far as scripts were concerned, they did have a few weak shows, but there were also a few that ranked right up there with the best of science fiction.

And I've been reading science fiction since I was six-years-old, and I'm damn picky.

When I first saw it, I thought "The Red Green Show" was about the dumbest thing I'd ever seen on television. Out of horrified fascination, I watched a few more shows, and now I'm kind of hooked on the stupid thing. I think my favorite character is Ed Frid, the nervous animal-control officer. Or Bonnie, Harold's look-alike girl friend, one of the very few women who ever appear on the show (and she only appeared three or four times). My wife likes Harold. Thinks he's kinda cute.

Quando omni flunkus moritati.

Don Firth