Gloredhel, I didn't say it wasn't fun, I just said it wasn't very good. :-)

Clinton, tell your geek to hide better! ;-) Yeah, some starbase action, but they always seemed to find new red-shirts from somewhere. My theory is that they're like the Star Wars stormtroopers - they're cloned, so losing a few doesn't matter too much, you can always grow some more.

The persistently-humanoid look is annoying, but I guess we'll need to wait until FX and synthespians are better (anyone want Jar Jar Binks as the next Enterprise crewman? thought not. ;-). And not just humanoid, but human-sized as well. I read one ST book where a couple of the major characters were non-human - one was a giant and the other was a panthery kind of thing. A Star Trek with that kind of hook would be more believable. I guess I'd just rather sit in the Star Wars cantina than in Ten-Forward...

Graham.