My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.
Also, to answer a question a bunch of people have asked in email: because the Deep Space Nine and Voyager covers are, respectively, boring and boring plus ugly.
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…because the Deep Space Nine and Voyager covers are, respectively, boring and boring plus ugly.
Sorta like the shows themselves! HEY-O!
Enterprise novels?
Man, Bitsy, you could not be more wrong about Deep Space Nine.
DS9 has aged much better than Voyager. Voyager was, arguably, the last of the ‘episodic’ sci-fi shows; DS9 was one of the first of the new wave of arc-based shows. That’s a simplification, but in DS9 you can see narrative ideas and structures that would eventually become standard practice for modern space sci-fi (especially BSG, which, perhaps because of Moore, owes a great debt to DS9).
Seconding the motion that Inside Man is a good movie. Clive Owen has yet to disapoint me. I haven’t seen every film he’s made, but out of the ones I have they’ve all been good.
I thought that part of the theme of DS9 was technology was less reliable and user-friendly than TOS and TNG made it seem (holodecks aside), so things were often a lot less pretty than before.