Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Jan 2009 14:26 UTC
The past week wasn't as packed with events and shows as the previous one, but luckily for us, that didn't mean there wasn't enough to report on. This week focussed on netbooks, Steve Jobs' health, and KDE/Qt. This week's My Take is a shameless plug for one of the best television shows we've seen in a while.
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I hate that Star Trek has become virtually synonymous with SciFi -- while OK for a TV series the stories themselves are a joke, embracing just about every cliche in the book, its vision of humanity is completely hollow -- we're perfect or at least close to it, Well, the only way we're going to come close to perfection is if we stop being human.
There are exceptions of course, I forget its name but I remember an episode where Picard was sent comatose and lived out his life, very very fondly. I do like DS9.
The unforgivable thing though is the stigma it's attached to Sci-Fi. People roll their eyes to things like "2001: A Space Odyssey" or to a far lesser extent BSG (until seeing them, assuming they ever do). It's easy to do this if you've only watched some TOS or the early seasons of TNG.
They'll never bother to read any of the greats.