9. And Other Sci-Fi Shows
Some nerds have to hate on one thing to justify their passion for something else. And if the internet has proved anything, some of you can get pretty darn crazy about it. It's okay to like more than one bit of sci-fi at a time - and the 90's gave us a lot of good sci-fi shows. As good as Deep Space Nine was, other TV shows did some things better. The X-Files was genuinely tense in a way TV usually couldn't accomplish. Thanks to The Jim Henson Company, Farscape left every other sci-fi show in the dust from a technical standpoint. Stargate SG-1 found a way to provide continuity and accessibility with its likeable characters and almost complete lack of technobabble (or Richard Dean Anderson just made fun of it). And then, of course, there's Babylon 5... A cloud still lingers over whether Paramount plagiarized J. Michael Straczynski's concept for Babylon 5. The similarities are glaring - the serialized story, a space station that becomes humanity's last hope, a galactic war due to a new alien threat, and the Centauri's oppression of the Narn people. I'll keep my opinions to myself, but there's someone on the internet right now making their opinion known. Some nerds are still unwilling to give one of these shows a chance, due to their undying passion for the other. They're both good shows. Go enjoy them. Most sci-fi fans only had time to follow a few of these shows, what with real life and everything. Deep Space didn't always make the cut.
Jeremy Wickett
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Jeremy Wickett was raised from an early age in one of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma's classier opium dens. A graduate of The University of Oklahoma, he now resides in Phoenix, Arizona - where the desert heat is oppressive enough to make him hallucinate that he's a character in Star Wars.
And of course he can speak Bocce - it's like a second language to him.
His so-called musings can be found here: http://geekemporium.blogspot.com/
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