Star Trek

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I thought the last two episodes of Enterprise were very good. (That's "Terra Nova" and "The Andorian Incident".) TN had some major science flaws, but the storytelling was good and I was able to see past them. I hope these two are indicators of what is to come.

I figured out part of why Dani has such disdain for the modern Trek shows. (I don't know what he thought about the original series, or if he even watched it.) He thinks Star Trek is science fiction. I think it fails miserably as SF but that it is good *fantasy*. In this case the magical elements just happen to have names like "dilithium" and "anti-matter" and "phase shift", that's all.

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Totally agree with your ST assessment. As Space Opera or Fantasy goes, it's awesome. It's just if you try to think of it as pure SF, you'll be annoyed.

Kind of how if you think of Chicago Style Pizza as "thick bread with stuff" and not as "Pizza" you're less disappointed with it. It's all perception.