"I managed to avoid watching "Star Trek: The Next
Generation" for a year after the series started,
because I knew if I started, the soap-opera like
quality would be infectious and I did not want to
spend the emotional time such an ensuing addiction
to "escapist" Television would demand, but Al, a
former employee at
NASA, who was interested particularly in Asimov's
perspectives on robotics, said, "Check out Data".
I gave in and became glad for it. I had watched
the original show in the '60s and in countless
rerns in the seventies. Now I watched all the
episodes in their first run of the new show and
reviewed all in
rerun syndication several times, then went on to do
the same with "DS9" and "Voyager". So what? It
beats dependancy on drugs, alcohol, and fanatical
exploitive religion, or a chronic addiction to
collegiate and pro-sports that absorb over one
hundred billion dollars of our
money every year, while politicians are elected and
reelected for promising to reduce taxes that
support programs to help those among us who are not
necessarily able to help themselves, or other
programs designed to enlighten or expand the public
consiousness. While most
"Trekkies" seem to know what is wrong with a nation
run mostly by anglos going around the planet
telling mostly non-anglos how to run their lives.
Becoming a fan provided a beneficial way inwhich to
peacefully coexist with The World." --DUDLEY
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