Sore Eyes

By the way, if you find those codes, pass them on, willya? So long as they merely alter the fabric of the universe, and don't cross the line of game/human illegality.

I saw the Jeffries story elsewhere, and blogged it, but as someone who cherishes watching original Star Trek at age 7, and pleading to stay up late enough to go upstairs to my uncle, at age 8, to see the late night color broadcast, in 1967, on their (expensive, rare) color tv, at the late hour of 10 o'clock, which only was positively answered from time to time by my bipolar wonky dad, I am sad.

Even then I had read far and enough, hundreds of paperbacks, to know what was wrong with Star Trek as science fiction, but as the first explication in a series, on US tv, of a serious sf space travel show (don't mention Lost in Space, shudder), I fell in love at that early age, no matter the many flaws.

Many Brits feel the same way about Dr. Who, for the same reasons, I gather.

Yes, Dr Who certainly made a strong impression on those of us who are now in our thirties or forties, most of whom will have strong ideas about who the best Doctor was.

(For what it's worth, for my money Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker are tied for first place. I was too young to catch William Hartnell's version of the Doctor, and although I have vague memories of Patrick Troughton's run on the show his Doctor didn't make a serious impression on me - though the Yeti and the Cybermen certainly did! Once Peter Davison inherited the role I started to lose interest, and Colin Baker lost me completely.)

No doubt people a decade or so younger than me would have similarly strong views about the merits of Battlestar Galactica. Which is why Edward James Olmos recently advised them to steer clear of the forthcoming miniseries.