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I'm eagerly awaiting the start of the new season,
but it seems it won't start till October :S
It's the premiere of Season 4 and already I've forgotten to watch. Usually it takes me a month to forget that B&B have a Star Trek show on.
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This Week's Star Trek Complaint
In the correct galactic time-line this item was to run in a 2006 column announcing the new Tuesday Morning Quarterback interactive 3-D cheerleader lingerie calendar sponsored by Quizno's. But sinister aliens from the future traveled backward in time to alter history, and now this item is running this week!
In the 79 original Captain Kirk episodes of Star Trek, there were four episodes that involved time-travel -- scriptwriters steered clear of time travel owing to the very high absurdity quotient, since if you can alter time, nothing would ever make any sense. In contrast the latest serial, Star Trek Enterprise, feels almost entirely time-travel. Star Trek Enterprise just hit its 79th episode, and seemingly half had time-travel as their main plot or subplot. First the sinister Suliban are trying to destroy Earth by using information being sent backward in time from the far future. Then the sinister Xindi are trying to destroy Earth by using technology being sent backward in time from the far future. The Suliban and Xindi aren't single episodes but recurring "story arcs," showing up in episode after episode about time travel. Once, Captain Archer ends up in the 31st century and sees the entire Earth a smoking ruins owing to some mistake he made in the 22nd century. Constantly, a Federation officer from the far future shows up and warns Archer the fate of the galaxy depends in Enterprise restoring the "correct" time line. Other episodes involve time-travel that occurs for other reasons, or even by accident.
Now the new season of Star Trek Enterprise has kicked off, and the ship has traveled backward in time to the 1940s, where Germany has won World War II via the assistance of sinister aliens. The Federation guy from the 31st century shows up yet again and warns Captain Archer that once again if Enterprise does not restore the correct time-line, the galaxy is doomed.
TMQ understands why time-travel plots are attractive to scriptwriters -- exactly because nothing needs to make any sense! But if the cosmic timeline is so fragile that one small spaceship from a backwater world can, in a short period, cause several complete alterations of the entire history of the galaxy, why would Enterprise be the only force changing time? Wouldn't all kinds of time travelers be altering history constantly all around us? Well, back to the item I planned to write on four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Fran Tarkenton.
OK, I was wondering why anything related to Star Trek (especially Enterprise) was on an NFL web page at all, then I got to the last sentence...