response 1 of 37:

Oct 8 18:39 UTC 2000

no

response 5 of 37:

Oct 9 00:22 UTC 2000

It looked to me like it was produced in the early 80's.  It had that "Buck
Rogers" sort of look to it, and I was very surprised to learn that it was a
new series.  The aliens looked about as fake as a high school play, and showed
no significant creativity.  Acting was flat.  I think it's likely to be
cancelled before the first season is up.

response 7 of 37:

Oct 9 01:29 UTC 2000

So what channel is it on and when?

response 9 of 37:

Oct 9 01:33 UTC 2000

OH. I dont have cable so I guess I am SOL. That's ok. It is probably better
if I watch less tv. I am a tv addict

response 13 of 37:

Oct 9 03:40 UTC 2000

Really, the parallels to the Trek universe are pretty funny.
In place of the Federation, we have the System Commonwealth.
In place of the talking computer, we have a projected human image, the whole
    ship is supposed to be sentient.
In place of a Scottish engineer, we have an Irish engineer.
Kevin Sorbo is cut off from his civilization, much as the Voyager crew
is.
 
The show is from Tribune Entertainment, which I think is a guarantee
of it being a low-budget production.  
 
The blonde pilot of the salvage ship is cute.

There's one funny in-joke where the engineer of the salvage ship asks
Kevin Sorbo: "What do you think you are, a Greek god?"   :)

(Thanks for mentioning this, Twila, it was worth wasting an hour to see 
it.  If you think of it as "Hercules in Space" you won't be far wrong.)

response 15 of 37:

Oct 9 21:28 UTC 2000

I'm going to give it a few more episodes, myself. It looked a little dippy
in the costume/makeup department (except for the bug pilot), but I'll wait
to see how the aliens act. Was also disappointed with the 20th century Earth
slang of the engineer. It could be good, it could be bad, I'll await
developments. Of course, looks like the CURSE of the STar Trek  franchises
has hit Earth:Final Conflict... The third season pilot looked really really
bad, and I was unhappy with the plot twists. They've backed away from the
stuff that made it interesting and quirky in return for the status quo of
"resistance fighters" against "evil aliens". Crap.

response 17 of 37:

Oct 10 18:47 UTC 2000

Haven't seen it yet, but I looked it up.

I'll note for now that the name 'Dylan Hunt' was also used in a couple of
other Roddenbury movies, _Genesis II_ and _Planet Earth_, which he also had
intended to make a TV series of.

response 19 of 37:

Oct 10 20:23 UTC 2000

Hey.  I would like to stick up for B5.  I liked it, when it was about the
station, and how people got along.  I liked when Dilen (please forgive
spellings) changed her head so she was more human and had to deal with the
repercussions of it.  I liked when they got a store on the station, and the
little Sherridan bear.  But when I stopped watching the show is when they got
the ship.  The stupid f-ing ship.  Ruined the series, and it turned into a
good show about how people interacted into "lets run around the galexy and
shoot things".

I LOVED DS9.  But like B5, after Roddenberry died, they did the same old same
old.  Lets get the Defiant.  Lets run around the gallexy.  Who cares about
the station?  Who cares about relationships or using our brains.  Look, big
ship...GUNS...LASERS...OOoooo   Photon Canons...
My favorite episode was where Jake and Cisco were thrown into some kind of
engery thingy and couldn't exist in the same place at the same time anymore.
And so Jake grew up without his dad, and only saw him a couple of times, for
a little bit out of the day.  ANd he ends up being a sucessfull writer and
decides it's time for his dad now, he had his time to do what he needed to,
and ends up killing himself so his dad could be in the current plan of
existance.  It happens in the space of a few minutes, and they come out at
the same place as the beginning, but it was the most wonderfully writeen
piece.  I liked those!  What's wrong with heart, and dealing with people, and
working out PROBLEMS.  That's WHY he wanted DS9.  To break the mold of the
"shooting off into the wild yonder helping/fighting/messing up other
cultures".

I'm so sad to see people doing it again with another series of his.  And Kevin
Sorbo is an okay actor.  But come on.  It's also the stuff they are given to
work with (see Hurculese episode where they are in our time, he doesn't
understand, but they are the gods and characters playing the actors that are
in the show.  too cute)

response 21 of 37:

Oct 10 20:54 UTC 2000

Many people whose taste I respect admired B5 for me, but the two 
time I tried watching an episode, I clicked it off after ten minutes.
Just wasn't my thing, I guess.  ANDROMEDA's got plenty of stuff 
one can criticize it for -- I'm not expecting it to evolve into 
quality TV SF -- but it was paced well enough to be amusing.
 
Perhaps it appeals to my inner 12-year-old.

response 23 of 37:

Oct 10 23:57 UTC 2000

I loved Babylon 5. It's on the tv right now, in fact. I wasn't terribly fond
of DS9 after the war started (the plots just got waaay too convoluted, and
people were being out of character), but Voyager is Right Out. Ick.