Sci-Fi Fans?

[Zardoz]

Iolaus said;"The fact that you knew what I was talking about simply proves my point."

No, no, I was being a little sarcastic! I'll say this and then drop it; I was making a point about how successfull the Star Trek franchise has been! I'm 43, I grew up on Trek, So did my wife. I don't have any NC1701 bluepints, or my own Starfleet uniform or anything, but we are, and always will be, dedicated fans.

Yeah, the last couple movies sucked, and "Enterprise" was pretty dull, and I never really liked DS9, But Trek is still the 800 pound gorilla in Sci Fi TV! The small but rabid fan following of other shows over the years like Space 1999, Galactica, Babelon 5, :rolleyes: Lexx, Red Dwarf, Farscape or Firefly always say our show is better than Trek because........

But apparantly the Star Trek formula of comradeship and diversity succeeding in a hopefull, peacefull, future seems to be the one most of the viewing public likes, at least that's what the numbers say. And in show business those numbers mean a lot.

Lest it sound like I only like Trek, No, I've been a 'rabid fan' of plenty of other Sci Fi shows, but they all went away pretty fast. I fully expected to like Firefly, I liked Weadon's other shows a lot. But the characters never grabbed me, and since it was mostly character development and low on action, it failed to hold my interest. It also seemed to be heavily influanced by some old Anime shows like Trigun but that's OK, I just didn't care about it. I don't mind that others did, good for them! I really liked the short lived super hero show "Birds of Prey" but everyone else in America thought it was crap!

We now return to the disscussion of Robert Heinlein and Sci-Fi Cons!