On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Bruce Palmer wrote:

JNICHOLS spewed out:
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I loved the theme music to "Enterprise", but cannot stand the series
anymore. The last episode I saw was the one where the big busted vulcan
chick was trying to hide a disease ...

That's not right. They've tied Vulcan mind melding into homosexuality? Not
right at all. Brannon and Braga (and Piller to some extent) have screwed Star
Trek big time and Paramount doesn't care as long as they can sell it to
advertisers, er, uh, I mean "networks". Rodenberry is dizzy by now.

Anyway, there was a similar ep of DS9 that made me stop watching it. There was
this chick in a wheelchair who visited the station. She was an alien from a
world where there was very little gravity compared to earth. She needed this
chair to help her get around in 1g environments. She had all kinds of
difficulty managing daily life on the station, and developed quite the attitude
against the "normal" people on the station. It was ridiculous so many levels --
they couldn't adjust the artificial gravity for her? ****, if you can control
gravitons with ease as all the ST series have been able to do, this would be a
no-brainer. But that's a Trekker sort of nit to pick.

This would be a vaild complaint of sorts except that you're forgetting
that they did adjust the station gravity for her in the quarters she was
using. And adjusting the entire station's gravity downward would just
simply be a big headache for everyone else.

It was a thinly-disguised analog to people with disabilities here,
today, on earth, replete with a huge "message". I've forced myself to
purge some of the details from memory, but it was sickening. She didn't
have a "handicap" per se, but she sure acted like it and people treated
her like she had one. It was awful. I didn't watch DS9 after that. I
tried to get into Enterprise. I even thought it was pretty good the
first season. For some reason I didn't watch season 2+.

You quit watching DS9 just because of that ONE episode!? Isn't that just
atiny bit over-reactionary? Did you stop watching TOS because of silly
episodes like "Miri", and "The Omega Glory"?

Because of that you missed on the whole Dominion War series of story arcs.
You fool.
-Mike