Saturday, October 2, 2010

Star Trek: The Next Generzzzzzzz



So you're probably familiar with this piece of garbage.
It's the ONLY show that I dislike yet I continue to watch anyway because it stirs good memories from my teenage years when I watched its repeats (canceled in the early '90s-- watched in the mid '90s) almost daily.
But in those days I wasn't quite old or sophisticated enough to recognize unbelievably shitty writing.
Today I watched an episode that is titled "Child of the Galaxy" in which a huge alien creature that lives in the vacuum of space gives birth. But the Star Trek crew kills the mother accidentally. We are left to watch as painfully dated '80s graphics show a "baby alien" wander around the outside of the ship then attach itself to the ship......
Yeah, it's fascinating, stimulating stuff.... to a moron.
When the ship's engineers are asked to provide a solution to the problem, this gem is offered:
"If the baby is nursing perhaps what we need is to find a way to sour the milk."
I turned off the TV.
If you want to watch the episode in its entirety-- as a sleep aid or something-- here you go:
The Bane of Gene Rodenberry's Existence

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