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I feel five or six seasons is about an ideal run for most TV shows. There are exceptions, sure, but I feel it's doubly true for quality cable dramas like Justified: You want them to go out on a high note.

Yeah but Buscemi is a guy and nobody ever gets hung up on how guys weigh.

That episode never gets old.

Good question!

I'm sure few Americans know Charlie Jade was shown. It had a brief largely unheralded run on Syfy.

I'm just pointing out that Auberjonois is a little older than a teenager, but this isn't significant because he is an alien so the actor's age is no clue to the character's age (doubly so because he's a changeling and his form is just one he's chosen to assume.)

…and that's why nobody singles Star Trek out as a franchise that does relationships well.

Babylon 5 was written by an atheist who really liked the idea of religion and was far too fond of the word 'Order' (almost every religious or quasi-religious grouping in Babylon 5 has one, apparently.)

But it's still better than Odo/Kira. Which is the criteria it is being judged against.

And the other issue with writing Voyager reviews at this point is, well, SF Debris exists. It's kind of hard to follow that act (not to mention there were excellent Voyager reviews Back In The Day, I think Jammer's stuff holds up really well.)

I remember liking "Virtuoso", at least more than most people, and also enjoying "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", but I do get what you're saying, the Doctor often became a parody of himself later in the series (his last episode, "Renaissance Man", was definitely this.)

I'd say Voyager is the most significant because it has three female characters who are all fairly prominent, and one of the show's major relationships is Janeway and Seven, which is important in a way no other Trek show had between two women.

To be fair, Bajorans were space Palestinians before they were space Jews. That's how Trek rolls: Oppressed people have a lot of leeway.

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Eh. Last time SyFy had an original show with Ron Moore it was … actually, it was Caprica, so let's go to the time before that, when it was Battlestar Galactica, which was one of the best sci-fi programs ever even in spite of its considerable flaws.

I'm trying to combine The Middle Man and Battlestar Galactica in my head now and it's just not working.

The thing is, co-productions with the US are better promoted than Canadian shows (this is something Simon Barry has said about his show Continuum - because it's not owned by NBC Universal like the Syfy shows, the ad budget is hella smaller) and are also on American TV sets in a timely fashion (Charlie Jade didn't show…

Andromeda Strain is one of exactly three Robert Wise sci-fi movies (The Day The Earth Stood Still and Star Trek: The Motion Picture are the other two) and I really like all three.

I feel like the only sci-fi stuff they could do with the Bajorans is social - imagining a different kind of society. While there are some hints of that, like the abolished caste system, or how Bajorans applaud, you're right, they're mostly just stand-ins for humanity (whereas, say, the original series managed to make…