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From: booter@well.UUCP
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Subject: Start Dreck: The Random Generation
Message-ID: <4107@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 23:41:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.4107
Posted: Thu Oct  1 23:41:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 01:39:58 EDT
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Keywords: droids, kids, stolen plots


AACK OOP! Roddenberry is back and dorkier than ever!

I mean really, a fifteen year old boy and a @#*&^ robot. Yeah, right.
"Danger! Danger! Will Robinson, Aliens approaching!"

And then there is the First Officer, Mr. Boring. Large, humorless
with a puttylike face and a drone that would make Jack Webb yawn.
Like his girlfriend the Counselor. The beta-nerd? 

"Pain! Pain! Sorrow! I only have two pairs of shoes!" How much did
her BMW-dealer husband pay off Roddenberry to get this excruciatingly
untalented person on The Lost Generation.

Oh, yeah, the robot. Android. Uh huh. Just an excuse for a homely
actor who likes to jump around. 

And those JELLYFISH!??? Give me a fucking BREAK. I saw better special
effects washed up on shore at Montauk Point. Holding hands no less.
AWWWWW. ACK OPP BARF!

Children on a starship. I won't even comment on the Cosby Family Goes
to Outer Space. I can just see the plot development. Ratings sag, 
knock up the Security Officer. Awww. Cute baby scene.

And tell LaVar Burton I want my air filter back! It does more good
in my car than it does on his face. Oh, yeah, the shoulder pads
on the brawny actor who plays the Klingon. Can you say, "Send
coals to Newcastle"? "Refrigerator" Perry at the helm.

Of course, the PLOT was lovely. After the Tholian Web is tossed about the
ship, Trelaine appears on the bridge speaking Hollywood Chaucerian, 
and dragging them to the Renaissance Fair. (My comment was, "EW!
You mean those fat pale dweebs from Creation Con live and the rest
of us CROAK?!") Oh, yeah, then the Companion comes back to get her
mate from an old set from the episode where Capn Kirk had to stalk
the lizard captain.

Next week, they are going to repeat the episode where a bacteria invades
a colony on a frozen planet and makes everyone act out (remember Sulu
fencing without his shirt on.....Ahem! I digress) A reverse Miri episode
I assume where the kids *don't* get sick this time.

I say, fire Roddenberry (masturbation on syndicated TV, really!),
fire the BetaNerd, the boring Hulk, The 'droid (or at least let
Gepetto turn him into a man so he can get a little color there),
the 15 year old genius and replace them with what was really intended,
a Vulcan. Give poor Capn Picard some hair and keep the children off
the bridge!

(It wasn't a total waste, the scene with McCoy was well done)

Das Booter - Kitten with a whip