Many people have stated what they feel is wrong with this series. I think I just might have the answer: the show has no sense of the fantastic. Remember Kirk and the doomsday machine? Picard meeting himself from 6 hours in the future? The Enterprise meeting a giant space amoeba? The idea now seems to be 'if it isn't within current scientific journals we don't do it'. Berman must accept the blame for this. ST:TNG was a super show, and DS9 started out that way. As soon as Roddenberry was gone - poof! Berman decided to turn DS9 into a space war series, and to have the starship Voyager get it's butt kicked every week. This is Star Trek - we need heroes to boldly go 'out there'. This was the idea for 'Enterprise'...then, guess what? The Xindi - and ANOTHER space war! Look, when I want that I'll pop in my 'Battlestar Galactica' dvds. Make 'Star Trek' 'Star Trek' again - you have a great cast...now give them great 'Star Trek' stories!
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The Private Eyes
(1980)
A Personal Favorite
22 July 2003
I've loved this film from the moment I saw it as a kid. To this day Tim Conway's rambling "I think that someone doesn't want anyone to know that there may be someone here that might be someone that's a killer" line still gets me laughing! Highly recommended to anyone in search of a fun (and funny) film!
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty
(1975–1976)
A lost slice of my youth!
21 December 2002
This series is a lost slice of my youth. It's been so long since I've seen it, I thought only my sister and I were the only people in the world who HAVE seen it. As a kid, I never missed 'Waldo Kitty' - in fact up until now I had no idea there were only 13 episodes. For the many who never saw it each episode started out in live-action, usually with our hero cat being put into a seemingly inescapable situation by the local dog. He would then imaging (via voice-over) that he was a hero of some sort who would easily deal with his situation. It would then go into a cartoon where Waldo was that imagined character. I remember bits and pieces of the shows, but one stands out. It was a clever 'Star Trek' parody. To this day I still smile when I recall the 'Tunnel Of Glove' sequence! It's a shame there are so few episodes - this makes it unlikely that it will ever be issued on video, and less likely it will be rerun. But it will always hold a place in my heart! Long live Waldo Kitty!
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