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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (11001)	6/9/1998 12:28:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Man, I useta eat Star Trek slowly with a spoon! It premiered when I was a preteen (read "kid"). I watched the reruns over&over&over deep into grad school. Then a ten-year drought while The Next Genitalia, Deep Sex Nine and Voyagina spun off onto our bigger and bigger screens. Oh. And is it eight now? movies gave us the full-face experience at the local cinepolis. Anyway, a month ago one of our independent stations ran a Trek thon. I stumbled across two episodes - the one where Kirk and this demented shrew swap bods, and the one with the blind babe who kept this most excellently ugly dude in a lunchbox. I noticed two things through newly old eyes. 1)Man, the effects were cheesy. 2) This was melodrama, space opera at its least subtle. They laid the topics, the characterization, the acting were laid on with a trowel. I guess that's why it was such bait for teenagers with no other life whatsoever. It was a heady blend of Big Issues and a larger-than-life emotional existence. The green slave girls were a bonus.