Sci-Fi Roundup

While we’re talking about TV shows today, let’s note the new episdoes of sci-fi shows that will be debuting tonight:

Star Trek Enterprise:

"Observer Effect"
After Hoshi and Trip contract a deadly virus, two aliens possess the bodies of other crew members to observe humanity’s reaction to tragedy. NOTE: This is supposed to involve an alien race we met in The Original Series.

Incidentally, (SPOILERS):

[Enterprise writer/producer Manny] Coto also offered tidbits on the remaining episodes of the season: "In
the second half of the season, you can expect this: Stories that take
place on Andoria, a Klingon moon, Romulan outposts, Romulan Marauders,
Orion Privateers, Earth’s Moon, Mars, a 1701-class Federation starship
and more. And you’ll see a live Tholian… and a Gorn."


Coto emphasizes that whether the show returns for a fifth season remains to be seen.


"As to whether or not we’ll be back for Season 5, that’s always been up in the air. We’ll see what the future brings." [SOURCE.]

Stargate SG-1:

"Gemini", Episode #811.
When an enemy takes on the guise of one of the team, Carter’s emotions leave the planet susceptible to attack.
NOTE: Stargate SG-1 is not head-to-head with Enterprise, so you’ll have to TiVo, VCR, choose, or catch a re-run. I’d recommend Enterprise as your first-watch, then SG-1 later.

Stargate Atlantis:

"The Eye", Episode #111.
When the city is evacuated due to an approaching storm, the Genii launch and invasion.

Battlestar Galactica (new series):

"Bastille Day", Episode #103.
Apollo is held hostage on a prisoner ship by a group of convicts led by a freedom fighter convicted of terrorism. NOTE: The new Battlestar Galactica series has some very good aspects to it, but it’s got too much sexy stuff in it for me to recommend it. It’s also opposite Monk, so I recommend you watch Monk.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

8 thoughts on “Sci-Fi Roundup”

  1. I am extremely happy with Battlestar Galactica. I hope people give that show a chance. The four hour Pilot and first two episodes have been very intense. The writers have done an excellent job of setting the mood of a people on the run. Hopefully they can keep it up.

  3. I agree that some scenes of BSG are little to provocative, but it is a plot device. In time, it come out the intimacy that happens in most of the scenes you refer to is a BAD thing. Just keep watching. 😉 To be honest, I am much more concerned about the religious aspects of the show, where the good guys are pagans and the bad guys are monotheists (closer to deists from what I can tell). Again though, we’ll just have to wait and see how this plays out.
    On the Enterprise side, I am very happy with the way this season has been turning out. Manny Coto is doing a wonderful job. There’s been something in just about every episode from the Star Trek mythos that ties this show in with the others.

  4. I like the new BSG. I just hope that the sex thing turns out as you say. I also hope that Boomer is not a Cylon! I mean can you look at that face and see evil? ***sigh***

  6. They drop hints early in the episode that it is a very old, non-physical race that used to be corporeal.
    At the end of the show they announce explicitly who it is:
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    It’s the Organians, who in the time of TOS forged the Organian Peace Treaty between the Klingons and the Federation (later to be replaced just after Star Trek VI by the Khittomer Accords).
    In the original series episode, the Organians (deceptively) presented themselves as low-tech people who were uninterested in Klingon-Federation politics, later revealing that reason to be that they were non-corporeal and unable to be harmed by either group.
    They also prophesied the day when the two groups would be friends and then *imposed* the Organian Peace Treaty on them.

  7. Are you sure that the humans are the good guys and the bad guys are the Cylons?
    It may not be nearly so simple. There is a thread that the humans were very wrong to enslave their AIs. And that the new generation of Cylons -are- human. Just “not of a woman born.” That the Cylons have souls.
    I’ve read that BSG will have the humans have more than one religion, and that the ancient Greek gods are the “lords of COBOL” (which would explain that they aren’t around anymore, that is pretty slow code, and had a date limitation affecting y2k 😉
    This thesis is furthered by last night’s episode, but it is possible that not everyone has seen it so I shall remain silent on that for a day or two or until this thread comes up again.
    The SF Channel likes to push the envelope on sex, as it did in Farscape, Lex, and that cartoon that fortunately died so quickly, whatever it was called.
    Maybe -that- is why Crusade didn’t turn into a Sci-Fi series.

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