All Good Things... sorrow for the Trekkies.

I have never been a huge Star Trek kinda guy. I'm all about Star Wars, but never became very obsessed about Star Trek. The only Star Trek object I have in my entire collection of geekdom is a Borg action figure. My favorite Star Trek movies aren't from the series, but are documentaries about the fans ("Trekkies" and "Trekkies II"). The only Trek show I got halfway into was "Star Trek: Next Generation" which premired over a decade ago.

Now, I've seen many of the Star Trek actors at conventions including James "Scotty" Doohan, a very tired John DeLanci, the guy who played the computer generated doctor on "Voyager", the Asian guy on "Voyager", the guy who played Chekov from the original series (see, I can't even remember the actual names of a lot of these actors) and of course Jerri Lynn Ryan (now her name, I remember!!! Way hotter in person than on TV!). While at these Q&A sesions, I saw many a Trekie dressed in the garb of the Federation of Planets or as Klingons or Romulans or those Orion slave girls.

I always found these people, good natured, friendly and passionate about thier love of all things Trek. Sure, the world shunned them for being who they are, but I could always relate to that being a huge gamer and Star Wars fanatic. That's whay I feel thier pain this week.

The last of the planned Star Trek series, "Enterprise" hits its final episode tonight, leaving the Trek TV franchise in complete and utter limbo. Where will these people boldy go to get their Sci-Fi jones going? Sure they could delight in the upcoming Star Wars TV series coming out in about 2 to 3 years. But that's quite a wait and it's not even their franchise (although story and quality-wise one million times better)!

I remember when "Farscape" was carved off of the Sci-Fi channel's schedule. I was dumbfounded and bewildered and at 8pm on Friday nights... quite lost. I also just realized that eh "Andomeda" TV series is coming to an end this month. And that show had a lot of babebage!

I can't even imagine the pain a lot of Trekkies and Andromeda fans will be going through in the coming months! All I can say is, good luck to you. May you find peace through your loss, strength through your pain and another year's free rent in your parents' basement.

Ok, that was mean and uncalled for and calling the kettle black, and for that I appologize (actually, I don't live in my parents' basement. But give me a year or two and how cruddie my luck is and I'll see what I can do.)

But seriously folks, if you're a Trekkie or Andromada fan out there reading this, be strong and have hope, 'cause there's always a new franchise on the horizon!

Less than a week 'til Ep.III, Motha Trucka!!!!

Zangz