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Message: <blockquote data-quote="driver8" data-source="post: 2139201" data-attributes="member: 17559">To why ST is dead or at least comatose look no further than the redux fo Battlestar Galactica or the recent success of Stargate SG-1.Both series have had good stories, dramatic tension, and interesting characterizations. SG-1 in its prime just had great action pieces that drew on its own internal mythologies. BG despite my initial suspicion toward it does what good Sci-Fi does-it explores what we are as humans-our jealousies, pettiness, fears, as well as our nobility and self sacrifice.ST has just become ossified.The characters on it are recognizable "types" seen in other ST series. Episodes are formulaic and  predicitible, they focus on a particular character and spotlight him..or they are paint by numbers adventures with little in the way of dramatic tension or reason to invest interest into them.It has been getting better, but I had hoped that we would have gotten back to the "Horatio Hornblower" feel of TOS, then with trying to keep the technocratic goody too shoes vibe that the series had painted itself into after TNG.</blockquote>