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...that everyone wants my money. Especially people I owe money, too. What's up with that? Don't they know I don't actually want to give them any of my money. Sure, they're doctors and they kept me alive with medicine. Oh, and the gas company providing gas...sheesh. Electricity...same thing. Every month they just keep coming back and every month I find myself working to pay them. Why can't we all live in Star Trek world where people do things for the good of humanity? You know, where everyone talks in full complete sentences. Everyone has a great idea and knows how to execute it. Everyone cares. They really, really care. You see I've been watching Star Trek:Voyager pretty much every day now. Highly considered the worst of the Treks. I'm beginning to find out why. Here's a crew of people that are stuck in the middle of space 75,000 light years away from Earth. Yet, they keep their cool and all stick together. Not a word of mutiny. Not a word of "Hey, since we're out here with no restrictions...let's party!" Its keep doing your job, keep happy and no complaining. Is it possible to believe that they think we'll scrub the humanity right out of our bones in the future? All those frail human traits that make us human. In one episode Janeway calls coffee "a vice". Seriously? 400 years from now coffee is a vice? The way we're evolving now in 400 years you turn on your faucet and a Starbucks latte will pour out. "How was your mocha shower?" "Ah, lovely..."

There are other reasons to hate this show. There is some dialogue in there that every script teacher tells you not to do on the first day. "Hey push that button!" "Pushing button." "Let's go for a walk and have a conversation, shall we?" "Yes, we shall." "Tell me your thoughts." or "I noticed you weren't feeling happy about this..." and other explanatory dialogue that is cringworthy. Then they didn't have enough money in some episodes for special effects. So when battles happened they would rock back and forth and throw in some sound effects. Then there is more fake foreheads in this one than any other. But what really bothers me more than anything else is that absolute lack of humanity. Everyone always does the right thing. Its white-washed and generic. Its so hard to watch a show like that now that goes out of its way to show how wonderful we've become. How angelic we can be. How just plain boring. No one gets drunk. No one has sex but they do show a woman having a baby...so we'll just assume. No arguing unless its about something functional. No anger outbursts from anyone who might be slightly upset that they'll never see their family again or, I don't know, a sunrise. A tree. A dog. Where is the hate and anger? The loneliness and disruption of basic human emotion? The show lasted seven seasons just on sheer Trek love. Trek fans will truly watch anything with Star Trek in the title. That includes me. If it was called, "Star Trek: Rolling in Poo." I would watch it. Probably for three seasons, at least.

It just bothers me...but....oh wait, Voyager is on, I gotta go.

(I just can't stop watching this slow motion trainwreck.)