I really wish it would just go away. I’m also pretty much done w/ Star Wars. And James Bond, though that’s only occasionally SF, so it really doesn’t fit here.

I know this is blasphemy, but I kinda wish someone would just put Trek to bed permanently. Or at least make it do something interesting like cross over with Doctor Who.

The opening credits of every episode say “It is the year 1987, and America launches the last if it’s deep-space probes,” right?

And despite them showing footage of a Saturn V launch, Buck is obviously flying a scaled-down Space Shuttle, right? (Actually, the same exact one from the “Message from Earth” episode of the original Galactica)

And then in the 2nd season, we have a flashback of sorts to right before the mission, when Buck is talking to his mom. She has misgivings about the mission. She talks about “the mission last year” where the spacecraft – evidently the same kind Buck is flying – “Exploded and killed all those people.”

To which Buck responds, “Oh, mom, the problem with the engine that caused that has been fixed, and it can’t happen again.”

So: Buck is talking about a shuttle explositon that killed the crew in 1986, involving an engine malfunction — SEVEN YEARS BEFORE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!