Ooooh, I'll definitely have to check it out. I'd heard the expression before, but didn't know where it was from! I believe the series was shown on PBS a while back. I have a soft spot for dirty & realistic SiFi, and I'm a Trekkie, too (I have one of the original stamped-autographed photos of Leonard Nimoy from the first season of the very first series!)One of the reasons I like the first Alien film (the Ridley Scott one) is that it's quite clear that life was just as miserable in that future as it is today, with the same wretched military-industrial complex controlling everyone's lives.
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Date: 2010-02-26 04:27 pm (UTC)I believe the series was shown on PBS a while back. I have a soft spot for dirty & realistic SiFi, and I'm a Trekkie, too (I have one of the original stamped-autographed photos of Leonard Nimoy from the first season of the very first series!)One of the reasons I like the first Alien film (the Ridley Scott one) is that it's quite clear that life was just as miserable in that future as it is today, with the same wretched military-industrial complex controlling everyone's lives.