WHAT!?! The most missed series wasn't "Remington Steele?" Why that makes me angry.

Clearly Ace must have been one of the poll respondants.

The older I get, the less I like Star Trek. Babylon 5 showed how good a well-written sci-fi series could be (and how lousy Deep Space 9 was in comparison); Battlestar Galactica raised the bar again.

I find the problem with Trek to be its heavy-handed symbolism: the Federation is the UN, the Romulans are the Chinese, the Vulcans are the Japanese, the Klingons are the Russians, etc. etc. etc. The writers of the various series have apparently never heard of the term "subtle"; in fact, they tend to use the same four or five plotlines over and over (and over and over and over....)

And aside from the original Trek series, the shows were so relentlessly P.C. and full of multiculti horseshit that I just couldn't take it any more. Also, the designers of Federation starships seem to have evolved from the same folks who design dentist's offices today -- boring.

I thought the Vulcans were Jews. Maybe Zen Budhist Jews. It's understandable that ST is the most missed show though, because they keep taunting Trekkie and Trekker alike with all of these pseudo-trek knockoffs. They've done that to a lesser extent with The Twilight Zone, so I suppose it's probably the second most missed.

I miss Sledge Hammer! and, for that matter, 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'.

I gave up on ST-TNG when Wesley wasn't killed by the locals when he tossed a ball and broke a window pane.

Also, the survival rate for Guys with Red Shirts was much higher in the latter series than it should have been.

Sorry, Ace; I can't resist.

The AoSHQ version of the Qur'an:
Chapter 1. The Opening.
1. In the name of ALLAH, the most merciful, the merciful.
2. All praise belongs to ALLAH, the Lord of the worlds,
3. The most merciful, the merciful,
4. The Master of the Day of Judgment.
5. You alone we worship and Your aid we seek.
6. Guide us to the blog,
7. The blog which You have graced, not that with which You are angered nor which is astray.
[Amen.]

Chapter 2. The Cow. (Untranslated)
bismi-llahi-rraHmaani-rraHiim
1. alif laam miim.
2. dhaalika-lblog laa rayba fiihi hudan lilmuttaqiin.

Hehehehehe. If I'm not killed, I'll be struck by lightning.

Ace,

For those who truly love Star Trek, there is no missing it, for they live it.

...

And this...

10. The A-Team

WTF!?!?

That's the tenth most missed show in the UK?

I think that explains a lot.

A.LOT.

Just Sayin'

Ace,

I almost forgot...

Fawlty Towers

The.Funniest.Show.on.Earth.

Ever.

Really.

Really, Really.

Just sayin' again.

BASIL!

Babylon 5 showed how good a well-written sci-fi series could be (and how lousy Deep Space 9 was in comparison);

Monty makes me laugh. Babylon 5 was so fucking godawful that it makes Star Trek look like Shakespeare.

Brett--

Babylon 5 was so fucking godawful that it makes Star Trek look like Shakespeare.

Homes, you just lucky you ain't standin' here. I'd have to go all Zarqawi on your ass. The worstBabylon 5 season (probably the last one) was still better by far than the best Trek season.

Firefly, of course.

Yeah, Firefly for sure, but I really miss a series called Boomtown. I've got it on DVD but I wish they would bring it back.

The worst B5 Season was the first one- where they secretly replaced the Commander with a plank of wood for the entire season. 2nd plus was great-you had Bruce Boxleitner- the Scarecrow as the Commander (captain in rank actually)

And if someones only seen bits of the first season (missing the metaplot, maybe too much Delenn, not enough London & G'Kar) I can see the criticism.

I skip over half the 1st season myself when I pop in the DVDs

Howie, you're on crack. The first season was just fine, and if it wasn't planned that the Commander would leave, it was several inventive plot twists that made it everything done in that season fit together just fine later on.

Season 5 however, was totally nonsensical, contradictory, and boring. They took the one character that held all the various plots threads together like superglue - Ivanova - and disappeared her until the last episode. I could barely keep my skull from exploding over that boneheaded maneuver.

Did I mention Claudia Christian is smokin' hot? Tracy Scoggins paled in comparison.

I don't buy it. The most missed T.V. show has to be either 'Crusade' (the B5 spinoff), 'Babylon 5' itself, or 'Firefly'.

Unless of course, it's between seasons of BSG, in which case that would be the one.

Why, yes. I do enjoy living at home. Why? ;)

Homes, you just lucky you ain't standin' here. I'd have to go all Zarqawi on your ass.

Bring it, princess.

Babylon 5? Terrible writing that included a four-year story stretched out over a five-year run with expectedly disastrous results; mind-numblingly wooden characters played by astonishingly bad actors (for God's sake, Claudia Christian was so terrible that she couldn't even land the part of Seven Of Nine on Voyager -- she got beat out by Jeri Ryan -- and the less said about Mira Furlan and Bruce Boxleitner, the better); and a "plot" that was predictable to the point of inducing laughter when it wasn't inducing comas, culminating in the all-time worst, and worst-telegraphed, climax in all of television history (when the Vorlons and the Shadows just, um, left). And the mayonaisse on this colossal shit sandwich of a series was that the producers apparently thought it would be neater to have their CGI effects resemble CGI effects rather than, say, spaceships and what have you -- talk about insulting the intelligence of the viewer.

Star Trek is hardly great television the way BSG is, but TNG and DS9 were orders of magnitude better shows than B5 in terms of stories, character, acting, and effects.

Brett:

BSG is, but TNG and DS9 were orders of magnitude better shows than B5 in terms of stories, character, acting, and effects.

LOST IN SPACE,VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA,GILLIGANS ISLAND,BEVERLY HILLBILLIES,BLACKSHEEP SQUADRON,COMBAT,12OCLOCK HIGH and yes STAR TREK

Clearly, the Bejorans were Canadians, hee hee.
Monty, who were the Makee supposed to be?

Who wound up Spurwing?

This was a British poll. So where's "Benny Hill"?

Monty and Brett,

LOL.

Really.

Actually,

Laughed.Out.Loud.

Thanks.

DS9 was the last great Trek series, as for the PC crap, it is waht really started to get on my nerves. What do you expect form a show born out of the 1960's.

Now the New BSG, when that mini premeried in the SCIFI channel I knew Enterprise was finished. Those 4 hours were a highter caliber SF that Enterprise and Yoyager were combined.

BSG is more relevant to our times and the GWOT than ENT was with the Xindi, that was ment to replace that abortion of a story line called the Temporal Cold War

IN the second half od season 2 there is going to be two BSG episodes that tear the appeasers abd peaceniks a new rectum.

That show just keeps getting better,