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So, Star Trek.

I love Star Trek. I do. I rhapsodised before, I will again, but I properly love it. At the moment I am increasingly slowly working through the last season of Deep Space Nine, during which I'm basically becoming an increasingly howling wreck. Despite the fact that I am also a Doctor Who fan and therefore, you know, used to this stuff, I cried my eyes out when Jadzia died and then when Ezri first appeared I cried harder, essentially wailing 'THAT'S NOT MY DAX.' I have now warmed up to her enough to stop crying when she's on-screen, and Alternate!Ezri snogging Intendant!Kira made me do a dance of joy (well, no, the lack of reaction of other characters other than a sense of sorrow that she'll never fancy them) brought me some joy. Other than that I am delighted to see all the politics rolling out, and the war getting really nasty through the eyes of Nog; it's probably more relevant today, really, than anything else. Less Vic Fontaine would be nice too, actually, but that's me being petty, as I get annoyed at most holosuite program stuff.

However, re-watching DS9 is essentially an activity I'm puttering through on my lonesome, as it tends to be a DVD fest in my room. I'm also re-watching Voyager on the tellybox on the days I can get to the TV and I am stunned at how different it feels to Deep Space Nine. That's not a bad thing, but I did smirk the other day during Think Tank when the Vidians, who used to be the big bad, were summed up in one line. "The Vidian phage... cured that. You wouldn't recognise them." Deep Space Nine is involved and involving; Voyager I can dip in and out of a lot easier.

Voyager is also something I cheerfully watch with other family members; my mum tends to just say "What's that? That's a baddy. Why is she wearing that?" whereas Dad and I have taken to debating politics during Voyager. We both decided during Dark Frontier that the Borg are inherantly just not as scary once the queen is involved ("Cybermen wouldn't have done that," he said sagely, speaking as someone who hid behind the sofa during Tomb of the Cybermen; I didn't invoke the Cyberking), which then led on to pondering why, exactly, the Borg had been so rubbish at taking over the Alpha Quadrant. Then we debating on how they represented Maoist tactics (no, really) and then decided that the Borg represented modern Maoist tactics in many respects, whereas the Klingons were the full-blooded Communist uprisings of earlier periods. Then we got a bit stuck on Cardassians, but it wasn't bad for an ad-break natter.

I don't even know where I'm going with this, other than that whilst I love Deep Space Nine and it makes me do a happy dance, I still want to be Janeway when I grow up. And although I still fancy Harry Kim (putting him up there in the longevity stakes with Take That and Sue Perkins) like mad I am afraid that Gul Dukat Kira Nerys is now officially The Person I Fancy The Most.

... there wasn't really a point to this, but it's that or I burble about work and frankly the topic bores me to tears. I can't see how anyone else would be interested.

Finally, Gordon Brown: Prime Minister or Zombie? I found this oddly plausible, to be honest, especially the idea about the Milibands.