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by Rick Norwood
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Recommended Viewing for June 1999 | |
The two big events in SF tv in June are the end of one series and the beginning of another.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is syndicated, so in different localities the final episode will
be shown on different days in the first week of June. The current TV Guide, which has four Deep
Space Nine covers, echoes my judgement here last month that when people look back from the
Twenty-first Century on Star Trek, they will remember Deep Space Nine as the best of the four
Treks. Certainly, this past season every episode has been memorable, and the climax looks like it
will be the best of all.
Crusade is J. Michael Straczynski's follow up to Babylon 5, and Babylon 5 is the only sf
television series to equal and in some ways surpass Star Trek. Unfortunately, due to budgetary
problems, TNT has only ordered 13 episodes, so if the series does not attract a large number of
viewers, it may come to an untimely end. The events in Crusade immediately follow the tv movie
A Call to Arms (**), and precede the events shown in the last Babylon 5 episode, Sleeping in
Light (****).
June also has reruns of the three best X-Files of this season.
The Star Trek: Voyager reruns I cannot recommend.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
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