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Lis is happy.

After spending most of the weekend remembering that there are some days every month when it really sucks to be female, I got a nice surprise in the post this morning.

I'm forever grateful to the Industrious Indi who has so kindly sent me the three special edition Voyager TV Guide covers. Woohoo!

While this means I have been enjoying reading the fantastic Voyager feature and marvelling at the sacred visage of the Auburn Goddess, Captain Janeway on the cover (yes, I chose to read the Seven of Nine cover so as not to mark the others) it does mean I'm bewildered at the confusing array of television programmes you Americans have to choose from. By the Icon's coffee pot, I think I now see why Homer Simpson has such a hard time when he tries to move away from the TV. But what a cute size your TV Guide is!

Not too sure I like the guy on page 20 who appears to take great delight into ripping into The Weakest Link. "Are we going to fall for another half baked, over hyped transplant from across the Atlantic?" he asks. Now you know how we poor Brits feel. At least the Spice Girls didn't last too long. Did they?

Besides, Anne Robinson is cool. As anyone who saw her savage those evil company directors on consumer affairs programme Watchdog will know.

"Whose a few words short of a spontaneous retort?" the TV Guide writer thinks to ask Robinson. Obviously he wasn't privy to the Eastenders celebrity special in which Robinson asked contestants to vote off the the member who was "thicker than Pat Butcher's Earrings." Or the episode when she asked the poor taxi driver if he drove with the windows open, as that would account for the fact that his brains seem to have been blown out. Or the hapless local government official who answered a maths question incorrectly and had to suffer a lecture on how this did not bode well for the British people "if this is the quality of civil servants they have dealing with their hard earned taxes?"

Oh and by the way, like the Great Divide of Star Trek fandom, where hard core DS9 fans and the Hard Core Voyager fan sometimes don't see eye to eye, I cannot stand Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Many many many thanks to Indi for his kind-hearted gift, which I will forever remember. He truly is the Meek, Mild and Generous One.

Trek BBS Today

Below are some of the topics currently being discussed at the Trek BBS:

-Should Captain Archer be Canadian?

-What's the best ending of an episode in Star Trek?

-What will we do without Voyager?

More topics can be found at the Trek BBS!

Trek Two Years Ago

Below are some of the most important headlines that appeared on TrekToday on Friday the 21st of May, 1999:

• Julia Houston Looks at the Internet

  About.com's Star Trek Guide Julia Houston published a new article at her site in which she looked at whether the internet is good for Trek Fandom. In it, she urges fans to be a little more considerate in their criticisms and to remember that Star Trek is written by people too. Good advice. So its a good job the article is still available here for you to read today.

• 'Get a Life!' Reviewed

  Jeff Bond at Eon Magazine reviewed William Shatner's [then] new book 'Get a Life!'

  Eventually Shatner makes his peace with the fans (and having observed his performance with the other 'Four Captains' at Grand Slam last year, he genuinely seemed to be enjoying himself), and if GET A LIFE never really comes up with a satisfactory explanation for the appeal of STAR TREK other than the inevitable "...I think it's Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of the future blah blah blah..." well, at least Shatner gave it his best shot. As for me, why do I like STAR TREK? I don't know, but here's one crazy possibility: maybe I just like that darned William Shatner.

  Sadly, the full review is no longer available online.

• Trek BBS Gets 30 Threads in a Day

  Christian reported that the Trek BBS had seen a flurry of activity in the past day, with almost thirty new threads appearing. Poking my head into the new Enterprise forum today, I think 30 new threads in one forum is now the current norm.

For more headlines from that day, please head over to our May 1999 archives.

Today's Television Listings

• The Sci-Fi Channel will be showing the Original Series' 'Metamorphosis' at 5:00pm Eastern Time.

• In Canada, Space! will be holding a Deep Space Nine marathon tomorrow, showing viewers' favourite episodes every hour from 10:00am to 7:00pm Eastern Time. At 10:00pm, they'll also be showing Voyager's 'Future's End, Part Two.'

• In the United Kingdom, Sky One will be showing TNG's 'A Matter Of Honour' at 17:00 and at 23:30 GMT, and the new Voyager episode 'Prophecy' at 20:00. Thanks go out to the Great Link for this!

• In Germany, Sat.1 will be showing TNG's 'Der Reisende' (Where No One Has Gone Before) at 16:00 CET.

• In the Netherlands, Yorin will be showing DS9's 'Crysalis' at 17:15 CET, while Net5 will be showing Voyager's 'Blood Fever' at 18:35. Thanks go out to StarTrek.nl for this!

Tomorrow's Television Listings

• The Sci-Fi Channel will be showing the Original Series 'Journey to Babel' at 5:00p.m.

• In Canada, Space! will be showing the Original Series 'Catspaw' at 10:00 a.m and 4:00 p.m EST. Deep Space Nine's 'Invasive Procedures' will be shown at 5:00 p.m and Voyager's 'Warlord' at 10:00 p.m.

• In the United Kingdom, Sky One will be showing the Next Generation's 'The Measure of a Man' at 17:00 GMT. Thanks go out to the Great Link for this!

• In Germany, Sat.1 will be showing the Next Generation's 'Die Geheimnisvolle Kraft' at 16:00 CET.

• In the Netherlands, Yorin will be showing Deep Space Nine's 'Treachery, Faith And The Great River' at 17:15 ECT. Net5 will be showing Voyager's 'Unity' at 18:35. Thanks go out to StarTrek.nl for this!

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