I moved this past weekend. After spending the last year in Manhattan’s Financial District, I am now living in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. And I love it.

Moving, of course, is stressful. Packing, moving, unpacking, discovering what you need, what you don’t have, how to set things up. But the bulk of the difficulty is over and now it’s just figuring out where I want to put things. I should have everything in order just in time for me to leave for six weeks.

In the meantime I am doing my best to get to know the neighborhood. There are so many really great places around that I hope to post about in the coming weeks.

More to come later…

I don’t have a lot of time now, but the good news is that my mother is home and doing well. She’s on blood thinners, and that should address the clotting issue. I spent most of the last week and the weekend with her.

Also, I’m moving on Friday, so things here are hectic and I likely won’t have time to post much. But we’ll see.

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend and, if you went to Wiscon, you didn’t get sick (and if you did, I hope it passed quickly).

While I don’t take back my previous statement about a lot of Star Trek being shit, I will admit to being a fan of The Next Generation and DS9 in the day. It’s just that in retrospect, after watching BSG, I am a bit spoiled. The way I see it, Star Trek (at least the series I mentioned), was good SF television. BSG is good (actually great) television period.

But on to the Star Trek. There was another Voyager episode on the other day and it dealt with the burgeoning Seven of Nine/Chakotay relationship. I think it was the finale.

That made me think of the various inter-crew relationships on the various series.

So, I pose to you, the readers, what was the best, most believable relationship on the various Trek shows? And what was the worst, most clumsy, ridiculous relationship?

Here are the ones I remember:

1. Ryker/Troi

2. Worf/Troi

3. Picard/Crusher

4. Data/Yar (maybe not a real relationship, but I thought it deserved mention)

5. Kira/Odo

6. Worf/Dax

7. Bashir/Ezri Dax

8. Neelix/Kes

9. Paris/Torres

10. Chakotay/Seven of Nine

11. T’pol/Trip

Those are the only relationships between main crew members that I can remember (I’m not counting relationships like O’Brien and Keiko since she was a secondary character – though I did like the way that relationship progressed over the two series).  I also didn’t watch Enterprise much, but I read about the T’pol/Trip thing recently.

So, I open it up to you – which was the best? Which was the worst?

…can be such a load of shit.

My god, I’m sitting here watching a Voyager episode (don’t ask) and it’s appallingly bad.

BSG has spoiled me for a lot of other shows.

Watching Battlestar Galactica this season, I have been struck, particularly recently, by similarities to movies. War movies.

Two episodes ago, I was getting a strong Private Pyle vibe from the Chief. This week, I was getting a strong Apocalypse Now thing from Starbuck’s crew. Not quite a river, but similar. The further they go, the stranger things get, and the more tense.

I’m wondering what next week will bring.