Anyway, while watching that worst of Star Trek series, I turned to my beloved and said, "You know, this isn't a bad setup. If only the writers had done things a little differently." I then launched into my own version of the episode, how it would play out in my head to be not only half-decent, but pretty awesome.
"You should start a blog," she said. "You could call it The Jeffrey's Tube". And thus the idea was born.
I love sci-fi. I grew up on old sci-fi, the great utopian and dystopian epics of the 30s through the 70s. And then, as I lived through the 80s and 90s, I saw the optimism of Star Trek: The Next Generation turn into the pessimism of the 90s dark age. I lived through the death of Superman, and the birth of the Internet forums that both ruined everything and made it all better.
Now it's the 21st century. Sci-fi is more polished than ever. It might surprise new sci-fi fans growing up in this era that there used to be science fiction shows so bad, so laughable, that they were almost awesome. Even at its most confusing and ridiculous, would Heroes have ever created an episode like "Threshold"? Could any gimmick by DC Comics' New 52 be as hilariously terrible as the debacle over DCs Armageddon 2001? Sure, Twilight is bad, but is it as bad as the Star Trek novel "Vulcan!"?
Well, all right, Twilight might be worse than "Vulcan!", but Vulcan! was still pretty terrible. And yet in that terribleness, there was a sort of beauty. The voice of a nation, not quite as corporately polished, speaking through its futuristic genre. Stumbling, yes, stumbling a lot, but in that stumbling revealing much about the human heart.
And that is what I seek in this blog. To reveal the human heart.
Mostly by making fun of really bad sci-fi.
So maybe my motives aren't completely pure. So sue me. That was a joke. Don't sue me.
