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Just my luck. About six weeks ago, Dutch TV started airing the second season of Once & Again. It started about twenty minutes before the start of Oz on another channel, and I liked it so much that I ended up taping Oz and watching it later. After a couple of weeks, I had really gotten into the series, and wished I could have seen the first season. About a week ago, I noticed that Belgian TV (which we also get here)was also showing Once & Again, so I tuned in to see which episode it was. Turned out to be the final episode of the first season, meaning that I'll of course never have a chance anymore to see season one.

The Belgians are also airing the show daily, rather than weekly, so in a few days, once they have caught up with Dutch TV, I'll be faced with another dilemma - on which of the two channels am I going to follow the show? On the one hand, if I watch it on Dutch TV, I'll be able to spread out this Once & Again season over the next half year, while if I watched it on Belgian TV I'd be done in four weeks - and then would likely have to wait a full year for the next season to arrive here. On the other hand, I can't be sure I'll continue to be able to watch the show at the same time for the next half year, and the prospect of daily late-night Once & Again showings to end my day is a very attractive one. Decision, decisions!

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Below are some of the most important headlines that appeared on TrekToday on Tuesday the 3rd of August, 1999:

• The Franchise's Future
  We published the 6th installment of our article series on the future of the Star Trek franchise, written by David E. Sluss. "Star Trek is in serious trouble, folks. Regular readers of Cynics Corner Interactive won't be surprised to see me write something like that, since I'm prone to accentuate the negative in all things, but I think that even the most ardent of fans can see, in their heart of hearts, that I'm not too far off the mark here." The full article can still be found here.

• Star Trek Bottled Water Details
  Fans throughout the world rejoiced when the Starbase-1 Coffe Company announced it would be producing the merchandise item fans had asked about for years - Altair Water, available in special bottles with Star Trek labels.

Today's Television Listings

• In Canada, Space! will be showing the Original series episode 'Amok Time' at 10:00 a.m Eastern Time, with a repeat at 4 p.m. At 12:00 a.m, the Next Generation's 'Times Arrow, Part Two' will be shown, with DS9's 'Hippocratic Oath' at 5:00 p.m. Voyager's 'Latent Image' will be shown at 10:00 a.m.

• In the United Kingdom, Sky One will show the Next Generation's 'Devil's Due' at 17:00 GMT. Thanks go out to the Great Link for this!

• In the Netherlands, Nederland 2 will show Voyager's 'Virtuoso' at 18:00 ECT. Deep Space Nine's 'Treachery, Faith And The Great River' will be shown on RTL5 at 18:00. Thanks go out to StarTrek.nl for this!

Tomorrow's Television Listings

• In Canada, Space! will be showing the Original Series' 'Who Mourns For Adonais?' at 10:00am Eastern Time, TNG's 'Realm of Fear' at 11:00am, DS9's 'Hippocratic Oath' at 12:00pm and Voyager's 'Latent Image' at 1:00pm.

• In the United Kingdom, Sky One will be showing a Voyager mini-marathon, beginning with 'Prime Factors' at 13:00 GMT and followed by 'Death Wish' at 14:00, 'False Profits' at 15:00 and 'Message in a Botle' at 16:00. Thanks go out to the Great Link for this!

• In the Netherlands, Nederland 2 will be showing Voyager's 'Memorial' at 17:10 CET. Thanks go out to StarTrek.nl for this!

• In Australia, TV1 will be showing the Original Series's 'The Offspring' at 8:30pm and DS9's 'Armageddon Game' at 10:30pm. Thanks go out to the Australian Babylon 5 & Star Trek air schedule

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