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Autumn has come, which means that the past several weekends have been spent either celebrating the Jewish holidays or at farms, nature centers and agricultural festivals. We have seen more pigs, sheep and chickens in the past few weeks than we did all year previously! We also went to the Maryland Historical Society on the one rainy Saturday to see the Star Spangled Banner manuscript and all the local Civil War artifacts. And of course we've had soccer practices and games.

So far I'm unenthralled by the new television season. I'm enjoying Heroes though it seems very X-Men derivative to me so far. I stopped watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip after three episodes because it was painful to watch, I liked The Nine's pilot but missed it this week, and I'm still not in love with Battlestar Galactica despite watching the catch-up episode and the season premiere. I am rather enjoying Shark, since James Woods seems perfectly cast; I wish they'd give Jeri Ryan more to do!

Trek BBS Today

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

-To Reboot or Not To Reboot, Redux

-If not Bakula, then whom?

-Does Smallville lack cojones?

Many more topics can be found at the Trek BBS!

Trek Two Years Ago

These were some of the major news items from September 2004:

• 'Storm Front, Part I' Loses Quarter Of Viewers
  Star Trek: Enterprise was dealt a blow on its Friday debut when nearly 26% of the previous season's viewers didn't return for the premiere - despite making a big improvement in the timeslot for UPN.

• Online Critics Rain On 'Storm Front, Part One'
  The first online reviews for the first episode of season four of Enterprise might best have been summed up by The Great Link's Michael Marek, who said, "I think Enterprise should lay off time travel for a while."

• Trek Alumni Celebrated At Film Festivals
  Star Trek alumni were honoured at several film festivals during the autumn of 2004. Writer John Logan and actor William Shatner appeared at events in Los Angeles and Canada, while a ghost story starring Marina Sirtis and Linda Park took top awards at a genre festival.

More news can be found in the archives.

Poll Results

Below are the results of the most recent TrekToday poll:

Which do you wish had been your bid in the Christie's auction? $62,000 for Captain Picard's chair 33.6% - (171 Votes) $132,000 for Starship Voyager model 27.9% - (142 Votes) I'm still mad I didn't bid on Shatner's kidney stone 15.1% - (77 Votes) $96,000 for Borg Cube model 10.2% - (52 Votes) $4,800 for Vulcan lirpas 5.9% - (30 Votes) $5,500 for two empty bottles of Chateau Picard wine 4.5% - (23 Votes) Total Votes: 508

Please vote in our new poll on what you'd do if you had a billion dollars! (We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner...)

Happy Birthday!

Sunday, October 15th is the birthday of the late Mark Lenard, who played Spock's father, Ambassador Sarek, plus a Romulan Commander and a Klingon Captain.

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