But no matter how I managed to get my sci-fi fix, I can't escape the fact that during my TV-deprived years, I missed out on the reruns of the mother of all sci-fi shows...Star Trek. I had no idea what it was until I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. To put it mildly, I went crazy! I fell in love with the Star Trek universe. Now I keep pretty busy...I watch reruns of the original series, ST:TNG, ST: Deep Space 9, and ST: Voyager. I am a member of a great online Voyager group:

• Robert Beltran Estrogen Brigade. Based on the the other *brigades*, this is a mailing list for women who love all things about the USS Voyager's First Officer, Chakotay, and the man who played him, Robert Beltran.

Two years ago I discovered Farscape. My friend sent me 13 eps on tape, which I promptly shelved due to lack of time, but then with no job and little to do but look for a new job and read books, I got out the Farscape eps and began watching. I watched all 13 eps in two days and called my friend and begged for more. I'm completely hooked. There's lots of sexual tension in this show, and where the X-Files Mulder and Scully leave off with the subtext and the just plain not admitting the truth, John and Aeryn pick up with overt interest in each other and lots of chemistry. But that's not all, the chemistry between the whole crew is astounding. Farscape quickly became my favorite show on TV, right there with Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Unfortunately, the SciFi channel cancelled the show, a shortsighted and completely money based decision. The fans are fighting to increase interest and viewership in the show and were recently rewarded with the filming of a soon-to-be-aired miniseries.   Please check out our Save Farscape website. Here's where I've been spending all my Farscape time online:

• Farscape Fantasy, a great site done by Dallascaper with endless episode information and music videos created by fans.
• Karlsweb, a great place for spoilers, pictures of the actors before and after makeup and costume design hints.

About six years ago, I started watching Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. This was a cult, campy show when I started watching it, but then became a full-blown hit. The vampire effects look wonderful. The show originally built off of the unresolved sexual tension between Buffy (the slayer) and Angel (her vampire boyfriend), but Angel fled to Los Angeles after season 3. Buffy's had a few other romances in the years, but last year hooked up with another member of the undead, Spike, her once arch-enemy. And damned if Spike doesn't look great pretty much naked. Anyway, Spike went and got his soul back thinking that was what Buffy wanted and promptly went a bit insane with guilt. The entire gang fought off the "big bad" during the final season.  Buffy admitted she loved Spike, Spike died to save the world, Willow tapped into magical powers beyond this realm and became a God and just as Xander and Anya were working out there issues, Anya was killed.  It was a great show and sorely missed, however, it lives on in DVD.  I've found two really great Buffy sites:

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer. This site, done by Xinlei Du, has great pictures, cool music, and a huge list of links.
• The Official Buffy Site. A great place to find out anything you want about the show and post on their Forum board.

As many of you know, Angel is the TV spin-off of Buffy. This show is just as good as Buffy. Angel is living in Los Angeles trying to ease his guilt over being such a mean, evil vamp by saving poor down-trodden Angelinos. I might have made it sound really corny, but trust me the show is great! He runs into Cordelia (another Buffy alum), who is there trying to begin her acting career. Angel and Cordelia were initially helped by Wesley Wyndam Price, rogue demon hunter (and Buffy's former watcher) and Gunn, a local dude with a big grudge against the sunlight challenged.  Then Angel went to Pylea, another dimension, and found Fred and she joined the group. With the final episodes of Angel upon us, the gang runs the evil law firm, Wolfram and Hart, but are trying to use the resources available to them to thwart the evil W & H sanctions.  Cordelia is gone, Fred is dead, but still among them as a demon without a home, and Spike, killed in the Buffy finale, was resurrected to fight the good fight with Angel.  Though, admittedly, I haven't browsed many Angel site's I have found a couple of good ones:

• City of Angelus - a great site, great graphics, some flash and loads quickly
• Angel Forever - a pretty good site filled with great stuff :-)

No list of my favorite sci-fi shows would be complete without Roswell. I originally watched this to see how much of it was going to be based on (or just taken straight from) the X-Files. And I have to tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. I watched for all three years and am really sad this show was cancelled. DVD's are finally being released though, so I'm having a joyous time watching episodes all over again.   I don't know how much longer these links will be working, but my favorite links are:

• Roswell: Crashdown. This is a great site, with lots of photos, and even pictorials of the eps.
• Leaving Normal which is a great place for spoilers and unique photes of the cast.

I also loved The X-Files. My husband introduced me to this show (he now says he regrets it deeply) and with one episode, I was hooked. The show finished it's ninth season last year with David Duchovny showing up for the final episode. Since seasons 7 and 8 greatly disappointed me, I decided not to watch the last year, but I will always love this show, if only for the first five seasons which were top rate. I have every one of those episodes, but a couple on tape. I'm a sucker for the chemistry between Mulder and Scully and would have been happy if the end of season 8 was the end of the series....what a great ending. I did belong to tons of XF groups, but found my niche...and now only belong to one group.

• the FBI's Most Unwanted, a truly nutty group who support "popularity challenged" episodes.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
--William Blake

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