My cable provider has recently added Sci Fi HD to its lineup, so I've been checking out some programming on it. Today, I watched an episode of Stargate Atlantis for the first time.
Or, rather, Star Trek without the name in front, like the first two seasons of Enterprise.
The episode I watched had:
- Transporters, complete with characters talking about beaming in and beaming out. And there was even a last-minute transport with a Star Trek transporter effect!
- Shields. Other sci-fi shows and movies have had shields, but these were dead ringers for the ones on Star Trek. These shields even blocked the transporter.
- Dampening field preventing beam outs.
- Cloaking device.
- Connor Trinneer, looking like a Trip Tucker who's spent four years as worm food.
- Robert Picardo.
I'm not saying it's necessarily a
bad show; whereas it's not a classic, I'm still DVR'ing the rest of the episodes on today. But watching it elicits the strongest sense of deja vu...