I had my own problems with the original series. It was stupid in the basic story and premise and plotting. Example 1: Here's a guy who single-handedly destroys 10 planets full of life and culture by greed, betrayal, and treachery. Our heroes get to him early on, when he is trapped in some rubble. Do they immediately hold court rounding up a dozen jurors? Nope. Do they shoot him on sight because this is war and civilization itself has just gone down the tubes? Nope. Do they fix him so that he can never make trouble again even if he should be rescued or freed? Nope. They just shake their heads over his perfidy and keep moving... letting him get away. Boys playing by Marquess of Queensbury Rules. They don't think it would be fair to kill a trapped rat? I do! Example 2: The kid and the mechanical doggie. Whose lame brain conceived of a BARKING critter on board a space ship (metal walls, small space, irritated neighbors with raw nerves because they've just lost everything). I would have put them both in the airlock and pushed the button myself the first time either of them put a whisker outside of their cubicle. As for letting the kid stow away on planet-side missions? :roll eyes: Cute may be needed for audience ratings, and the children are the future they are protecting, but endangering the entire mission and the lives of every last remaining human for a PhotoOp is stupid. Example 3: What sort of scoundrels would drag the entire enemy armada to Earth? If Earth hasn't yet become aware of the problem, it doesn't have the resources and technological development to fight a galactic war. As Asimov once wrote so succinctly, if the aliens find us, we'd better hope that they are friendly. If a ship full of refugees landed on my porch saying "We've got hyperdrive, and you have 3 months to build a fleet," I wouldn't appreciate it. It would be far better for them to reseed the universe as widely and thoroughly as possible, trusting in the human nature of survival to make lots of children, in lieu of shepherding everybody together like eggs in one basket. If it takes a thousand years for civilization to develop again on a thousand worlds, so be it. The race has survived. And perhaps one of those civilizations will develop in such a way that betrayal and treachery aren't rewarded because each individual has his own worth. That said, the show had interesting effects and props and was better than the others available for watching. The episode where the guys were willing to give up their lives for each other was good (it got to the heart of what makes us human and worthy of life). And, decades later, I can remember some of the scenes... so it couldn't have been that bad. (I don't remember Space 1999 at all.) Carolly