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> The again I have a high degree of apreaciation >for cheese in my sci-fi. So I guess you have to >judge for yourself. Still, if you look at the >early epsiodes of Next Generation compared to >the end of the series you can see that a good >show can grow from very campy origins.

Uh, what exactly about "Encounter at Farpoint" was campy? One thing I thought TNG and all the other entries in the Star Trek franchise did *right* was steer clear of the cheese and the laughs for the most part. Sure, it was chock full of cliches and techno-babble, but for the most part all the ST franchise entries are also chock full of decent-to-excellent actors who can play a serious roll perfectly without resorting to too much cheese and camp. Sure, a bunch of episodes and scenes within the episodes are played for laughs, but playing something for laughs and being cheesy are entirely different things.

-- Dave