News Summary

• Tropes such as faster-than-light travel and interstellar conflict, which Babylon 5 relied upon, barely existed before Star Trek.
• The bedrooms of married couples showed twin beds.
• The first interracial kiss in US television history occurred on Star Trek and that episode was banned across much of the South.
• TNG is the first era of startrek vaguely watchable in completeness and having an okay time as far as acting, pacing and storytelling goes.