I watched the season premiers of Stargate: SG1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica last night. I enjoyed them. But it seems unlikely that any of those programs will have the impact on popular culture that Star Trek has had. As I saw asked on one Trek website, how likely is it that anyone will ever look at some new gadget and comment, “wow, that’s like something out of Battlestar Galactica”? And yet people will invoke Star Trek that way, not to mention the little catch phrases, like “beam me up” that have entered the lexicon.

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