Wit and wisdom from my Uncle Jim:
"April showers bring May flowers."
"Yes, Jim, but it's May now and it's raining like Washington State."
"What do May flowers bring? Pilgrims!"

Trekkin'
Not to toot my own horn, but my Star Trek: Odyssey would have been awesome. The last few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise have been taut and thrilling, leading me to hope the season finale will be a satisfactory conclusion to the year-long Xindi arc. The current third season started off rough, the overwhelming feeling I gathered was of a cheap publicity stunt, but as the year has progressed a good overall story has been told: sacrifice, both of life and of conscience; lies, betrayal, and cowardice. The renaissance has been very different than either The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine experienced during their third seasons, but there has been the predictable Star Trek third season jump in quality/hitting the show's stride. I'm quite pleased. In yet another marker of Voyager's futility, there was no third season rise in quality; Odyssey would have been the cat's meow from the get go, so imagine how great it would have been after the third season.

finals ranks...
Captain Elisabeth Rose McKenna - Commanding Officer
Commander Benincio Torres - Executive Officer (Maquis)
Lieutenant Commander Sovok - Tactical Officer/Chief of Security
Lieutanant Commander K'rena Singh - Chief Engineering Officer (Maquis)
Lieutenant Nick Locarno - Conn Officer
Lieutenant Daniel Kim - Operations Officer
Emergency Medical Hologram "Doc" - Chief Medical Officer
Chief Petty Officer Neelix - Security Officer
Doctor Kes - Medical Officer
Ensign Liz Locarno - Engineer's Mate