I have been watching Babylon 5 on Netflix lately. We didn't watch it when it was on first-run, or in reruns. But with JMS being so "in the news" with comics now, and with Netflix streaming all the TV episodes, I decided to give it a try. I am up to Episode 13 in the first season, and it is -- not bad. I suppose it is as good as the first season of STNG. But it does feel dated. And a few things bother me.
Everyone refers to the alien races as aliens. Even the aliens. It seems to me that, at the point where there are so many different races, they would all have a word for themselves, and you might refer to humans and non-humans (if you were talking about other races as a whole), or non-Terrans (better). And the humans would be aliens to any other planet's population. The whole "aliens" thing just reeks of future racism.
I am just waiting now for Netflix to have all the Star Trek series available for streaming. I never did watch the last two seasons of Voyager, or past the first couple episodes of Enterprise. And I really would love to rewatch my favorite episode of Star Trek ever, the DS9 episode of time travel back to "The Trouble with Tribbles."
And I just have to say, "Curse you, Netflix, for streaming so many TV shows that I end up wasting way too much time watching!"