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 From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com 
  
 Verily, in article <932307215.779031248.136346.anim8rfsk- 
 cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this 
 message: 
 > Unwatchable garbage. Offensively bad. The worst episode not helmed by or 
 > featuring Gates McMuffin except for maybe the one with the space Mayans. 
  
  
 I don't agree. The premise could have used more exploration, but it was 
 nice to see some aliens who were actually *different,* for a bit of 
 actual SF in the SF show. 
  
 What they should have done is developed this more. Tamarians are highly 
 narrative, apparently more so than the rest of us, and what does this 
 mean? There are fascinating implications for sociology, mental health, 
 and potentially even religion. There's also a burning question of how 
 anyone learns the stories in the first place. All of this stuff could 
 have been developed in side stories, as other alien cultures have been. 
  
 Lower Decks has a Tamarian crew member, Kayshon, who has learned to 
 speak the way everyone else does but sometimes reverts to his natural 
 mode. He's a pretty good character, so I'm not sorry they're in the 
 Federation. 
  
  
 -- 
 Trustworthy words are not pretty; 
 Pretty words are not trustworthy. 
  
 -Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)