When you were in third grade did you have that weird friend who thought it was hilarious to make fun of Star Trek by calling it Star Feck with characters John Leak Pee-hard and Do-me-onna Toy? It turns out that his idea of growing up was to change the names to Captain Belinda Blowhard and Chief Engineer Sally Popyatopov. Whatever potty humor he had before he increased ten times. He still chuckles and blushes when people mention sex. Green clouds appear when characters fart. His idea of intellectual humor is having a half-android character confuse an order to "scan" for (imagine) "scat" and start vocalizing. The thing is, these actors *could* have acted. Some of them have real careers (and some sadly seem to have gone nowhere, so we'll never know). But they have almost nothing to work with here. But.... BUT there is just enough to make you wonder what happened. In the first episode they are emotionless characters because all humans have had their feelings suppressed. This means they are contributors to the genocides of thousands of alien races. Now suddenly they have their emotions back, and they maturely decide to... boink each other (off camera, of course), install a chocolate fountain, get drunk on this strange thing called al-co-hol, and boink some more. This could have been a redemption story about how people could change from being the borg-like villains to becoming heroes. It could have been commentary on nationalism and fascism. There's even a side plot about some unknown force getting in their way and sabotaging things for nefarious purposes, which doesn't really start to go anywhere until episode six -- the last episode, with a big "To Be Continued" at the end. And it never continued, of course. It was never even released until many years after it was filmed, so they had a pretty big clue that it wasn't going to be continued. If the whole series would have been like most of that episode, it probably would have gotten at least five stars. Actual humor would have gotten it to four. Three stars is generous.
