I finally got a Netflix account and immediately started re-watching this show. Watching the episodes without commercial interruption and one right after the other - at least for me - highlights the very game-like nature of the action. The crew barely gets out of one mess before they're plunged straight into the next one . . . and sometimes several messes hit them at once. Add in the two running gags of their off-kilter android [who essentially crews the ship by herself) and how saidr beat-to-hell ship keeps breaking down everytime they turn around and I find myself wishing I was running this as a campaign.

There's one scene where most of the crew gets locked in the mess by an android (NOT their own) that's been reprogrammed to kill them by plunging their ship into a sun. As the speakers play the dramatic announcement in the reprogrammer's own voice, we get shots of the crew members barely pausing in spooning up soup, saying in response to The Voice things like, "Wish we could remember doing that." and "Sounds like we're doomed." I was laughing my butt off, imagining players reacting the exact same way around a gaming table.

Richard Aiken

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