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. . . off a cliff: Why U.S. space policy is all wrong ALEXANDER ROSET

HOSE unfeeling suits at UPN just canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, a spin-off “prequel” to the original series that neither lived long nor, apparently, prospered. The show depicted mankind’s hesitant baby steps into galactic affairs and its first contacts with sundry Klingons and Romulans. Despite Enterprise’s dreadful theme song – a cheesy Michael Boltonesque number – its opening-title sequence was splendid, with images of the space shuttle and the international space station blending, as if it were a natural historical progression, into our first warp-driven starcraft and the consequent exploration of the final frontier.

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. . . off a cliff: Why U.S. space policy is all wrong ALEXANDER ROSET

HOSE unfeeling suits at UPN just canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, a spin-off “prequel” to the original series that neither lived long nor, apparently, prospered. The show depicted mankind’s hesitant baby steps into galactic affairs and its first contacts with sundry Klingons and Romulans. Despite Enterprise’s dreadful theme song – a cheesy Michael Boltonesque number – its opening-title sequence was splendid, with images of the space shuttle and the international space station blending, as if it were a natural historical progression, into our first warp-driven starcraft and the consequent exploration of the final frontier.