Helpful Hints for Household Horror

TELEVISION, long the home of monstrous behavior, has never seemed like the ideal medium for actual monsters. TV has tried to generate chills over the years, but for every occasional success like “The Twilight Zone” or “The X-Files,” there’s a “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” or “666 Park Avenue” that was quickly killed off. If you’re looking for legitimate, jump-from-your-chair scares, the conventional wisdom goes, you’re usually better off in a theater.

Lately, though, horror has stormed the small screen, winning over viewers in large numbers by rewriting the rules specifically for the medium.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine the Best Trek Series Turns 20

Star Trek: Deep Space NineI wasn’t always a fan of Star Trek. I’d watched the original Star Trek series as a kid in syndication and never cared for it all that much. I still don’t. And when Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) first started airing in 1987 I didn’t watch it because it was something my dad was into. And I was at the age that I thought anything my dad was into was positively lame.

In fact, it wouldn’t be until I was in high school and the third series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) premiered that my love of all things Trek would be born.

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