Max Headroom cognoscenti will remember "Security Systems" as The Filthy Episode. Even though it's not the show's best entry, everybody who ever saw it still remembers it. This is mainly because "Security Systems" features a mind-boggingly bizarre sequence where Max seduces a female computer program. It must have been quite a coup to get this early Cybersex scene past ABC's Standards and Practices department in 1987.

And now we come to the time when we wave farewell to the original Galactica, and ponder what we’ve seen. What have we learned?

Well, we’ve learned that the critics were not wrong: It was a goofy, wildly uneven, frequently poorly-written show, particularly in the first third of its run, when the critics were paying attention.

At the same time, we’ve learned that the critics were wrong: Despite all the above, it was interesting and entertaining, and quite a bit more ambitious than any other SF series before it, including, yes, Star Trek.

I’m tired. I’m a worn out kind of tired. I’m not sure why. The rest of these Galactica reviews were done months ago, but the wind went out of my sails after “Experiment in Terra.” That was a good enough episode, so we can’t blame it on that. “Take the Celestra” should have been a good episode, but coming on the big conclusion to the ’Terra’ arc, it felt like the train had lost an axle, you know? And here we are with the surprisingly glum, slow, and lifeless season/series finale.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Frack! My first review evaporated in a computer crash.

Ok, starting again: