In 1977 I was a HUGE sci fi fan. Star Wars had just come out and science fiction was all the rage. At the are of 13 I really wanted to like this show. I wanted it to be good. It was the lamest thing I had ever seen. The sluggish "comic timing" holding for laughs that would be put in later (wether or not the joke was funny), was deadly. It is just so weird a very respectable cast working so hard to make the lame writing work. It was all so derivative. I loved Star Wars and Star Trek they are great shows. There is however a lot of comic gold that could be mined from those great shows. Quark misses the mark by Billions and billions of light years!