Johnny Ringo said:

So...Growing a Riker beard is kinda the opposite of jumping a Shark on skis?

That is the exact definition (WARNING: link to TVTropes, only click if you have nothing better to do for the rest of the day).

From what I understand Battlestar Galactica is what Voyager would have been like if Ron Moore had his way..

It certainly sounds like it by the first few commentaries I've listened to on BSG. He talks a lot about how you have to shoot Trek a certain way, from certain angles only, and how he deliberately had them avoid doing any of that on BSG.

Incidentally - anyone else seen the teaser trailer for BSG: Blood and Chrome? - looks pretty flashy but there's not a lot to go on yet, just a lot of action scenes set to Trent Reznor's version of Immigrant song.

Cool to see classic era cylons, raiders and basestars.

Looks so awesome. I'm especially eager to see how they do the Galactica without any sets. They filmed most of it on greenscreen and just recreated the sets from the series in CG. This was supposed to save money, but I don't understand how it could be cheaper... But the only Cylons I noticed looked too much like the new models from the series, not the toasters they showed in flashbacks.

Too bad SyFy is hell-bent on not releasing this, even though its been done and sitting on a shelf since November. Come on, we want to give you money to watch this. I will buy a Blu-ray tomorrow for $30 based on that clip they didn't want released, which is $30 more than they have now. They say they want to make it into a web series, but I don't see SyFy taking that risk, unless they just sold it off to Hulu or Netflix and let them take care of it.

Been checking out AWAKE and it's interesting so far.

I will be upset when (not if) this show gets cancelled because no one gets it. After we watch the pilot, I turned to my wife and said "I know we'll get a satisfyingly ending to this. Worst case scenario, it gets cancelled and they add a black screen to the last episode saying 'The Son Universe was the real one. Sorry if you thought it was the Wife Universe. The End.'" ;-)