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'Star Trek: The Next Generation - Yesterday's Enterprise' episode review

One of the neat things about channel surfing on a hot, hazy and unusually lazy weekend afternoon is that sometimes infrequent TV watchers such as me can sometimes find new channels which have been added to the Expanded Basic lineup. Such was the case when, a few years ago I – purely by chance, mind you – was flipping through the channels on my family room television set when I noticed that Comcast (my cable provider) had added BBC America to the channel package I subscribe to.  This was a surprise to me – I don’t often scrutinize my bill for any lineup changes, and I don’t have the time to watch as much TV as I used to –  and I was kind of pleased even though at first I didn’t think it’d be too relevant to my TV-viewing tastes. That is, until I perused the then-current issue of  TV Guide  and noticed that BBC America supplanted Spike TV (the former TNN channel) as the go-to place to watch reruns of  Star Trek: The Next Generation,  the made-for-syndication sequel series to what is