Little Threshold for Threshold

I watched the premiere of Threshold last night, and was fairly bored by it. I figured the show had a lot going for it. I liked Carla Gugino as the original girlfriend on Spin City and from her short-lived turn as TV's Karen Sisco. Brent Spiner always gives a nuanced performance. And yet I found the show very derivative. It was created by Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise writer Brannon Braga, and this could have been his chance to break from the dull Trek formula, but I couldn't help thinking of the unwatchable Xindi storyline. Aliens infecting human DNA is too much like The X-Files.

Anyway. Friday nights have long been the low point of TV viewing.