STARMAN? STARGATE?

Starman - never seen it. Stargate I have seen, though not the one where Unas holds Daniel... Wifey watches it a lot.

It's not bad, compared with practically everything else on TV. It has that MacGyver guy in it. A nerdy professor type. A hot macho blonde. A big bald black alien. A phlegmatic superior officer.

These guys are basically the green berets of the galaxy. They teleport into alien systems and provide advice and support to alien civilizations that are being menaced by the bad guys. Sometimes they kidnap evil aliens and bring them back to earth for interrogation.

I enjoy it because every show has a well-staged firefight between the good guys and aliens, robots, savages, monkey frogs, or whatever happens to be around. And, they don't always win. The MacGyver guy's usually up for moving in and killing everything in sight, but the professor usually is able to decode the crystal tablet's ancient runes and summon an ancient message from a transcendentally powerful entity that solves all problems and makes the galaxy safe again.

There are better ways to waste an hour, but I'm a family man now.