I would like to say that we have a nice Web site here. We get thousands of people visiting us a day, trying to get a dose of news, share in a little bit of opinion, and even hitting our message boards to discuss some of their own.

A lot of us have spent years working hard on this site, but I know that even after all of our success, I am just a lowly fan. I have no more pull when it comes to Hollywood (or Hollywood North, as we call Toronto and Vancouver) than anyone else. But I do have a slot here that I can speak out once in a while, and dammit, I'm going to do it.

While the United States and Canada is just three episodes in on the new "Battlestar Galactica" series, there is going to be a decision made in the next few days on whether or not NBC Universal -- which owns Sci-Fi Channel -- is going to move forward with a second season of the series. If you live in the United Kingdom and have access to Sky One, then last night, you had a chance to see the final episode of the first season. I am not going to spoil it here ... but even though the ending was spoiled for me some time ago, I still jumped at the twist ending. I was so engaged in the episode that I forgot everything I knew ahead of time about the season finale, and it jumped out at me as if it was something brand new.

It has been said here many times about how science-fiction is dying. I don't want to see it die. I've always been a science-fiction fan, with my heart still in Star Trek. It was in Star Trek that many of us became introduced to the work of Ronald D. Moore for the first time. Sure, love him or hate him ... Ronald D. Moore knows what the hell he's doing.

He and his colleagues turned a mediocre show that was "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and made it my favorite series of all time -- many times, working against the Rick Berman grain. He helped develop a series for HBO called "Carnivale" that I still look forward to tuning in to each week, despite the fact that he and Toni Graphia are no longer with the show.

Sure, he has had some missteps along the way ... but no matter what he was doing, he stayed focus on making quality television, and trying to make science-fiction watchable again. I don't know if he realized the power he had when he was first handed the reins of "Battlestar Galactica," what he could do to reinvent the industry. But whenever that realization came, Moore grabbed it quickly and he didn't disappoint at all.

I don't watch a lot of television. For one thing, I don't have a lot of time. Secondly, I think a lot of what's on television these days is rubbish. There are a few shows I wish I had a chance to watch more, like "Lost" and "Alias," but I do try to catch series and such that I feel are quality programming. Sadly, most of those series are on premium cable.

While I have always declared different shows as the best in their genre ... it's very rare that I will come out and say "Best show in television." And I have never, ever, ever said that of a science-fiction show.

But "Battlestar Galactica" is more than science-fiction. Spaceships, evil robots -- those are all backdrop. The true story of "Galactica" is the characters, the writing, the directing, the music. It's almost like Moore and Co. weren't looking to produce a weekly episode -- they were working to produce a piece of art each and every time. And to me, they've totally succeeded.

My friends and co-workers are very tired of me talking about this show so much. That's all I've been doing ... especially as we got closer and closer to the American premiere. I just can't shut up about it, and when you get a chance to see the rest of the first season, you will understand why.

What really blows is that a decision is going to be made before Americans and Canadians even get a chance to see half the season. Yeah, it takes a while to develop the characters in the beginning -- and yes, there is still some character building that has to take place post-miniseries -- but each episode gets better and better and better. The story isn't stalled ... we really move, and we move fast.

If you saw the entire season, you would be begging for more, too. No, I didn't fall into the cliffhanger trap. I know how these things work ... but I still want more BSG. I want to know what's going to happen next. I want to see more of my characters, more of my storylines, more of the writing and directing that I like to watch.

I am one viewer, a viewer who would like to go to Temple on Friday night. Who would like to go out afterward. Who would like to do things that people normally do on the weekends. But as long as BSG is on the air, God and my Friday night social life are going to have to wait.

So, Sci-Fi Channel, NBC Universal, and anyone else who is involved in this decision ... RENEW THIS SHOW.

As much as I love the fans of "Farscape" (and the show they love so passionately), I don't want to feel like they do. I don't want to be so in love with a show that I am heartbroken when it's yanked from me while rubbish like "Andromeda" -- which doesn't even deserve Gene Roddenberry's name attached to it -- remains on the air.

Don't frak the fans again. Do the right thing. Renew this series ... and renew it now. It is the best show on television, and it must remain.

Michael Hinman is the founder and news coordinator of Airlock Alpha. He writes out of Orlando, Fla., and can be reached at michael@airlockalpha.com.