To boldly go but not as often

Kimberley woke up at 3.15am this morning.  Altaa brought the distressed one from her cot into our bed.  As she settled between us, she turned to me and said, "Monsters in the cot."  Really?  Shit!  With my mouth parched by sleep, I of course did not share these thoughts with her at her disturbing statement.  On reflection, I regularly call her a little monster and she may have been referring to the toys in her bed rather than a cluster of malevolent homunculi.
Altaa thought differently.  Drawing on her nightmare - coincidence or not - after watching Frozen with us, possibly from the abominable snowman, she suggested that the aliens in Star Trek: The Next Generation were of sufficient distinctiveness as to unnerve her subconscious.  I still remember being five years old and fearing the appearance of Darth Vader's visage rise up in the toilet window when I made a night time excursion to the water closet - this deriving from a Universal film.
SyFy run a Star Trek: TNG episode in order almost every weekday night from 7 pm.  Star Trek: Voyager is from an hour earlier but it never formed a great part of my 1990s experience.  Now I get a chance to relive part of that and witness the episodes I missed or partially saw.  Kimberley gets decanted into her bedtime routine around 8 pm but before had often watched it with me.  No more it seems and I'll have to watch on SyFy+1(hr).
Though I may be cutting down on my consumption.  Recently, I came across the episode Cause and Effect which reignited my interest in seeing Star Trek: TNG again, where the Enterprise explodes several times.  SyFy is similar in being on a time loop - when it gets to the final installment of series seven, it goes right back to the pilot of the first series again, ad infinitum.  So I am back to the spot I was last year in the midst of series five (with the overall narrative getting ever stronger).  It was a little cheeky of SyFy to refer to Unification, featuring Leonard Nimoy's cameo as Spock in TNG, as a tribute to Nimoy, when it was a pre-arranged order of sequence that would have occurred had Nimoy died or not.  Interestingly, Unification [Part] I actually had an in memoriam message lamenting the passing of Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek's creator, who had died shortly before the original broadcast of the episode.  Therefore, it was an odd counterpoint to Nimoy's demise.