Though the original series of Star Trek, which premiered in 1966, only ran for three short seasons (its ratings, believe it or not, were terrible) its fantastical adventures combined with its earnest humanity has earned it generations of loyal fans.
Still, they variously described the experience of beginning with the park's inner narrative workings as exhausting, a great adventure, and a terrible mistake.
Luckily, the Giant Peach turns up and rescues him from his terrible fate and a whole new adventure begins.
The terrible thing is we had our adventures on the moon and then someone invented the space shuttle, which is a bore.
"I remember swearing what the old adventure stories would call a terrible oath to do something," he told me.
Disgusted bookies at rival companies posted notes on Internet forums saying Turner was a terrible businessman because he was off on an adventure rather than at his desk during one of the busiest betting times of the year.
Flora's favorites are "The Illuminated Adventures of the Amazing Incandesto!" and its companion, "Terrible Things Can Happen to You!" She lives by advice gleaned from their pages.
"Rio 2's" music might even save the 3-D animated action-adventure about endangered South American blue macaws from the terrible 2s that affect so many sequels.
Jimmy Burns, reviewing the book for the Financial Times, speculated that it was plausible that "MI6's senior management realised they had made a terrible mistake in recruiting someone who thought that espionage was just one big adventure".
The great thing about "The Adventures of Tintin" is that it never stops moving and the terrible thing about it is that it never stops moving.
