Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that Johno at the Ministry of Minor Perfidy has declared the new SciFi series Battlestar Glactica the best scifi show EVAR. (And possibly the best show on TV.)

It is funny that Johno should bring this up. The Air Marshal and your Maximum Leader were talking about this show on Saturday. We were talking about the season finale on Friday night. It was a very compelling piece of TV. Indeed, almost all of the programs have been very compelling.

But your Maximum Leader feels much the same towards Battlestar Galactica as he did towards the first few years of “The West Wing.” The feeling can be encapuslated in the phrase, “I love it, but it drives me crazy.”

You see, your Maximum Leader (like Buckethead from the M of MP) believes that the writers of Galactica are lefty commie pinko ideologues who veil their current affairs critiques in the scifi world. (A trait not that unusual in scifi in general.) In this respect Battlestar is similar to The West Wing. The agenda is just one with which your Maximum Leader cannot agree.

But the show is so damned well written and well acted plus the story-lines compelling (if disagreeable). Your Maximum Leader sometimes wants to puke watching the show - but prbably for different reasons than Johno.

(And you know something… Tricia Helfer is damned attractive. So is Grace Park.)

Battlestar is a great program. Certainly it is deserving of being included in the Pantheon of great SciFi TV series. But your Maximum Leader still maintains that (viewing the body of work as a whole) the greatest TV show in the history of the medium is “The Simpsons.” Which is followed by “Your Show of Shows” with Sid Ceasar.

Carry on.