How Infomercials are like Star-Trek

Here’s my ba-doom-ching submission for today.
As I was sitting in the studios of home.fm, flipping through the stations on the only TV equipped with cable, I came across an infomercial for the Space Bag on channel 61 and a rerun of the classic Star Trek on 62. I couldn’t help but identify the similarities between the shows:

Cardboard Sets
Wooden acting with over-response to stimulus
Seems too good to be true (George Foreman grill excluded)
On at roughly the same time (between the cherished 2AM-6AM window)
Both contain copious amounts of Shatner
You don’t want to admit to anyone that you actually stopped to watch it
Scientist-like characters with shady credentials speaking lingo that “we just wouldn’t understand”
Seems unbelievable, at least for the first 20 minutes. Then you’re really thinking about what it would be like to have your own Transporter/Ginsu Knife

Am I missing any?

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