Tripping the Rift: People: Smith N. Wesson TV Show

Tripping the Rift: People: Smith N. Wesson

Smith N Weeson was the governor of Harmonia 7. He’s the man who led the once peaceful world through an infinite downward spiral of paranoia, violence and suffering. 

Tripping the Rift: Cultures: Peaceniks TV Show

Tripping the Rift: Cultures: Peaceniks

The Peaceniks are the counter-culture rebels of the planet Harmonia 7.  The rag tag group of teenagers and liberal arts majors were are led by Aidan Wesson, son of planetary Governor Smith Wesson.

Futurama: People: Zapp Brannigan TV Show

Futurama: People: Zapp Brannigan

Captain. Hero. Lover. Gifted. Handsome. Extraordinary Lover. That’s the way Zapp Brannigan would describe himself to most people. Those people wouldn’t be so charitable. In fact, those people would describe the captain of the Nimbus as an insensitive, ignorant, pompous jerk.

Tripping the Rift: Cultures: Harmonia 7 TV Show

Tripping the Rift: Cultures: Harmonia 7

Since science fiction worlds are never diverse and only single mindedly represent one view point, then magnify it a thousand fold, this world can only have one trait: and that is to be the trigger happy, gun slingin’ planet.

Futurama: S01E03: I, Roommate TV Show

Futurama: S01E03: I, Roommate

So that’s it folks. It was quick episode with very little sci fi or plot. But FOX got just what they wanted and in the Future they were careful what they wished for with Futurama. Another random FYI, is that Bender’s room number 0101000 is 40 in base two.

Futurama: Cultures: Decapodians TV Show

Futurama: Cultures: Decapodians

We first see Decapod 10 when Zoidberg and the crew return to his home world 
so he can participate in the mating frenzy.

Futurama: People: Hermes Conrad TV Show

Futurama: People: Hermes Conrad

Personal information about Hermes may be few and far between, but we have
been let in on a few things in the course of the show. We know he’s a Jamaican former Olympic limbo contender, a born bureaucrat, husband to LaBarbara and father to Dwight.

Futurama: S01E02: The Series has Landed TV Show

Futurama: S01E02: The Series has Landed

One of the difficult things about a writing a review for an older episode is trying to put everything in perspective. No matter what show, early episodes usually suck when compared with material found in later seasons.

Futurama: People: Kif Kroker TV Show

Futurama: People: Kif Kroker

Kif Kroker is the long-suffering first officer of the Nimbus and Amy Wong’s main man. He also happens to be a gangly green amphibian.

Futurama: People: Amy Wong TV Show

Futurama: People: Amy Wong

Amy spends her most of her time getting involved in different adventures of the crew. She basically serves as some comic relief when Bender just won’t do. The rest of her time is spent bragging about her cuteness or slipping on something and hitting the floor.

Futurama: S01E01: Space Pilot 3000 TV Show

Futurama: S01E01: Space Pilot 3000

Time to introduce Fry, a twenty something pizza delivery boy with nothing to live for. He’s just been dumped by his live-in-girlfriend and is stuck delivering pizza’s on New Years Eve 1999. And I thought New Years 99 sucked for me…

Tripping the Rift: S01E10: Aliens, Guns, and a Monkey TV Show

Tripping the Rift: S01E10: Aliens, Guns, and a Monkey

One of the strong points to this episode was that it returned to some of its more computer short roots. Most obviously by changing the opening credits a tad. Much like the computer short, the final “t” in Rift fell over in the final seconds of the intro.

Crusade: People: Dr. Sara Chambers TV Show

Crusade: People: Dr. Sara Chambers

Dr.Dr. Sara Chambers is the chief medical officer aboard the Excalibur. In the fake pilot episode “War Zone” we are told that she is in charge of a team of elite doctors and scientists who will do research on the ship. But that was the last we ever saw of that elite medical staff. In the

Crusade: People: Lt. John Matheson TV Show

Crusade: People: Lt. John Matheson

Lt. John Matheson is the first officer on the Excalibur, and the first telepath in Earth Force. He’s a beacon of hope to teeps everywhere who wanted to have a “normal” job, instead of working for the Psi Corps. 

Crusade: People: Galen TV Show

Crusade: People: Galen

Galen is the vagabond techno-mage and all around git who helps out the crew of the Excalibur from time to time.

Tripping the Rift: S01E08: Power to the Peephole TV Show

Tripping the Rift: S01E08: Power to the Peephole

I think I set myself up for a disappointment with this episode. When I read the synopsis, I expected a lot of Florida 2000 election jokes. But instead this episode was mostly filled with dated election and Monica Lewinsky jokes that might have been funny a few years ago, but today barely even get a smile.

Futurama: S01E13: Fry and the Slurm Factory TV Show

Futurama: S01E13: Fry and the Slurm Factory

Nice closer for the first season, even though it aired as a second season show. It illustrates the tone of the whole series as the creators explained the original concept.

Crusade: People: Dureena Nafeel TV Show

Crusade: People: Dureena Nafeel

Dureena Nafeel is the Excalibur’s resident thief, pick pocket, lock pick, and general underworld rat. She was enslaved and taken from her homeworld at an early age, and later escaped to freedom.

Crusade: S01E07: Each Night I Dream of Home TV Show

Crusade: S01E07: Each Night I Dream of Home

The Excalibur is ordered to rendezvous with an Earth Force destroyer in the middle of nowhere. At which point they will take on two passengers and then proceed with new orders.

Futurama: S01E5: Fear of a Bot Planet TV Show

Futurama: S01E5: Fear of a Bot Planet

It’s a little trite, I know! I really think the powers that be who worked on the show were trying to fit into their 7:30 p.m. time slot, though that’s never when they intended Futurama to be shown.