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Mary Beth-I just have to wonder, did you make up all those jokes, or is it one of those chain e-mail joke lists?
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Originally posted by Bonnee:
A great list Lee, although I would want to insist that Maury Chaykin should be more noted for his work with Atom Egoyan than Paul Donovan. Both he and MM have worked with one of Canada’s great directors in so called art films – Speaking Parts (MM of course), The Adjustor and Sweet Hereafter(MC). Its hard to believe, for example, that the actor who played Pa and Vinnie could be so great and unsettling in the Adjustor: one of the few Egoyan films where you mostly feel troubled by the performance of the actor. (Egoyan also wanted him for Exotica, but he was unavailable at the time). He steals the Adjustor, and towers over everyone else on this list in an already remarkable and disquieting film (excepting Hauer in Bladerunner, perhaps).
The list was compiled from things either i had seen or were popular or famous. I didn’t consider [i]The Adjustor[/i] notable because it is not well known in the United States, whereas [i]Def-Con 4[/i] has a significant cult following. I wouldn’t think that or [i]Blade Runner[/i] qualify as remarkable films, since very few people have seen [i]Blade Runner[/i] and I think significantly fewer enjoyed it.
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Originally posted by Aleck:
Here are some details you missed, DT.Barry Bostwick, Thodin in [i]I Worship His Shadow[/i], is an accomplished stage actor (he originated the role of Danny Zuko in the musical [i]Grease[/i]) and veteran of numerous film and TV projects. Best-known today for his role as the mayor of NYC in [i]Spin City[/i], he’s portrayed the first president of the US in two [i]George Washington[/i] mini-series (which, along with his roles in such mini-series as [i]Scruples[/i] and [i]A Woman of Substance[/i], cemented his title of “King of the Mini-Series”), narrated [i]Fantastic Planet[/i], and is perhaps best-known for his role as Brad Majors in the perennial midnight-movie hit [i]The Rocky Horror Picture Show[/i], where he co-starred with Tim Curry (in the role of Frank N. Furter), later to portray Poet Man in [i]Super Nova[/i].
Like I said, Tim Curry has a been in a lot of horror, and I didn’t feel like listing every B-grade cult film he was in. The same goes for Rutger Hauer.
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Ralph Brown, who portrayed Duke in Season 3, has had a number of notable supporting roles. Included are [i]Withnail and I[/i] (as Danny), [i]Buster[/i] (as Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs), [i]Alien3[/i] (as Aaron), [i]Wayne’s World 2[/i] (as the world’s greatest roadie, Del Preston) and [i]Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace[/i] (as Ric Olie).
I am really surprised I missed Ric Olié. I just never made the connection. For some peculiar reason, the Star Wars Insider article on Ralph Brown neglected to mention his work on [i]Lexx[/i], even though I believe the third season was filmed before that was published. By the way, rumor has it that Ralph Brown will be returning for [i]Star Wars[/i]: Episode III, though unfortunately it seems he won’t be appearing in the fourth season of [i]Lexx[/i].
Most importantly, (with the help of Aleck) I’ve been able to connect [i]Lexx[/i] with all 3 members of the Holy Sci-Fi Trinity ([i]Star Wars[/i], [i]Star Trek[/i], and [i]Doctor Who[/i]). Plus the original 790 operated a number of puppets designed by Brian Froud! Okay, that’s not exactly something anyone’s going to recognize him in.
The first person I saw on [i]Lexx[/i] that I recognized was Wayne Robson. He’s almost certainly the most notable T.V. personality to guest star on [i]Lexx[/i], considering the immense popularity of [i]Red Green[/i] in both Canada and the U.S. Actually, when I saw [i]Nook[/i] for the first time, I thought I recognized 790’s voice as that of Nick Bakay (the voice of Salem the cat on [i]Sabrina[/i]), but a look at the credits discredited that identification. And I recognized the government agent in [i]Prime Ridge[/i] as one of the shadowy figures on [i]The X-Files[/i], I just had to look in “Trust No One” to recall which.
Just one final note: Fruitcake running around in a uniform with a gun is a humorous image. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I just got around to reading the Jeffrey Hirschfield interview, and I thought it was great! He confirmed 2 of my theories/opinions:
1. [i]Lexx[/i] is (in part) an allegory
2. Season three was lousy and took the show in the wrong direction
Plus I juat love 790, and the episodes with Hirschfield writing credits tend to be better than the show’s average.
And yeah, if I were his son I think I’d have a lot to be afraid of. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by FX:
okay, now who is the one ‘recurring’ character who has appeared in all four series, erm seasons, of lexx? [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Giggerota/Queen/Genevieve G. Rota.
April 17, 1983.
I first came to the (original) SadBoard 2 days before my 17th birthday.
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
[i] Being married to a Rooskie, I’m very partial to a shot of Siberian Vodka from time to time (or at least when I can get my grubby hands on some [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img][/i]
“‘Twas inwented by little old lady outside of Moscow.” (figure out where that quote is from [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] )
I know, the quality of writing isn’t that great. That was the first real story I’d written. It appeared in [i]The Devil’s Diary[/i], a publication of my high school. I hope some day to get some of my sci-fi published professionally.
The original ending had the illusion destroyed when Gêkí killed the doctor. He was revealed to be some kind of biomechanical thing, and the setting changed to a high-tech dungeon in the forty sixth century. But I changed the ending so the final version is open to multiple interpretations.
The Yün Siph are something I created for something else and pulled for the short story. They appear in a novel I’ve been working on for a while, in the context of something real.
I’m glad you people like it.
I think ending the run of [i]The X-Files[/i] is a good idea. And I wouldn’t worry about [i]Family Guy[/i], it gets cancelled all the time. But [i]The Tick[/i] was just starting to get good! And unless I’m mistaken, [i]Futurama[/i] is pretty popular. I don’t think cancelling comedies of that caliber is a good move for Fox.
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Originally posted by Boodlums:
Oh I’m too tired — forgot to speak of this ep.
I liked most of it, for the same reasons others have mentioned. And yeah, Kai’s “dysfunction” was hilarious. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]Nice eyecandy, too — who played Piffilina? Laura Plant or something? I didn’t quite catch it, and couldn’t find any listing on IMDb.com resembling it.
And Britt Ekland like we’ve never seen her before. ROFL. I almost called my mom to say “Wanna see Britt Ekland like you’ve never seen her before?” but my mom’s got better things to do (I suppose I do too, but I’m a type 13 person. LOL).
What has Britt Ekland been in? I know Stephen McHattie was the Red-Haired Man on [i]The X-Files[/i].
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Originally posted by mary beth:
[img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] DT why do you think it is lame? and how did you come up with the name? why the number 5? [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
In one of my first posts on the new board, I jokingly suggested the jokers section be called “Laughterhouse-Five.” To my surprise, someone actually changed it the next day. [i]Slaughterhouse-Five[/i] is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Originally posted by mary beth:
hey DT nice to see you here in this forum. and i have to say *giggle* you do have a sense of humor! please let me know what you think about my grandmothers jokes that i have been posting, if you have time. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I’ve been known to write humorous things on the board. Rarely anything genuinely funny, though.
I don’t post here because people rarely come here. If I want someone to actually read my [i]Lexx[/i] humor, I post it on the [i]Lexx[/i] forum.
Actually, I was the one who named this forum. Pretty lame, eh?
Yeah, I brought that up a while back but nobody responded. The Cluster and the Divine Order both seem to be named after famous books as well.
I thought it was a pretty good episode. I mean, it was no [i]Texx Lexx[/i], but it was better than, [i]Stan Down[/i], better than [i]The Rock[/i], and better than [i]Bad Carrot[/i].
There was a little too much silliness, and some grossness. But we got to see an old friend (E. J. Moss), and a great gun battle. The plot itself was fairly good, another episode illustrating the decline of western society, and how all anybody thinks about now is sex and violence.
I liked Cleasby. How even though everybody hates him he’s really the most normal person in town. Then he pulled out a gun. He’s kinda like the Wozard: seems like a great guy ’til he shows up with weapons strapped to himself. Then he had sex with that bitch, really didn’t like that.
I hope Agent Moss (is that his name?) becomes a regular character. A future episode is titled [i]Moss[/i], so that implies at least one future appearance. He could be a better continuing enemy than Prince. But what was with the dice? And what was with the grass, for that matter? And the beef? And the guns? It seems like there are a lot of questions that need answering.
And Xev as a stress counselor was just disturbing. I hope she’s lost that job.
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Originally posted by Aurora:
Probably a premonition. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Yes, maybe the Insects are going to invade Earth, and you’re seeing what happened in the last cycle of time. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
My favorite is The Time Prophet’s Song. I Must Leave is really good, though.
My least favorite is Dull, Dull, Dull (I left that one off my C.D. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ).
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
Oh, dear. I think you’ve missed the entire point.A) Fun, you remember fun, don’t you? A past time to make one giggle and smile?
B) Blowing off steam with said fun and/or silliness. Everyday life has it’s little stresses and sometimes being silly helps one loosen ones spincter. (Saddy, please get that spell checker going!)
C) This is my idea of fun/silliness.
Notice, the thread was started in SciFi angst, notice that people feel a small amount of frustration at times about WHATEVER and like to blow off steam, further notice I’m over explaining …I don’t need to explain this. Join in the fun or don’t, it’s your choice. Either you get it or you don’t.
Blowing off steam, eh? Well how’s this. I have to write a long paper in 2 nights because the scatterbrained foreigner who teaches my lit class didn’t tell us the deadline until yesterday. And for philosophy I have to read and write a response on a something written by some God damn hippy that’s boring as hell and doesn’t make any sense. And my roommate keeps playing Metallica at max volume while I’m trying to get my work done. And it’s Valentine’s Day again and I still have no girlfriend. And there are so many idiots in the world, and they never listen to people who know what the hell is going on. It all just makes me want to get a trenchcoat and a semiautomatic and show all these people what I really think of them.
The Darkness reigns supreme. And we must combat the Darkness. Because the Darkness obscures the Light. And the Light is the source of true advancement. Because the Wheel is always turning. And those who linger in the Darkness will be left behind with the old Cycles. And ever toward Brightness shall the Light take us!
How’s that for letting off steam??!!?
I’m okay now.
That’s interesting. When one gets very into a fantasy universe, it’s very common for elements of it to surface in their dreams. One of the other message board I go to has 3 threads devoted to dreams related to the subject matter, amounting to like 100 posts.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by “a presentation of ‘Divine Shadow’ symbols.” Could you elaborate? Just curious.
Okay, I’ll take some time out of my busy day to continue the story.
By the way, If that thing you were describing was supposed to be a Dalek, I should point out that Daleks are neither robots nor lumbering. Daleks are tentacled green mutants that live inside 1.5 meter tall armored mechanical transports that look like this:
[img]http://www.dalekchess.org/RenegadeDalek.jpg[/img]
Dalek machines have no legs (with the exception of the rare Spider Daleks), but rather glide along even surfaces on a magnetized base. As its name would suggest, DalekTek790 utilizes the basic Dalek chassis (maybe sometime I’ll send you a picture of DalekTek790).
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[b]Hypatia and Squish discover an important clue[/b]
“Are you sure this Doctor person can help us?” Squish asked his companion. “I mean, he must be 750 years old, are you sure he still has his wits?”
“He may not be as sharp as he used to be,” Hypatia replied, “but he’s one of the greatest minds in the Universe. Trust me.”
“I suppose you know him better than I do.”
“Just let me do the talking, and don’t make any sudden moves.”[b]Later, in the Inner Sanctum on Gallifrey[/b]
[img]http://www.shillpages.com/dw/pertwj22.jpg[/img]
“Can you tell us something about the Daleks, Doctor?” Hypatia asked the Ogygian Time Lord.
“The Daleks,” the Doctor paused for a second, lost in thought. “I had never heard of the Daleks before I encountered them for the first time on their home planet of Skaro. It was a dead planet, with petrified forests, radioactive swamps, and some metal monster statue thing, we never really figured out what was up with that…”[b]Fifteen minutes and several pints later[/b]
“…So then I said to Gorbechev, ‘I don’t care what you say about Oswald, I was on the grassy knoll at the time, and I saw the whole thing. And you know that Rasputin guy you thought was so neat? Well, that was me.’…”
“Is this going anywhere?” Squish finally asked, annoyed.
“…So anyway, to make a long story short, I bought the magazine.”
“That wasn’t a story!” Squish shrieked. “That was just a bunch of random anecdotes jumbled together in a haphazard and incoherent manner that has no relevance to anything.”
“That’s what they said about The Five Doctors. And look at it now!”
The angry Cluster Lizard continued. “…And it doesn’t tell us anything about the Daleks.”
“Settle down, Squishy,” Hypatia said calmly. “I’ll handle this.” She turned to the Doctor. “Now, we’re fighting DalekTek790, who has improved himself with Dalek D.N.A. Rumor has it that he has a weakness, we thought if you told us any possible weaknesses the Daleks might have, it could apply to DalekTek790.”
“Very well, Leela,” the Time lord obliged.
“I’m Hypatia.”
“Don’t talk to me like that, Leela. I don’t know much about DalekTek790, but I’ll tell you all I know about the Daleks’ weaknesses. For starters, they’ve tried to invade Earth seven times, but have been repelled each time. Or was it eight? No, seven, the Peter Cushing movies don’t count. Say, did any of you see that movie where Peter Cushing is on that island fighting Blobs, only they’re not Blobs like Blob-Blobs, they’re more like Blobs, and they have spaghetti…”
“Stop digressing, you dumb, stupid geezer!” Hypatia yelled, losing her cool.”
“Quiet, Tegan. The reason they’re always repelled is because they can’t predict how humans, or Gallifreyans, or any other race with emotions would act in a certain situation without actually thinking like them. To try to predict human behavior, they extracted what they called the Human Factor, and injected it into Daleks. Only the humanized Daleks were too human, so they revolted and caused the second Dalek Civil War, and a couple model shots later the Dalek Empire was destroyed.”
“So DalekTek790’s weakness is that he can’t comprehend human behavior?” Squish asked, trying to make sense of what the drunken, senile old alien had been saying.
“Oh, I wouldn’t call DalekTek790 a he,” the Doctor said knowingly. “It’s more of an it. Not really male or female. Like Kamelion. Kamelion was a thing, but would take on female when I asked it…”
“How can we defeat DalekTek790?” Hypatia asked.
“Did you try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow?”
“What’s a neutron flow?”
“I don’t even know anymore,” the Doctor admitted, hanging his head in shame.
“What do you know about DalekTek790?”
The Time Lord perked up. “Well, I’m mainly a Dalek expert. I only encountered DalekTek790 a couple times. It never managed to drink my essence, since I only die when the B.B.C. decides to change actors. And it never drank the essence of any of my companions, even though it had a gazillion chances. It mainly just killed blokes on space ships that had three lines before, then me and whichever companion I was travelling with would find it right as the dead bloke’s crewmates did, and they would blame us for the death and think we were spies and stowaways, so the inept guards would be guarding me, but I would escape, and when they were all running up and down corridors I would stand in an indentation and wait for one to run by, then knock them out with my Venusian akido and take their gun…”
Hypatia could see this wasn’t going anywhere productive. “Back to what you said before you degenerated into ramblings. Didn’t you think it was odd that DalekTek790 never attacked any of your companions? Aren’t they usually incredibly naïve and inept and easy targets for monsters?”
“I don’t know. I figured it was just lousy writing. The same reason why my companions can trip over the only rock on a planet and twist their ankle, and why all guards in the universe are incompetent and have no peripheral vision, and why Daleks would charge at me screaming but not a actually shoot at me until it was too late…”
“Okay, this is all fascinating…” Hypatia began.
“Now I suppose you want me to get you back to Alzarius?” the Doctor said, forgetting again who he was talking to.
“No, thank you,” Hypatia responded politely. “Is there anything else of importance you have to say?”
“Klokleda partha menin klatch, haroon, haroon, harooon.”
“I think we should go,” Hypatia said to Squish.[b]Thus ends this episode of adventure[/b]
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(this is probably the last segment I’ll write for a while)
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, [i]The Daleks[/i]: Episode 4-[i]The Ambush[/i]
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, [i]The Dark Crystal[/i]
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i]
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[b]Lexx 1: Super Nova[/b] (weak)
[b]Lexx 2: Love Grows[/b] (took half the episode to get to the real plot, and even then it was lame)
[b]Lexx 3: The Beach[/b] (destroyed the season that preceded it)
[b]Lexx 4: Stan Down[/b] (too silly, plus it didn’t seem to advance the story arc)
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Originally posted by Hypatia:
F**k midterms, I’ll add another paragraph:“So where is this Doctor” Squishy asked. Hypatia stared at him. In spite of the pink spandex, he really was quite cute. She shook her head, telling herself to concentrate. Pulling out the handset for her GPS, she said “18 Km due west. If we hurry, we can reach him before nightfall.”
“And if there are no problems with robots or monsters” Squishy added.
As if to illustrate his point, they heard a loud CRASH.
The metal robot was lumbering towards them, with talons outstretched.
“It can’t attack us both! Run!” Hypatia screamed, pushing Squishy out of the way.
She aimed her shotgun and pulled the trigger……
Right, back to naming polyatomic ions [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
You’re to midterms already? I just started my new semester, but I’ve already been given a big writing assignment in interpretation of literature with an unreasonable deadline. So I’ve been working on that, taking periodic breaks to maintain my sanity. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Oh, and I love chemistry. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t’ve joined this crazy adventure game (or whatever this is). I typed that first post on impulse, then tried to follow up. My mind doesn’t operate on the same wavelength as you two’s. And this is going into a really different direction than I had in mind (this is why I wasn’t a good dungeon master). [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] Maybe I’ll hire Aleck to write for my character. Right now I think I’ll do my best to keep up with this insanity. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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DalekTek790 remained calm. [i]If[/i] Hypatia were to figure out why it had retreated from her when it had the perfect opportunity to drink her essence, to deduce what separated her from the many world leaders DalekTek790 had vanquished without hesitation; and [i]if[/i] she could use that data to determine the cyborg’s weakness, then [i]maybe[/i] she could be find a way to exploit that weakness to defeat it. But its Dalek instincts told it that a being as intellectually inferior and emotionally distracted as a human would be unable to make all those steps before it faced her again, as it had planned. The only way the odds of her reaching that epiphany could be increased would be [i]if[/i] she were to contact its old nemesis, an astronomically improbable turn of events. And DalekTek790’s logic circuits, after analyzing the possible scenarios meticulously, had come to the conclusion that their second meeting would end with the successful extraction of Hypatia’s essence. But there were lingering doubts…
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, [i]The Daleks[/i]: Episode 4-[i]The Ambush[/i]
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, [i]The Dark Crystal[/i]
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i]
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I meant to type Sinclair, not Sheridan. The sequel of sorts to [i]Babylon Squared[/i], [i]War Without End[/i] (parts 1 and 2) actually revealed that Sinclair, Sheridan, and Delenn are all the One (Entil’Zha). Sinclair is the One Who Was, Sheridan is the One Who Is, and Delenn is the One Who Will Be.
Vir couldn’t imagine himself killing Carthagia either!
This question actually came up before on this board. Darth Maul has been established to be an Iridonian Zabrak.
I for one don’t see the logic in all this Wesley-bashing. But it is true that a lot of fans don’t like Wesley Crusher-style characters (look at all the Adric-bashers!). I think he was a good character, and I’m glad they’re finally working him into one of the movies.
Wesley’s part in the Kolwood starburst incident in [i]The First Duty[/i] was written in to sort of balance out his character, so he didn’t appear to be just a goody-two-shoes boy genius. It made the character seem more human by showing that he too was reckless.
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Originally posted by Hypatia:
There was only one thing to do. Hypatia stepped into her modified lusticon, and added the right amount of clusterlizard DNA, ala Xev. Stepping out, Hypatia paused to look at her reflection.“That’s one way to lose that last 5 pounds” she grinned. But more importantly, she was now part clusterlizard.
After supervising the evacuation of her lab to the secret bases on Europa, Mars, and the other top secret place, Hypatia stepped into her helicopter, and headed off to discuss Squishy’s terms.
Suddenly, a metal monster with taloned appendages and a skull-like robot head appeared,
“You are Hy-pat-i-a. You are the dom-i-nant life form on this plan-et. I have come for your es-sence.”
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, [i]The Daleks[/i]: Episode 4-[i]The Ambush[/i]
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, [i]The Dark Crystal[/i]
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i]
My favorite scene was in [i]Babylon Squared[/i] when Zathras is trapped under the beam after helping the heroes, and is about to die. I’m thinking “Oh, poor Zathras.” Then we see too boots appear by his head. It is THE ONE. “Aah. Zathras knew. Zathras knew you would come.” Then a few seconds later the One removes his helmet to reveal…Sheridan! “I tried to do something. I tried to warn them of what was coming. But it all happened just the way I remember.”
DalekTek790 was a once human. He was one of millions who had cubes of cerebral tissue sliced out of their brains under Project Social Security Solution, and was made into a robot drone to work on the petroleum mines of Ur, which were established after Earth’s oil reserves were depleted when the Middle East was nuked on the day the president pushed all of the buttons on his laptop, sure that one of them could get him on the Internet (which, unbeknownst to him, had been taken away by its inventor when he was defeated in the presidential race).
On Ur, distillation drone 790 was modified by the techno-shaman skekTek to distill and absorb the essence (thoughts, memories, everything) from other life forms as retaliation for the ethnic cleansing of his people which took place when the president hit ctrl+alt+del. 790 promptly drained the essence of skekTek and assimilated his body. The resulting being, calling itself “Tek790,” reconstituted an ice machine into a working stargate and transported itself to Earth, thirsty for new essence.
Tek790’s human brain cube had acquired virtually infinite knowledge from its prey, but, due to the fact that the parts of the brain governing emotion, ethics, and other qualities that make humans human, combined with the maddening effect of the memories of thousands of beings whose essence it had absorbed, had driven the cyborg half-insane (personality type 13: mad scientist, to be exact). It returned to Earth to drink the essence of the president, but found that a new order had been formed, and the president that had disembodied its one component and destroyed the civilization of its other component was no longer in power.
By assimilating mechanical components and mutant D.N.A. from the battered war machines of a defeated terrorist group from Skaro and covering its vulnerable organic components with polycarbide armor, it became DalekTek790. Provided its brain cube was not tampered with, and its programming not altered, there was nothing stopping DalekTek790 from its goal: the absorption of the essence of all sentient beings on Earth!
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Originally posted by Hypatia:
Get your hands off him!Trollop. [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by NB1:
Hey! At least I’m buying him dinner first!!! And I respect Squishy for his mind, and that attractive top-knot!! I would never touch him below his top-knot, (without his lizardly permission!!!Hussey!! [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by FX:
a polite hussey er trollop no less! [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] well, as senior strumpet, i vote that we auction squishy off to the highest bidder, and give the proceeds to charity…erm, of course, everyone on this board seems to be somewhat financially embarassed, but it was a thought [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Aurora:
Nope, this is not settled yet! Squishums, I have an enourmous cat and I’ll feed him up just for you. I’ll take you everywhere with me and you can eat anyone who’s in front of me in a line (do Brits call it a cue?), and anyone who disses Lexx.
Squish, [i]how[/i] is it that you have [b]four[/b] chicks fighting over you!?! What is your secret?!? If you tell me how you do it, I promise I won’t disagree with you ever again. I’ll even act insane like you want. [b]I MUST KNOW![/b] [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Squishy:
I believe the a Roman witch cursed this country, Ice cannot survive when it reaches the shores of England.
It was Hypatia! If I remember correctly she was burned for witchcraft (though I think she was Greek, not Roman, the name’s Greek at least).
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Originally posted by Squishy:
The Squish Liberation Army may be small in comparison, but Prez Hypatia has overlooked one small detail, and that is that they know Monty Python jokes and more importantly the funniest joke in history…and believe me it does kill.
Hey, let’s not forget who first brought Monty Python jokes into this thread. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Now, to reiterate: [b]YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL COMPLETELY INSANE![/b] What’s worse, your insanity seems to be contagious, like those telepathic asylum inmates in [i]The Martian Chronicles[/i]. It’s starting to rub off on [b]me[/b]. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Squishy:
Everywhere?…Squishy blushes!!!, and I regret the tea and snowballs incident, except that I can’t remember it!!!, besides Squishy does not believe that he has ever had an argument with the lovely Hypatia.
That would be a reference to the Boston Massacre and Tea Party. Didn’t you learn about that? Or do British schools tell a different story. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
If you mean the latin phrase muliebris arcanus, then I think that translates as “secret women”.
A book I read a while back described some cultural nuance as being an “[i]arcanus muliebribus[/i].” I looked that up in my Latin dictionary and it translated as “womens’ secret.” It seemed like a good title. Maybe one day I’ll actually get around to writing that. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
C’mon! It has the best line in all of [i]Star Trek[/i] history:“Brain? What is brain?”
I want a .wav file of that really badly!
Kara the Eymorg’s two big lines in that episode are the oft quoted “Brain. Brain. What is brain?” and “I know nothing of brain!” (you’re telling us [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ). I actually searched for a sound file for one of those the other day but couldn’t find any. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
You might have noticed that the Controller in [i]Spock’s Brain[/i] looked exactly the same (down to the way the lights blinked) as Gary Seven’s computer in [i]Assignment: Earth[/i]. Another obvious equipment reuse was the remote control for the brainless Spock, which was clearly one of the tricorders from [i]The Cage[/i] (and consequently [i]The Menagerie[/i] part 1). So Dr. McCoy is controlling Spock with an obsolete tricorder! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] Also, the sound of the pain units is the same sound effect as when Trelane used his powers in [i]The Squire of Gothos[/i], which had the actress who played Isis (when she briefly appeared as a woman) in [i]Assignment: Earth[/i] providing her voice for Trelane’s mother. But now I’m way off topic.
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[i]Eeeee-Tellykelly![/i]
This is quite possibly the most bizarre thread this message board has ever contained. I mean, it’s reads like an online Rifts campaign. [b]How did this whole thing get started?[/b] [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Anyway, the other Yün Siph and I are concerned that you may be losing your grip on reality. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Ah, Squishy, you are the sweetest cluster lizard in the two universes…. If we ever meet, I am going to buy you a tall drink and a nice dinner…And you can sit on my lap while you eat it and I’ll pet your top-knot! [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Hey! No P.D.A.s on the SadBoard.
Kidding. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Aleck:
Thing is, it wasn’t even that he stumbled on a good idea. He took an idea that was as old as [i]First Men in the Moon[/i] — people travel space, basically good guys, run into bad aliens and win out over them…what Roddenberry stated at the beginning would be “[i]Wagon Train[/i] in space,” to show how “original” this guy’s thinking was — and hired some good sci-fi writers to develop it. That it turned into something better than it had any right to be is pretty much wholly dependent on the writers he hired. When he got rid of most of them in the third season, the show, for the most part, turned into a big flying piece of crap. Like I said, he had a couple of decent ideas and could get some talented staffers together to create some good stuff *in spite* of what his natural tendencies may have been. But outside of that…yecch.
I don’t think [i]Star Trek[/i] borrowed much from Wells. The sci-fi novel which it most closely resembles is [i]The Voyage of the Space Beagle[/i] by A. E. van Vogt (though not as much as [i]Alien[/i] resembles the “Discord in Scarlet” segment). Really, the original series’ premise utilized well-established science fiction elements and themes. It was writers like Harlan Ellison and Dorothy Fontana that made [i]Star Trek[/i] what it was (and still is, to some extent). I am not among the Trekkies who idolize and boswellize Gene Roddenberry.
[i]Spock’s Brain[/i] angered me. It wasn’t so much the plot flaws, continuity errors, pseudoscience, or shameless reuse of sets, sound effects, and story factors from previous episodes, but because it was my idea! A couple of years ago I created an outline for a story (I make a lot of outlines, the actual writing is the tough part) called “Arcanus Muliebribus” (maybe the xenomorph can tell us what that means) that was remarkably similar. Not to the plot about the missing brain, but the part about a planet where the males and females live in different societies, and the males are absolutely terrified of the females. I thought up that same premise! Gene Roddenberry stole my idea 31 years in the past! That’s even better than George Lucas. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Gene Roddenberry has had more posthumous success that Tupac Shakur. I cringe at the thought of what could follow [i]Earth: Final Conflict[/i] and [i]Andromeda[/i]…
[b]Gene Roddenberry’s [i]Assignment: Earth[/i][/b] with Jolene Blalock as the cat [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
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I should probably clarify – this is the first series of Trek I’ve seen where the technobabble has been confusing, because … well, it’s just not working properly any more. At least previously when LaForge said “you can’t go above warp 10” there a consistent reason why, even if it wouldn’t make any sense to the average viewer. The Universal Translator, for example – previously, it was established that the computer held the translator in their communicators / comnbadges. Now Hoshi seems to carry this large device around for ten minutes before suddenly everyone’s speaking fluently to the aliens of the week whether she’s there or not.The fact that they’re all scared of the transporter really annoys me. Would Starfleet really include one if it wasn’t safe technology? Wouldn’t they have been trained to use the things routinely back on Earth?
When in other series was it established that Klingons had the holodeck technology? I must have missed it…
The use of the transporter annoys me to. Of course, it wasn’t really safe technology in the original [i]Star Trek[/i]. Numerous stories relied on transporter malfunctions (in fact, Rick Berman was so annoyed by that cliché that he made a rule against using transporter malfunctions in [i]The Next Generation[/i], though that was broken a few times by writers in later seasons).
I can’t remember the episode, but in one show a Klingon is bragging about the accomplishments of his civilization and mentions that they preceded Starfleet in holodeck technology. It’s probably in the Star Trek Encyclopedia, but I don’t have that with me.
I don’t see the tesh talk in [i]Enterprise[/i] as being any more confusing than the tesh talk in [i]The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager[/i], or the original [i]Star Trek[/i].
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Originally posted by Aleck:
[i]Before[/i] he died? Man, other than the [i]Star Trek[/i] franchise, *every* scenario the guy came up with was half-baked. Does *anyone* really want to see [i]Genesis II, The Questor Tapes, Planet Earth[/i] or [i]Spectre[/i]? What about that show that he tried to use an episode of [i]Star Trek[/i] as a launching pad for? “Assignment: Earth” with Robert Lansing as superhuman secret agent/big-time doofus Gary Seven and Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln, his hapless assistant? With his “now she’s a cat, now she’s a hot babe” companion? With Kirk delivering one of the worst “hey, let’s do a spin-off!” lines of all time, something like “We’ve checked the historical records, and you two have some very interesting adventures ahead of you…” That episode (with “Spock’s Brain”) just makes me want to dig up Roddenberry’s corpse and punch it in the face a few times, but they cremated him.
The guy could assemble some talented people, but I have to agree with Harlan Ellison: Gene Roddenberry couldn’t write himself out of a paper bag.
I completely agree with Aleck on this one. Gene Roddenberry was a two-bit writer who stumbled on a gold mine.
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“Brain. Brain. What is brain?” -Kara, [i]Spock’s Brain[/i]
[i]Enterprise[/i] was a lot better than I was fearing. It does seem like it’s been dumbed down a little from the last 3 [i]Star Trek[/i] series, more centered on physical action than the cerebral. Plus they recycle plots. Still, it’s at least average for television sci-fi.
Actually, the Klingons having holodeck technology isn’t a continuity error. It had been previously established that the Klingon Empire had holodeck technology before the Federation (which got it somewhere between 2291 and 2353). The real error was giving Starfleet transporter technology. [i]Enterprise[/i] takes place in the 2160s (I think), but the people in the [i]Next Generation[/i] episode [i]The Masterpiece Society[/i] had never heard of transporters, and they left Earth in the 2180s. I’ve noticed a few continuity errors since I started watching.
T’Pol is okay, but not as strong a character as other Vulcan characters (though, to be honest, I never saw the original series episode with her). She seems sorta like a rehash of 7 of 9.
Whether the terms are made-up or simply arcane, think the tesh talk is necessary for a show like [i]Star Trek[/i].
I could say more but if I don’t leave soon I’ll be late for my lit class.
I thought [i]Bad Carrot[/i] was good, aside from some crude humor. The [b]really[/b] funny scene, in my opinion, was when the probe was chasing 790 around the bridge. “This is getting stupid.” [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I have a question for you, Frey…
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From the Patricia Zentilli chat:
maybe Louise will do her own chat another timedefinitely glad to have her
she says she will set it up with Frey
Any news on that? I look forward to a Louise Wischermann chat and/or interview and have some questions lined up.
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Originally posted by Slopmaster:
Does tyring to convince us that S4 took place in the year 2020 because you thought you saw those numbers on the back of a card in “Xevivor” ring a bell or I guess that was just an honest mistake.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Is this what you were talking about, DT?
[img]http://www.flamegrape.com/pic/xevivorlogo1.jpg[/img]
(The image I captured was originally upsidedown. Long story.)This is the same graphic that was printed on the back of the [i]Xevivor[/i] crew t-shirts.
That was a minor error on my part. I guess those shapes on the sides were women, they looked to me like numbers (the title card disappeared very quickly, so we never got a good look at it). That’s a little eerie, really, I could’ve sworn I saw “20” and “20” on the sides of “XEVIVOR.” Season four has never given us a date for when it takes place, and that was driving me crazy (it still is). When I saw that title logo in [i]Xevivor[/i] I thought I finally had a date. You’ll recall I figured that couldn’t be the year when I remembered that one of the contestants mentioned receiving some title in 2001, which couldn’t have been that long ago.
That’s great. Hey, could you give me a transcript of G’Kar’s truth/God speech?
In one episode (I forget which) he is giving a reading from the Book of G’Kar, and one of the Narns asks him “What is truth? And what is God?” He gives him a real insightful answer. But the Narns aren’t satisfied with that answer, so they ask him again, and he just tells them what they want to hear.
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[i]What do you want?[/i]A: Order and obedience
B: Chaos and evolution
C: None of the abovequote:
Originally posted by Slopmaster:
Yeah and thank god we haven’t seen another of your outlandish personalized Lexx facts.
What is that supposed to mean?
Walter Koenig was really amazing as Bester because he was able to believably portray a character very different from Ensign Chekov. Let’s fave it, all of the original [i]Star Trek[/i] cast members have been typecast big time, and it would be fighting an uphill battle to be seen as anyone else. But Koenig succeeded as Bester.
When I see him on [i]Babylon 5[/i], I don’t see Chekov, I see Bester. I still think I like the character of Chekov on [i]Star Trek[/i] better than Bester on [i]Babylon 5[/i], but they’re two very different characters, and there’s no comparing them. Chekov is amiable, sometimes even humerous. Bester is sly and unfeeling, with only a little pathos. Chekov is the kind of guy you love. Bester is the kind of guy you love to hate.
Walter Koenig is a great actor in his flexibility.
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My favorite is [i]Babylon Squared[/i], though the [i]War Without End[/i] stories came close to surpassing it. My favorite [i]Babylon 5[/i] movie is [i]The Gathering[/i].
