# Highlander 2, Star Trek V, and other things that didn't happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318 "2003-11-10T01:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/21 "2003-11-10T07:26:21Z")
Darth Vader never was played by a whiny kid. He was a Nasty Mcbadass from when he was born until when he died. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/22 "2003-11-10T07:36:58Z")
“From the day he was born he was trouble. He was the thorn in his mother’s side.” When you get a song stuck in your head, share the pain. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/23 "2003-11-10T08:03:02Z")
That song has been stuck in my head too Fern Forrest, “What a guy, makes you cry, and I did…” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/24 "2003-11-10T08:31:31Z")
All your base are _not_ belong to us. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/25 "2003-11-10T09:01:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mister Armageddon \* > And since no one’s done a video game yet, let’s throw in Zelda II and the Japanese Super Mario 2. Miyamoto can do no wrong, so I can’t see how either of these can be said to have ever been made by him. Um, what’s wrong with the Japanese SMB2? Sure, it’s hard as sin, but gameplay-wise, I thought it was a funtastic sequel. Certainly better than the renamed Arabian side-scroller thing that got sold as “Super Mario Bros. 2” in the States… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/26 "2003-11-10T09:11:37Z")
**Supertramp** made their last record in the mid 80’s. **Queensrÿche** ’s last album was _Promised Land_ (1994). **Jan de Bont** made one film with the word “Speed” in the title. Not two. ONE. There was this cool movie in the late 70’s, **Smokie and the Bandit**. I wonder why they never made any sequels of that one? Same for **Police Academy**. That movie had such potential, it’s amazing there never was a sequel for it. **Basic Instinct** was the only erotic thriller Sharon Stone ever did, and it was a mediocre one at that. She certainly never acted in any movies rhyming with “shiver”. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/27 "2003-11-10T10:57:19Z")
_Millennium_ was sadly canceled at the end of its second season, its cliffhanger episode left unresolved. There’s a rumor that the plug was pulled because the writers were going to just handwave it away for the third season. I hear that Dan Simmons was planning to write sequels to his _Hyperion_ novels, but has never gotten round to it. Stephen King has an unfinished manuscript with a working title of _It_; sources assure me that serious writers’ block struck him at the point where the cast of protagonists was about to make the final push through Derry’s sewers to face the evil plaguing the town. There’s a bad fan-fictionish ending floating around that involves the titular it being a giant spider, and involving a gangbang. There was a second/third-tier sci-fi and fantasy author by name of Piers Anthony who faded into obscurity after writing a handful of books including a clever-enough pun-heavy fantasy trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/28 "2003-11-10T11:13:26Z")
This is an obscure one (but I’m a big fan of old TV westerns so here goes). [_Wagon Train_](http://www.roberthorton.com/wagon_train.htm) was always in B&W, and it always starred Ward Bond and Robert Horton. This nasty rumor about it going to color and starring [John McIntire](http://www.fiftiesweb.com/wt/john-mcintire.htm) and Robert Fuller. Nope. That never happened. [\*Alias Smith and Jones](http://www.asjcollection.com/)\* only went for about two seasons, and had one guy play Hannibal Heyes–the late [Pete Duel](http://www.asjcollection.com/current/graphics/hh1.jpg). There’s this tale going around that after Duel’s suicide, his part was quickly recast with another guy, but everyone knows that this is just a rumor–no evidence of it that I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/29 "2003-11-10T11:26:02Z")
There was no _Doctor Who_ TV movie. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/30 "2003-11-10T12:26:03Z")
I’m amazed nobody mentioned this so far: There was no final episode of _Farscape_. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/31 "2003-11-10T13:13:51Z")
Yeah, but after all - there wasn’t much of a final episode to Farscape! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MrMyth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@MrMyth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMyth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/32 "2003-11-10T14:01:34Z")
Michael Jordan came back once, and retired from that permanently. He never picked up a basketball again, except to reluctantly show his clones how to play. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/33 "2003-11-10T14:04:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadfly \* > \*\*She’s my favorite film critic. Go and buy all her merchandise and read all her reviews, in no particular order. \*\* Just replying to say I completely agree. I actually spent an entire weekend browsing through her reviews. Are you gonna pitch in for her fund raiser? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/34 "2003-11-10T14:23:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrMyth \* > \*\*Michael Jordan came back once, and retired from that permanently. He never picked up a basketball again, except to reluctantly show his clones how to play. \*\* Other than the odd Sunday morning neighbourhood game, Jordan never really played baseball, either. [sub]Although I suppose one could classify the Minor League as “Sunday morning neighbourhood games”.[/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/35 "2003-11-10T14:48:48Z")
There were no _Gilligan’s Island_ TV movies. They never got off the island. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/36 "2003-11-10T14:58:17Z")
It’s a good thing that Hollywood realized that there was no way to follow up the charm and humor of _A Christmas Story_, especially not by replacing the everyone and casting Charles Grodin as the dad and having Culkins for kids. I’m also glad that Neil Young never made an album in the early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/37 "2003-11-10T15:27:20Z")
**Yes** never made an album called _Tormato_. And on this aledged album, that doesn’t exist, there certainly aren’t any songs with crap lyrics about not killing whales or arriving UFO’s or Jon Anderson’s deluded interpretations of heaven. Nor does this album, which is non-existant, by the way, have crap disharmonious pseudo-psychedelic synthesizer solos that would make The Doors blush with embarrassment. None of that. It’s all lies. After their 1977 album _Going for the One_, all members of **Yes** took a 3 year sabbatical, to return stronger than ever in 1980 with the classic _Drama_. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/38 "2003-11-10T19:09:05Z")
There was no storyline in _Babylon 5_’s fifth season about a bunch of poofy telepaths with fabulous hair being led by the pretensious wanker Lord Byron who take over the station. Since Byron never existed, Lita Alexander never fell in love with him for no reason. Also, Ivanova never left the station before the fifth season either. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/39 "2003-11-10T19:17:45Z")
You see, David Lee Roth never really left Van Halen, and Roger Waters never left Pink Floyd, and the bands will play an epic “Battle of the Bands” from the opposing roofs of the World Trade Center that was never knocked down. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/40 "2003-11-10T19:41:11Z")
There was no Galactica:1980. Battlestar Galactica ran one season, and that was it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318.md?page=3)