# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/41 "2003-11-10T19:42:33Z")
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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/42 "2003-11-10T20:37:28Z")
Cheap Trick never recorded a lame-ass power ballad called “The Flame”. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/43 "2003-11-10T20:52:13Z")
There never was a 1930’s style death ray… ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/44 "2003-11-10T21:53:28Z")
Duane Allman never bought a motorcycle. Stevie Ray Vaughn never got on the helicopter. Buddy Holly never got on the plane. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/45 "2003-11-10T22:02:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*“So Long and Thanks for all the Fish” was just a throw-away joke in the _Hitchhiker’s Guide_ series. The line on the front of _Mostly Harmless_ actually reads, “The fourth in the heretofore accurately named _Hitchhiker’s_ trilogy”. \*\* Weirdly enough, my copy of _Mostly Harmless_ only has 2 pages. $8.00 for 2 pages? What can I say, I am a DA fan. ---
**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/46 "2003-11-10T22:05:58Z")
Ann Rice stopped her Vampire novels after Queen of the Damned…wonder why she stopped? ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/47 "2003-11-10T23:19:13Z")
I will always wonder whatever happened to Zoe Bartlett. It’s too bad that _“The West Wing”_ got canceled when it did. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/48 "2003-11-10T23:38:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > \*\*There’s an entire message board in the Buffy fandom where any mention of S6 and S7 is verboten. \*\* Buffy didn’t die in The Gift? I watched the WB the next year and no Buffy so I thought it was over. 😉 Just kidding- but your post rings so true. While UPN Buffy was, on average, subpar, there were a few really good episodes. Now the Star Wars prequels and endless released versions of the classics is simply a bad dream. Oh, and there were not any movies in the series after Aliens. X-files went off the air when David D. left to do movies (badly). No Babylon 5- season five or ultra cheesy spin-off follow up series attempts. None. While there was Star Trek: DS 9, the best trek series ever, the was no Enterprise. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/49 "2003-11-11T03:33:02Z")
There was only one season of _Dark Angel_, and the season finale was preempted so we never got to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/50 "2003-11-11T03:36:16Z")
I’ve heard that M_A_S\*H went downhill and Alan Alda started getting all preachy and writing episodes that weren’t funny. Why haven’t I seen these episodes? Why, they were just a nasty rumor. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/51 "2003-11-11T04:09:40Z")
The series finale of _Star Trek: Voyager_ ended with the Borg capturing Voyager, and Janeway ordering a self-destruction to keep everyone from being assimilated. Thus, Trekkies everywhere can rest easy knowing that Janeway, Chakotay, and everyone else from that show will never appear in any future Trek movie or series. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/52 "2003-11-11T06:26:02Z")
AI was an excellant finale to Kubrick’s long Career, without no other directors invovled and certianly no sappy ending. Poor kid, looking at a statue for all eternity. 2001 was such a great movie, too bad they never made a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/53 "2003-11-11T06:38:15Z")
This is another remote one, but the rather crappy 80s science fiction series “V” only lasted about a dozen episodes or so. When Ham Tyler (Michael Ironside) and Robin left the show, it folded quietly. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Armageddon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/54 "2003-11-11T07:39:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*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… \*\* The insane level of difficulty is part of it, but the poison mushrooms and random wind currents when you’re trying to make certain jumps push it over the edge. When the only innovations you bring to a game sequel completely suck, that makes it worthless in my book. And they didn’t even bother updating the graphics, so it doesn’t amount to much more than a glorified expansion pack. I speak in hypothetical, of course, since it doesn’t exist and all. And the Super Mario Bros. 2 we got in the US is a good game. I wouldn’t call it a Mario game, honestly, but I thought it was a decent enough stopgap until SMB3 came out. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/55 "2003-11-11T07:45:23Z")
No sequel to **Rendevous With Rama** exists, I repeat Clarke wrote a fine SF novel and left it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Cube\_Bert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Cube\_Bert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cube_Bert)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/56 "2003-11-11T09:00:49Z")
Tom Bombadil was never a part of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. And of course, there was no such alien as Jar Jar Binks. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/57 "2003-11-11T12:19:35Z")
“The Star Wars Christmas Special.” Actually, George Lucas is CLAIMING that that one doesn’t really exist. And who could blame him? Imagine a version of Star Wars so bad it scares GEORGE LUCAS… ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/58 "2003-11-11T13:13:47Z")
Arthur C. Clarke never wrote any novels with Gentry Lee. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/59 "2003-11-11T13:22:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Icerigger \* > \*\*No sequel to **Rendevous With Rama** exists, I repeat Clarke wrote a fine SF novel and left it at that. \*\* And there aren’t any sequels to 2001 either. If there are, it’s only one and certainly not three. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318/60 "2003-11-11T13:29:00Z")
It was kinda sad when Cheers folded after Diane left, but I understood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlander-2-star-trek-v-and-other-things-that-didnt-happen/212318.md?page=4)