Thanks, read it. i wouldnt spend a whole five dollars on fiction unless i went to the minimal effort of googling the writer. i am remarkably parsimonious.
Was just curious as to your (and others) take on the guy.
And I’ll start with “Little Black Bag.” Thanx again!
I’m wrong on a detail – they reprinted The Best of Cordwainer Smith as The Rediscovery of Man. I hadn’t realized that it was the same collection under a different name – Title: The Best of Cordwainer Smith
Not to be confused with the NESFA collection called The Rediscovery of Man. The NESFA edition contains all of Smith’s Future History stories except for Norstilia (which got its own book – it’s a novel, after all), including the previously unpublished version of “War No. 81-Q” – Title: The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
The Ballantine/Del Rey/Doubleday version actually only contains about half of the stories. For most of the rest you had to buy the Ballantine/Del Rey/Doubleday book The Instrumentality of Mankind –Publication: The Instrumentality of Mankind
And you still wouldn’t have the three stories in the Ace paperback Quest of the Three Worlds. – Publication: Quest of the Three Worlds
I am truly impressed.
Here’s a little quiz i made up a few years ago; you’re welcome to use any of the questions you like: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=597375&highlight=quiz
Characters in WATCHMEN were replacements for existing comic-book superheroes; Doctor Manhattan swapped in for Captain Atom, and Nite Owl for the Blue Beetle. What character with a doubly-phallic name was the original for Ozymandias?
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
In which Star Trek (original series) episode do we see Sulu in the captain’s chair? And why is he there, given that Kirk and Spock are on the bridge at the same time?
Is There in Truth No Beauty? He’s there because Spock, who’s been driven temporarily insane, has shoved him him there.
In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, which character is referred to as a “girl”, rather than a “female”?
Fiona. This only happens once, so it may be just an error on the author’s part.
In the film and TV versions of Alien Nation, Detective Francisco uses different first names. They are…
Sam in the film, George on TV.
From which Hugo Award-winning novelette does the following exchange repeatedly occur:
“You have a purpose.”
“Therefore I serve.”
“The Secret Life of Bots”, by Suzanne Palmer
Somebody post a trivia question about the late Buck Henry’s teevee show Quark (1977).
I don’t know enough about it, just that I’m in love with the Bettys.
4 is Space Patrol with > 1000 episodes (900 are 15 min long). Doctor Who is second I believe.
Brian
They both had journeys disrupted by a strange creature attempting to sabotage the vessel in which they were traveling.
Richard Benjamin was in Made In America with Whoopi Goldberg, who was in Jumpin’ Jack Flash with Stephen Collins, who was in ST: The Movie with William Shatner.
Quark is 3 degrees from Shatner.
Just Imagine an SF/musical featuring the long forgotten El Brendel. The movie had a major budget, but failed miserably (though the sets were reused).
Captain Video. It’s hard to come up with an episode count, but it ran 5 (and in the first year 6) episodes a week for almost six years. That hits around 1500 episodes, though I have no idea if it went on hiatus in the summer. It was unlikely to have been reruns, given the era.
IIRC, he was there in at least one other episode. I think it was “Errand of Mercy” as the *Enterprise *was returning to Organia to confront the Klingons. Kirk and Spock were both off the ship, and it was a Scotty-less episode.
In the original Star Trek series, Spock is occasionally seen using a hand held computer. What type of computer is it? Bonus question. when was it invented?
it’s an E6B aviation circular slide rule - invented in 1937
kaylasdad99 answered this, but there’s some added context. When the Solomons meet the Big Giant Head, he’s just gotten off an airplane. He says that there was a creature on the wing of the plane, and Dick says “the same thing happened to me!”
It’s a reference to “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, from The Twilight Zone. William Shatner (the Big Giant Head) was in the original episode, and John Lithgow (Dick Solomon) played the same role in the Twilight Zone movie.
A few years ago I saw an episode of The Twilight Zone (but not “Valley of the Shadow”) and something about the little girl must have looked familiar. I looked her up on IMDb and discovered that Suzanne Cupito took the stage name Morgan Brittany when she grew up. I hadn’t even known that she acted as a child.
Checking now, she worked pretty steadily from childhood into adulthood. While we’re discussing trivia, it looks like she portrayed Vivien Leigh three times. I suppose the similarity is pretty striking.
Hasn’t acted since 2007. Was never super famous; kinda surprised anyone else still remembers her.
Which one of the Bettys is the clone?
Miramanee’s Amerindians aside, what is the connection between Star Trek and the 1937 classic Lost Horizon?
By my count, 13 actors (male and female) guest starred on both Star Trek: TOS and the original Lost in Space. Name at least five of them.
By my count, 26 actors (male and female) guest starred on both Star Trek: TOS and Adam West’s Batman, mostly as villains and villainesses. Name at least ten of them.
Two of the guest stars on the original Lost in Space would go on to star in one of the most popular shows of the '80s. Name them.
(Answers will be given below tomorrow.)
I knew the answer to this before I saw the spoiler. IIRC, they were (probably still are) used to calculate air- and groundspeed. I always told myself the technology of the 23rd century had just developed something similar for calculating matter/anti-matter ratios and such.
***TOS ***sets like *Enterprise *corridors and the courtyard on Cestus III often turned up in what other Desilu series of the period?
Frank Gorshin
Julie Newmar
Lee Merriwether (if we’re counting the Batman movie)
Sherry Jackson
Yvonne Craig
I may think of more, but some of them would be guesses.
Very good. Lee was in both the movie and the series as different characters, only one of which was evil (Catwoman). In the other (a King Tut episode), she was a girlfriend of Bruce Wayne.