Ron Moore has explicitly said that the Cylon colony is not the planet you’re looking for, and that its moon(s) and continents were not shown to create ambiguity.
Spectre of the Gun had it’s dragging moments, for certain, but it was still one of the better season 3 episodes, and, it has one of the best Scotty jokes:
Scotty throws back a shot
Scotty: “It’s to kill the pain.”
Spock: looking at his knockout gas “But this is painless.”
Scotty: Well, you should have warned me sooner!
. Plus, Spock getting thisclose to McCoy during the mindmeld makes me happy in my pants.
And what the hell is this with *Ghost Whisperer *suddenly jumping forward 5 years in time???!?
I’m sorry, as my experience here suggests that your thread is probably interesting, but I’m originally from Minnesota and know that any sentence that begins with “Sorry…” should be followed by a totally bitchy, but politely passive-aggressive, skewering of someone else’s entire belief system (you think you Southerners invented it?). Most of these entries are, at best, mildly disapproving.
Regarding the appearance of Orion in Galactica, I don’t get why everyone is giving this so much importance. The constellation showed up for a few seconds and it wasn’t even Galactica that was shown near it, it was the Cylon rebels. Given that the whole constellation from the Temple on Kobol thing is never really picked up again directly in the plot I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say “No, the nuked Earth they arrived at had to be our Earth because there was a shot of Orion in a previous scene”. Yeah, so? For all we know the CGI generators decided to throw it in for shits and giggles.
It is a pity that the original show The Prisoner only had 16 episodes, they were all so good. One more couldn’t have hurt could it?
Shame really.
Be seeing you.
Thank you oh so very much. I need a neuralyzer right about now.
I have reports to read, so you’ll have to unleash the bees on yourself.
Huh? It was shown in multiple episodes. The camera panned to it, and Starbuck’s “woo-woo” theme music picked up when they showed it. “Coincidence” isn’t a valid argument here.
If it was that important how did I completely manage to miss it then? And how come no-one in the show actually said “That constellation - it’s significant” or something like that?
If the show thought that Orion was important it did a very bad job of conveying that to the audience.
It wasn’t important to them, it was a hint for us.
I was never that much of a Wesley-hater so for ST: TNG I’m going with Genesis. Troi turning into a frog-person, Riker a caveman, Picard a lemur and a strange proto-Worf were all bad enough, but Beverly Crusher acts completely brain-damaged for the entire episode (“Those look like venom glands - let me put my face right next to your mouth to look at them. Aagh!”) and laughs off her little “oops, I created a plague that infected the whole crew” mistake at the end even though a couple of crew members actually died (killed by the Worf-thing). Ha ha! What larks!
Also, while I try not to worry too much about ST science-y stuff, I am very sure that cats did not evolve from iguanas. Really they didn’t. Even Ed Wood would have balked at that.
Sometimes when people ask me how I’m doing I respond with:
I believe I’m coming down with Barclay’s Protomorphosis Syndrome.
Don’t forget the best part, where Barclay devolves into a spider! And spins webs all over the engine room! Where, exactly, are spiders in the human evolutionary tree?
Well, son, when a man and a drider love each other very, very much…
I feel obliged to point out that this episode shows Marina Sirtis in a bathtub. It is thus rescued from absolute catastrophe, though it remains far less than mediocre.
I’m gonna have to disagree on this one. As a die-hard Sports Night fan this was the basis for Jeremy’s entire character.
Missed the edit window…
Speaking of Sports Night
There wasn’t a laugh track.
There was a very subtle one in the first episode (go to 3:40).
I think it was on a few more after that, but I’m not about to go through them all to check.
No…there…wasn’t