Remember the RV from Ark 2?
Knock off the wheels and it was in Space Academy.
Also, that Trek episode was called, “Spectre of the Gun”.
The Moderator Pontificates:
OK, so I’m here five hours and many, many posts after the problem, but…
Chuck, there’s a fine line between “humor” and “insult”, and I think you’ve got one toe over that fine line.
This is Cafe Society, it’s about the arts and entertainment, and there’s room for lots of varying point of view. You can insult the art itself all you want – Lord knows, in this thread, we’re talking some pretty awful stuff – but you can’t insult the member for his opinion.
Detecting humor in posts is not always as obvious to you as it might be to someone else, and I daresay that you’ve been whooshed in the past, too. We’ve all been there, and it does no good to take on an insulting tone about it. Agreed?
What, no love for Nukie? (Warning: Something Awful is harmful to children and other living things.)
Nukie is the kind of film you show a child you want to grow up to become a mass murderer. Nukie is the kind of gift you give someone you never want to see again. Nukie is proof solid that there is no God, and that He hates us with all His might.
Ok, I’m going out on a limb here, but:
What is so terrible about the Spock’s Brain episode? More so than any other TOS episode I mean.
I haven’t watched it in a while but it wouldn’t have been on my finalist’s list of Worst Trek Episodes.
“Brain and brain! What is brain!?”
Need I say more?
It was Specter of the Gun, and it has colored my view of the Gunfight at the OK Corral ever since. I’ve always seen the Earps as the villians. I know it’s foolish, but I saw this episode when I was 10 or so…
Ahem.
Soylent Green is people!
Soylent Green is people!
No, that’s just a bonus. 
I think you are correct. The reader becomes like Shevek, coming to the two ambiguous worlds “with empty hands”, ready to receive whatever there is as a gift.
I never found the world of Starship Troopers appealing (and I have never seen the film), so I read it simply as pulp fiction. I can’t imagine anyone treating The Dispossessed that way. Especially not the pivotal scene, where Shevek is describing watching a man burned in a plane crash die.
"That’s where brotherhood begins. It begins in shared pain.
And where does it end?
I don’t know. I don’t know yet."
And all those references to “the wall”.
Regards,
Shodan
How many air ducts have you seen that are that well lit and have computer interfaces everywhere?
Disagree on one point.
The ship was rather cool looking…and the intial plot set up was quite nice.
Too bad they screwed it up. I really wanted to like it.
And I have to ask: Why does evil from beyond our universe speak Latin?
It may not make sense…but I’ve always had a fondness for that particulary episode, if nothing else because it answers the eternal question: What would happen if the writers ran out of ideas and decided to borrow the sets and costumes from Guys and Dolls to make an episode?
You know, I would PAY to hear Shatner sing “Luck Be A Lady”. Truly I would.
Heh. Me too.
In my mis-spent youth, I read quite a bit of christian sci-fi. There’s a bunch of brain cells I miss.
I love that episode. I do! It’s the only one I have a recording of. “Right, Spocko?”
“Er, riiiight.”
I’m assuming that it’s Christian sci-fi besides Lewis…
Are we talking Peretti here? :eek: Although I’d classify him more as Christian fantasy.
I’m trying to remember an overly long sci-fi novel I was unable to finish. It did not allow itself to be read. Maybe someone could come up with the title if I describe it.
The parts I was able to read were about a guy who creates a new metal alloy, and he wanted to use it for things like bridges and railroad tracks but the government made him distribute it to everyone, so there were plenty of coffee pots and golf clubs made with his new metal but not enough for his own selfish plans. I remember an unikely romantic subplot, too.
Any ideas?
I don’t remember any authors. The only plot I can remember right off the top is a trilogy (IIRC) where the “space brothers” were coming to some un-named planet, bringing with them advanced science and medicine, and spreading some vaguely new-agish philosophy/religion. Of course, it turns out the “space brothers” are either demons/devils/fallen angels or worshippers of same (I can’t remember which), and only the incredible courage of a few previously-mocked “true believers” (they’re never identified as christians, but that’s what they were) saved the day.
Calling the characters 2D and the plot thin would be entirely too generous.
:smack: When nesting quotes, it’d be really keen to nest them right!
Last year some time I watched “Robinson Crusoe On Mars.”
In my defense I had been drinking and was home alone. It had all the worst aspects of the old Buck Rogers special effects plus, as he was mostly alone, little dialoge.
I will now prepare my acceptance speach, when do I get the prize?