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[Wolf]

So, we ALL are going to come out of the closet all at once, eh?

I was wondering who else in the EFL world might have picked up their first subconscious inklings of wanting to see all there is out there from listening to

To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations (okay new for US)
To boldly go where no man (or no one depending on the series) has gone before

My personal favorites was the classic and The Next Generation.
Personal favorite classic shows: The one where there is a guy whose face is black on the left and white on the right, and his undying racial hatred for a guy whose face is black on the RIGHT and white on the LEFT. Third rate acting and a wussy 50 cent makeup job, but what a well told story.

The one where they question the Vietnam war. Kirk and Bones beam down to this planet where Kirk is friends with this guy from some tirbe. The Klingons are giving muskets to another ethnic group. Finally after many trials (and a not too shabbily acted argument scence - at least as far as ST goes) Kirk decided to begin arming his friend's side. Remember the show was made DURING that war, and anything criticizing it directly would have been yanked off the air faster than you could say The People's Republic of China. Gotta love it, criticism of the war would only have been possible on a cheesy sci fi drama. B*llsy, and not a small influence on me. Criticize that which must be criticized - and not to worry, government censors do not understand the word "allegory."


For TNG (watch seasons 3 - 7 and don't bother with the first two years till after if you've never seen)

All the ones with Q.

The Best of Both Worlds (The Borg invade and Assimilate Picard.)

I, Borg. This is the one where the enterprising crew find a sole Borg survivor from a crashed scout ship. They heal (repair?) it and in the process of studying it - well it becomes a he. He developes a personality, and a sense of individuality. Eventually Picard & co decide to let him leave for his home - without using him as a tool to kill all his bretheren or without removing his individuality. Preachy? A bit. But there were days in Japan where memoires of this show kept me going - if even Hugh could learn to have an opoinion and express it in spoken English then just maybe ... no that's too cruel. But it was a personal favorite.

Oh, and the Sci Fi show from the '70s with Lorne Greene was called "Battlestar Galactica." It ran for two years. Yeah, it was cheesy, but it had its moments.

The show where Kirk went back in time to find McCoy and lets the woman die won a Hugo award for best screenplay (the only trek show from ANY series to do so - at least until 1999 when I stopped paying attention). I think it was called "The Guardian of Forever" which was the name of the giant stone doughnut that you could use to jump through time.


Okay, now everyone knows what sort of life I had before EFL

Favorite Trek Lines:

"Captain please, I protest! I am NOT a merry man!" - Warf

"If you were any other man I would kill you where you stand." - also Warf. Gotta love Warf. Warf was the Next Generation Klingon guy.

"What do I have to do in order to prove that I am mortal?!" - Q
"Die!" - Warf.


"Warf, are you familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan?" - Picard
"No, sir, I have not had a chance to meet all the new crewmembers." -
... Warf.

"Just once I'd like to beam down to some planet and cry out 'Behold! I am the archangel Gabriel!'" - McCoy (I'm paraphrasing it's only been about 10 years since I saw that one.)

"Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!" - McCoy

[arioch36]

Mr. Slat, Wolf..excellent. I also loved where they found the lone Borg...who was named Hugh.

The problem with the next generation...to civilized. I mean, what fun is gambling if you don't use real money? And if the Federation has become a Utopian society...how boring.

Poor Scottie..the same lines all the time, and I don't remember him ever getting the girl. Though it was usually, Kirk, Spock had a few, and even McCoy bagged one or two. The only girl I remember Scottie getting was the girl in the Jack the Ripper episode, and she got eliminated pretty quick. No wonder he returned to drink

Along with Bonanza there was another show that had the 6 million dollar man, when he was young. It had Barbara Stanwyck (sp?) a tough woman. The daughter was a babe, but I don't remember ever seeing her again. She was sweet, gentle, beautiful. Anyone know her name?

I always though Shantner was a pretty bad actor. And he quickly becam pretty fat. Any one see him and Angie Dickinson (can I say her name on Dave's?) in the clasic Big Bad Mama?

[johnslat]

Dear arioch36,
That TV show with Barbara Stanwyk ( how had the mighty fallen ) was " The Big Valley ". The daughter/babe was Linda Evans as Audra. Want to take a trip down memory lane?

http://www.geocities.com/TvPilotGuy/bigvalley.html

Regards,
John

[Shonai Ben]

Gunsmoke was my favorite "duster" on tv and also ran the longest of any.James Arness was Marshall Dillon.The original actor for this part was to be John Wayne but he was too busy and suggested JA.
Another sf show that I liked was the twilight zone.Famous quote,"You have now entered the twilight zone".Actually I have said this under my breathe a few times in my eikaiwa classes.

[johnslat]

Dear Shonai Ben.
Were you aware that James Arness is ( was? ) Peter Grave's ( the head honcho on the original " Mission Impossible ) brother?
Regards,
John

[arioch36]

Slat, you tease, you scum. Do you know what a hassle it is trying to get geocities is in China. I never knew that was Linda Evans I loved her when i was a kid.

Shatner was in an episode of the twighlight zone..he and his girlfriend/wife stop in a restaurant, and get fortunes from a small fortune telling machine.

Loved the one where war had killed everyone in the city. This bookworm lived. he was real happy because now he would be able to read all day long. Then he breaks his glasses

[johnslat]

Dear arioch36,
Sorry - I didn't know geocities wold be a problem there. Here's another site, although it, too, might prove difficult:

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-648/

I LOVED the Twilight Zone. My all-time favorite was " The Invaders ", with ( only ) Agnes Moorehead ( who never speaks - the only words come at the very end: " The Spaceman: Central Control...come in Central Control. Do you read me? Gresham is dead! Repeat, Gresham is dead! The ship's destroyed. Incredible race of giants here. Race of giants. No, Central Control. No counterattack. Repeat, no counterattack. Too much for us. Too powerful. Stay away. Gresham and I...we're finished! Finished! Stay away. Stay away...).

" This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted, dying. This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress. This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who's been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror which is even now coming at her from the Twilight Zone.

A woman living in a non-descript shack is busy preparing her dinner when suddenly she hears a buzzing sound coming from above. The noise grows so deafening that she hides underneath a table. When the noise stops, the roof shakes and dust falls from the ceiling. The woman is still trying to recover from what the noise did to her ears. She looks towards the ceiling and then outside her window, but there is nothing outside. Slowly, she climbs the ladder that leads to the attic. What she finds up there is a miniature flying saucer. She gets down on her stomach to look underneath the saucer. The ladder to the ship opens, and she flees in fear, hiding behind the cover of the trap door leading downstairs. She is not alone for long, because a few moments later a miniature spaceman is waddling around the corner. She kicks the spaceman through the opening downstairs and then closes the trap door. Her relief is short-lived as there is another spaceman in the far corner pointing and shooting some type of electronic ray gun at her. The ray gun is effective on the woman, and she struggles to get to her feet.

She takes her lantern and throws it at the spaceman, knocking him off the edge of the roof. She starts to climb down the ladder but she is distracted by the sounds of moving feet. At the bottom of the ladder, she picks up one of the spaceman's ray guns. After shaking it and pressing on it, she finally gets it to work which causes her to drop it in surprise. She also discovers several strange bumps across her hands, arms, and upper chest. The woman is startled to hear the beeping sound of one of the spacemen. The sound quietly fades out. The woman grabs a candle and a wooden stick. She then walks around her house while poking the stick into every space imaginable. She comes across a door and slowly unfastens the latch. When she swings the door open, there is a spaceman waiting on the other side. The woman quickly closes the door. It is not long before she hears the beeping sound again. She looks in the kitchen, and there are only two kitchen knives on the wall instead of three. A spaceman crawls up behind her in one of her cabinets. The woman shuts the cabinet and sticks a large bowl in front of it.

The woman moves out of the kitchen and into her bedroom. A spaceman is waiting for her in a hole in the floorboards, and he has the kitchen knife. The spaceman uses it on the woman's ankle, and she goes down screaming. The spacemen then lands on top of her. Instantaneously, the woman throws the spaceman against the opposite wall. The woman limps into the kitchen to look at her wound. She has also armed herself with an axe. She reaches another door, but this one has a small round pole as a doorknob. She grabs onto the pole and a spaceman on the other side sticks the knife through the hold in the door. This causes quite a gash on the woman's hand. She boldly rushes through the door ready to strike, but the spaceman is gone. She finds him hiding under the sheets in her bed. She wraps up the spacemen in the sheets while another spaceman shoots at her while standing on a window ledge. The woman pushes the spaceman off the ledge and closes the window. The spaceman wrapped up in the bedsheets isn't going quietly.

The kitchen knife quickly cuts through the sheets. The woman is able to grab the knife and throw it away. The woman then vents her anger by knocking the spaceman against a table several times. Assuming that the spaceman is dead, she drops it in a box and throws the box into the fireplace. There is a loud crashing sound in the room. In the bottom of the wall there is a spaceman-sized hole, and soon enough a spaceman comes waddling by shooting his ray gun. The woman kneels by the hole with her axe ready, but the spaceman doesn't go through. Instead, he heads back to the attic, as does the woman. The spaceman has already boarded the spaceship. The woman takes her axe and destroys the spaceship. Before dying, the spaceman sends a message back to his commander about this incredible race of giants. He also warns against sending another ship to this planet. The camera pans around the destroyed spacecraft until it reaches the identification. The spaceship reads, "U.S. Air Force - Space Probe No. 1"...

These are the invaders, the tiny beings from the tiny place called Earth, who would take the giant step across the sky to the question marks that sparkle and beckon from the vastness of the universe only to be imagined. The invaders, who found out that a one-way ticket to the stars beyond has the ultimate price tag. And we have just seen it entered in a ledger that covers all the transactions of the universe, a bill stamped 'paid in full,' and to be found, on file, in the Twilight Zone "


http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/episodes/index.html

Regards,
John

[Shonai Ben]

John:
Yes I am aware that Peter Graves and James Arness are brothers.I loved the Mission Impossible shows also.The movies never really impressed me though.
Who was the announcer on Twilight Zone?I can remember his voice but not his name.Ah, Rod Stirling?Maybe?

[Steiner]

Back to Star Trek--have any of you seen the movie "Trekkies"? It's a documentary that came out a few years ago and is all about Trekkies, as the title suggests so evocatively.

My favorite segment is about a dentist whose office is completely decked out with Trek stuff. Even the receptionist and hygenists wear Trek uniforms. One of the hygenists refused to wear the uniform for a year or two but finally started wearing it. When asked why, she replied "He (the dentist) told me I had to." At one point the interviewer, an old cast member, asks the dentist and his wife about their obsession with the show and they proceed to tell her that they often role-play as characters from the show, but since his wife is too short the dentist usually plays the role of the interviewer. The look on the interviewer's face is worth the price of the movie.

And then there's the lady OBSESSED with Brett Spiner, the guy who played Data. She doesn't like to be called a Trekkie or a Trekker. She insists that she is a SpinerFemme.

[zakiah25]

Are you certain that this whole Enterprise displays any logic?

[bnix]

By the by, how is Marmaduke?(Mandrake?).

[Wolf]

[Shaman]

I'm not a Trekkie per se. But I must admit an affinity for the Klingons, especially Worf's line: "You will die without honour".

Shaman

[Shonai Ben]

Does anyone remember the pilot for the original star trek series?
The original capt. was not W. Shatner.It was in 2 parts and Spock was a very young science officer.The crew of the Enterprise came to a planet called Talus? and were held prisoner by the beings there that could make them see whetever they wanted them to see.

[Wolf]