John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design

AMC TV ^ | 20 Aug 2009 | John Scalzi

[IYAS9YAS]

Yet how many of us under age 50 fell into the fantasy and watched the series(if not once, many times) and/or bought our kids star wars toys?

My five-year-old is now playing with the action figures, land-speeder, Millinium Falcon, Taun-taun, etc..., that I had when these movies came out. Some of the plastic on the vehicles is brittle, but really, they're toys, not collectors items. The only people these things will matter to already own them.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here's another oldie-but-goodie:

The Evil Henchman's Guide.

-PJ

[GeronL]

3. How has society survived the holodeck and food replicator? 24 hour 3-D porn involving all 5 senses plus free nachos and beer? Shut everything down other than a few eunuchs to run the necessary electrical plants to keep the holodecks and food replicators powered and occasionally mopped out

Now just write the story! =o)

[LibLieSlayer]

He may not survive that blasphemy! ;-)

LLS

[AreaMan]

I knew what she was when I saw The Lathe of Heaven on PBS.

Even at my age (I was 14) I thought, "What the f**k is this crap? When did hippies start writing SF?"

[MilspecRob]

I think the correct term is “suspension of disbelief”Can't really enjoy most Si-fi with out it.

[GeronL]

Apparently they had a holodeck in the original Star Trek but never had the budget to actually use the thing. I mean produce something using that idea.

[Sawdring]

There were no guard rails because the Jedi Council disbanded OSHA and the Emperor never got around to putting it back.

[al_c]

[Steve Van Doorn]

Those are not bad. You are right 'no seatbelts' but I think i seen a lap belt in a shuttle craft once. The Circuit Breakers funny one but if enough power was put through a circuit it would still skip over the breaker and fry everything.

holodeck porn:
I think there was an episode were Warf was beating a girl in the holodeck as part his type of foreplay.

[Charlespg]

this guy has too
much time on his hands

[Sawdring]

I loved Scalzi’s Old Mans War series and would like my own Brainpal.

[MrB]

Once you have complete tyrannical control,

there’s no need to camouflage it as “public safety”.

[AreaMan]

What kills me about any science fiction is the unreal economics. The cost of colonizing planets, replacing blown up space ships, having edible food anywhere in the universe— none of that is ever accounted for. And nobody ever has to use the bathroom.

Agreed. Although some of the "hard" science fiction writers don't ignore the practical aspects of all those things.

Yeah, for some reason I can't imagine Kirk or Picard saying, "Spock, or Number 1, you have the con I gotta take a dump."

[MrB]

Number 1, you have the con while I take a Number 2.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The Squire of Gothos used the holodeck concept in the Original Star Trek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squire_of_Gothos

[discostu]

There’s no rails in the Knights of the Old Republic video games either. Maybe the Sith Lords got rid of them.

[abishai]

The character that bugged me was Yoda. He’s supposed to be this really wise 900 year old Jedi Master, but he’s the only fricking alien in the whole dang galaxy that can’t speak Basic right.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Whoever came up with the idea of using a rank on ship of “Number 1” was as stupid as their STNG “T” shirts that didn’t fit.

[r9etb]

7. Transporter technology can reassemble a person’s entire being from energy based on what’s stored in a pattern buffer, but somehow it’s impossible to use it to reset a person who’s infected with some hideous disease? What ... haven’t those Star Trek folks ever heard of making a backup?