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Tonight's Sci-Fi Listing
04/22/05 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 04/22/2005 6:08:00 AM PDT by KevinDavis

Tongiht Sci-Fi listing:

Star Trek Enterprise: Part 1 of 2, this is the mirror universe episodes...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: mirror; startrek
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To: dts32041
B5 - the only Sci-fi series to show a program from the guys who kept the station running, the real maintenance guys, running around with brooms, and tools and lunch boxes..........I don't remember the title, but that is the best piece of science fiction writing ever.

"A View From The Gallery"

61 posted on 04/22/2005 7:33:50 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat (This tagline space for rent - cheap!)
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To: KevinDavis

Will no one on this thread give a shout out for FARSCAPE?


62 posted on 04/22/2005 7:34:17 AM PDT by wishuponastarr
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To: The G Man

Yes, the new Battlestar Galactica is one of the best Sci-fi series I have watched.


63 posted on 04/22/2005 7:35:31 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: KevinDavis
Who said TV Execs has brains..

I'll second that sentiment. I still haven't forgiven Sci-Fi for cancelling Mystery Science Theater 3000, arguably the best TV show of the 90's. I understand that Barry Diller personally made that decision.

64 posted on 04/22/2005 7:35:52 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: Jack Deth

Yep. And, in spite of a budget, they did some really nice things: for instance, they were totally out of the "bumpy-head" Star Trek template. Alien makeup was relatively very imaginative and normal looking. And the acting was extraordinary; I think of the nothing that Worf was, versus what intense feeling Andreas Katsulas got through the G'kar makeup. Same with Londo.

Then there was the fact that jms, an atheist, knew identifiable human religion wouldn't just be swept away by glorious humanism (Roddenberry's pipedream).

We've re-watched eps that I remembered as not being the best, and always there's more than I recalled.

Yep, great series. Pity jms had to juggle things under the constant threat of cancellation.

Dan


65 posted on 04/22/2005 7:36:07 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: KevinDavis

Unless they water it down next season, I consider the new BG every bit the equal to B5.


66 posted on 04/22/2005 7:37:34 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: wishuponastarr
Will no one on this thread give a shout out for FARSCAPE?

I will. I'm slowly making my way through the DVD's and am halfway through season 2. Great show. Thank heaven for Netflix - have you seen how much they are selling theses discs for?

67 posted on 04/22/2005 7:37:46 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: The G Man

Sorry to disagree, but I think BatGal is simply 7th Heaven with laser shots.


68 posted on 04/22/2005 7:40:03 AM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: MizSterious

I want to PUKE on Sci-Fi sometimes though.

Looking for something to watch, and the wealth of GOOD Sci-Fi out there, and yet outside 'nighttime' Sci-Fi likes to run NEVER ENDING lame Animal/Human Monster of the week BS.

Cross a mosquito with a man... BAM "Mosquito Man" is born
How about a REAAAALY big Crocadile... YEAH... we'll call it "The Croc!"
Next up... REAAALY big rats... yeah "Rat Swarm" is made
Then, lets see... how about a half octopus, half wale sea-monster.. yeah "OctoDeath" is created
After that, lets do a story an a freakisly big and smart SNAKE... wow... thats origian! "Snake Attacks"

Bleh... I'd rather them pick up all of these shows and just run syndicaited SciFi series like Trek, B5, BGS, FireFly, Space:Aove&Beyond, Earth2, V, etc...


69 posted on 04/22/2005 7:42:57 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (.)
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To: MizSterious

Brannon and Braga won't let that happen. SCiFi Channel might make them look like the idiots they are.


70 posted on 04/22/2005 7:43:27 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: KevinDavis
With the exception of Babylon 5 which I think it the best Sci - Fi show ever.

I'll second that.

71 posted on 04/22/2005 7:44:02 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: BobinIL

[Quote]Yes, the new Battlestar Galactica is one of the best Sci-fi series I have watched.


I will have to qualify myself that I root for the Cylons because the human characters are sooooo PC they deserve to be exterminated


72 posted on 04/22/2005 7:46:16 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: KevinDavis

I missed the season premiere and I'm going to miss this too (work 3rd shift). Are they going to replay any of these episodes? I really want to see the final season.


73 posted on 04/22/2005 7:50:15 AM PDT by Capitalism2003
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To: doc30
Just becasue it wasn't turned into an never ending multiple-franchise and it stuck to its 5 year arc is no reason to dis it.

That's what made it so good, the continuity and the complexity of the story. It was designed as a five year story. I'd like to see more sci-fi shows like that. You can't develop an interesting and deep plot when everything has to get resolved in an hour.

74 posted on 04/22/2005 7:50:31 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: nuke rocketeer; All

Agreed. Atlantis is good, but I don't it going to last as long as Sg1.. Sg1 is losing steam. Next season maybe the last we shall see. It depends how well it does without RDA


75 posted on 04/22/2005 7:50:38 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: dts32041

I remember that B5 episode and it was a good one, too. Can't remember the name of it either, but it did give a good view of what it would be like for us average people to live in such a place. I particualt liked seeing the Brown sections, which were basically ghettos in space. No other show ever showed how the working class and poor would be living in the future. All the other shows had basically elite characters, no working stiffs. BG is showing more of that, like with the Crew Chief and the maintenance workers on the Galactica.


76 posted on 04/22/2005 7:51:15 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Capitalism2003; All

It depends on your local market.. In Chicago, they replay Star Trek on Sunday nights at 9:00 pm..


77 posted on 04/22/2005 7:52:24 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: doc30

I guess that would be the space steerage


78 posted on 04/22/2005 7:53:29 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: KevinDavis

"From what I understand Star Trek will be gone for a couple of years."

Yep.

"Also Rick Berman's contract is going to expire in 06"

YEP!

"he would no longer be producing Star Trek.. Someone else would"

Yep!!

"I think that is why the canceled the show."

Yep!!!

"I think the next Trek is going to be either on Spike Tv or Sci Fi."

Ummmm, no. But you were on a pretty good role up to then!


79 posted on 04/22/2005 7:56:33 AM PDT by Gwaihir
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To: FreedomNeocon

Don't forget Frankenfish...I will never get those 2 hours back. But when it's raining outside on a Saturday night and my wife is studying to get into pharmacy school, it was better than taking the dog for a walk. I have no idea who comes up with this. But a friend of mine says his teenage bots love those monster-du-jour movies on Sci-Fi.


80 posted on 04/22/2005 7:56:50 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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