Damn. The "oldest" post that Ars Technica linked to yesterday was only a little over four hours older than I am. But the current one is about twenty-three hours older than I am...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
My favorite, anticipating the release of what was then Revenge of the Jedi:
"I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series."
Posted by Phelps (Member # 713) on :
Reviews of Star Trek III. There's also a note about jms working on B5 (1989).
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: Phelps ]
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Great. 20 years of inconsequential shite.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Scary. I ran into some of my own old posts...
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I found the first mention of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
LOL:
quote: Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP From: [email protected] (Clith de T'nir a.k.a. Reid Ellis) Newsgroups: ont.sf-lovers Subject: Star Trek: the Next Generation Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 15:59:00 EDT Article-I.D.: unicus.1034 Posted: Fri Oct 2 15:59:00 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 07:09:18 EDT Reply-To: [email protected] (Clith de T'nir a.k.a. Reid Ellis) Distribution: ont Organization: Unicus Software Inc. Lines: 54 Keywords: star trek the next generation
Well, they can lose the psychic. I'm sorry, but the way they portrayed her ESP etc, it just doesn't mesh with the Star Trek universe. It's too much the plot device. "Hum, we have no idea what's going on. Lt., what are *you* experiencing?" When Spock used it, he has class. Having it as a desperate measure is fine. But a crew member whose only function is to be psychic? Uh-uh.
Lt. Yaaa [or whatever] needs better writing. There's the bare plot- thread of a character there, buried under all that bad writing. Make her better, or else lose her.
The movie was supposed to be filmed in HDTV, and it showed. There were a few scenes where matte lines screamed to be noticed. It looks like filming on film at 30 frames/s and then transferring to video is still the best way to go. Ah well. If it had been filmed and then xferred to video, it would have helped in a number of rough spots..
'Q' -- His "cruel smile" was wayyy too overdone. And why didn't he show up as something more interesting than yet-another-post-nuclear character? Like, say, in a uniform from the old TV series? Or even better, Kirk's uniform from ST4? Or maybe Kruge's uniform. Then the Klingon character would have had a chance to fill us in on some historical background.. Bah.
Now the good stuff:
Captain Picard: Yah. Good stuff. I can live with this. He's cool. He knows when he's being handled a load of crap, and he can deal with his own limitations. "I'm not good with children. However, I am supposed to have an air of congeniality. See to it that I do." [ok, so it's a rough paraphrase..]
Lt. Data: [I *think* he was a Lt. I can't remember everyone's rank just yet.] I like him. I don't care, I still like him. "You may not have pointed ears, but you SOUND like a Vulcan." Yeah.
McCoy's cameo: Well done, althought the makeup was a *bit* much. But what do you expect for a 137 year-old admiral? It gave a sense of continuity.
The Klingon, Lt. Kov-or-something-like-that: Good idea for a character. So are bumby-Klingons the only extant version? Were all those 60's klingons half-breeds, or what? I was worried they'd just have a Klingon-looking yacm [yet another crew member]. But "Sir, I am a Klingon! I cannot leave my commander to fight while I run away with the women and children!" Yowza. I wonder if the Klingon-Federation merging will be touched on in later episodes? And I like the Klingon touch on his uniform. Isn't that strictly out of the sixties-klingons?
--- Why am I posting to ont.sf-lovers? We don't get rec.*! --- Reid Ellis [email protected]
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
700 million fucking messages. Even assuming that people round here are mainly gonna look up SF-related ones, that's still a hell of a lot to go through. I mean, I know some of you have way too much time on your hands, but. . .
Posted by Phelps (Member # 713) on :
This might be good to know for aspiring animators...
From: Ron Thornton Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 12:07:28 +0000 Subject: Using Sausages
I;m looking for three sausage recipes.
1. Irish White Breakfast Pudding. 2. Scottish Beef "Square-Slice" sausage. 3. Speldhurst Sausage ( or similar) South of england.
These have been impossible to find. Thanks
[ December 18, 2001: Message edited by: Phelps ]
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Hmm. The square-slice sausage is nice, although you could just as easily use the sausage patty from an Egg McMuffin and never know the difference. I come from the south of England yet have never heard of a Speldhurst sausage.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I was looking up the first mention of DS9... I think people were bagging it a year before it even premiered! Things haven't changed much! Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, he didn't say "the south of England". He just said "south of England". Which would be... France.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Nixpick!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Or a joke. But, then, everything I say is so inconceiveably hilarious, who can tell?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
You're getting yourself confused with Omega again there Tim.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Easy mistake to make. 8)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Okay, now you're just getting insulting...
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
What do you mean, "just getting"?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Bah!
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
*grin*
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I fart in your general direction, Tim.
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
