StillPaisleyCat

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Erica was a young thing in a romantic triangle with a guy heading off to Vietnam in the early 70s. She became a cougar in the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nor do we talk about John Colicos’ character in The Starlost…

Even if Ursula LeGuin had the script credit for that episode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then gatekeeping fans will say it breaks canon, has to be an alternate timeline/universe because they didn’t need those in TOS/TNG.

Oh, wait, that’s one of the criticisms of the environmental suits in Discovery and SNW…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here she is as one eccentric and haunted character, two different versions, in a single episode of SurrealEstate season one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

‘Wackier than TOS on its most TAS day’ …

You packed an awful lot in that comparison.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ogawa was initially a nurse on TNG but decided to become a physician and medical officer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

While he was a Shakespearean actor at Stratford in Canada, and in fact was Christopher Plummer’s understudy before taking on leading roles himself, Shatner’s US career kicked off in the 1950s in film noir. He was considered a quite serious actor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bezos was particularly jerky about it when its established fact that Shatner was one of the celebrity calls that astronauts asked to have in the early days of the space station when communication was more limited.

So this actor, who was an inspiration for astronauts, had been asked to talk to them during their missions and hear their perspectives for morale benefits. But when he finally has his own experience, Bezos assumed no one wanted to hear it. Just tone deaf and uninformed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Star Trek was considered big budget television in the 1960s. It was early peak broadcast television made to show off colour technology.

Roddenberry modeled and pitched the original pilot (The Cage) on MGM’s movie Forbidden Planet, which was the most expensive science fiction movie to date when it was made in the mid 50s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Some engineer friends think it’s failure by design to avoid greater risks - much like a fuse burning out.

But why not do it more safely?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In the 32nd century, ‘rocks’ would just be the result of programmable matter ‘bricking’.

Earlier though…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Dressing is the regional term in many parts of Canada. Sounds like the same may exist in parts of the United States.

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