The 80's Buck Rogers was Buck Rogers TNG. Duh.

Actually, a series based similarily off the Buck Rogers in the XXVC game that TSR published (and CP2020's Mike Pondsmith wrote) a few years back wouldn't have made a bad idea. It was limited to the solar system, but with heavily terraformed planets (kinda like Cowboy Bebop), artifical intelligences and uploaded personalities, and widespread genetic engineering that results in a profitable New Slavery amongst the elite.

Edited by author 08-08-2003 05:30 PM
Iblis was a great Sufi teacher!

Actually just a computer science major. But thanks for that.

iblis }()+

The 80's Buck Rogers was Buck Rogers TNG. Duh.

Edited by author 08-07-2003 12:29 PM
Tweekie rules! Or was that Twikki?

You mean to tell me that there are people who DON'T think that Galactica was a steaming pile of crap? The mind boggles. What next, Buck Rogers: TNG? killmenow.

Mormon doctrine in space was bound to cause unforseen consequences. Mr. Moore hasn't violated anyone's "Free Agency", so everyone should stay calm and keep the cyber Dannites at bay.

Iblis was a great Sufi teacher!

Um, the various Star Trek spin-offs are continuations of the original series. They all share the same continuity (or, branch off from it, as is the case of Enterprise).

BeeGee 2.0 is a complete reimagining of BeeGee 1.0. The only things that remain the same are some of the names of the major characters, and the basic premise of humans on the run from cyborgs, as the humans search for Earth.

The spacecraft, uniforms, and Cylon designs which originally appeared in BeeGee 1.0 make a couple of "cameo appearances" throughout BeeGee 2.0. In 2.0's continuity, these "old school Galactica" props have been reimagined as elements belonging to 2.0's past history. But BeeGee 2.0 does NOT follow BeeGee 1.0 -- the two do not share continuity. Clear?

Goddamn this is dorky. Must go now to shower off the stench.

Errr, you guys do realize what they did to Star Trek, right?

Those Klingons looked nothing like the original. And when was the last time Picard got some green hottie?

--Dan

>My friends and I in College dubbed this the 'krull >effect'.

That's funny, we call it The Xanadu Effect. After, well, you get the picture...

As per msg8: My friends and I in College dubbed this the 'krull effect'. That is, something you remember from your childhood that when viewed as an adult turns out to be *totally* lame. For us, this was the movie 'Krull' that we all started reminising about. Until we watched it again. oh my god.

When I was a teen everyone would go to "fag jean's" (we were kids) house and watch what he called "Balactica" he would then offer us all a "sammich". Being really stoned made this all the more sureal.

(Thank you for sharing, let hear from someone else who wants to air their past experiences talk.)

(BTW We have determined and decread that when you blog internet chat it is called "blat")

I have the old FASA game of BG. I wonder if it's worth anything.

If I may chime in:

BG was a cheese opera all the way. I watched it faithfully as a kid, but nowadays it doesn't hold up well. Frankly, I'm not sure why SciFi bothered with reviving it -- it doesn't have a mass audience appeal, and those who still love it are pissed at this.

I look at what they're doing to BG in the same way as to what Hollywood did with the "Lost in Space" movie -- retelling the original story but bringing its various elements up to date.

I think it's interesting how the new production incorporates the design of the old space ships and Cylons into its mythology -- the designs of the Galactica, Vipers, Cylons, etc. (that appeared in the original series) are said to have existed 40 years prior to the events seen in the new mini-series.

On a related note, this means that the "modern-day" Cylons look nothing like the ones from the original series. The Cylons as we remember them (from what I've been able to research) don't appear much in this new version -- instead, they look like humans.

If you really want to see deeply these insane obsessions run go to IMDB and look at all the posted goofs for movies like Spiderman and Star Wars, etc.

TDonaghe: No kidding. I mean, bankrolling a deliberately careful, plodding, literal adaptation of Dune, possibly the War and Peace of Sci-Fi? That network is obviously shooting for the bumpkin audience.

this is the funniest shit ever.

i'm so glad that people in the sci-fi community in general are finally learning to ignore the whining of insane fanboys/girls.