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In Space:1999, the Alcubierre warp-drive was known as the Queller Drive.

There was an episode about this exact subject (the drive killing everyone) in the first season episode, Voyager's Return: http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/spaceyr1eg3.html#Episode%20Twelve.

In an almost unbelieveable coincidence, I happened to be watching it at the exact moment this Slashdot story came in. Spooky.

My favorite episode was the one where Commander Koenig figures out Eva Marie-Saint had shot Cary Grant with blanks, then he and James Mason decide to throw her out of an airplane somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.

In Space:1999, the Alcubierre warp-drive was known as the Queller Drive. There was an episode about this exact subject (the drive killing everyone) in the first season episode, Voyager's Return: http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/spaceyr1eg3.html#Episode%20Twelve. In an almost unbelieveable coincidence, I happened to be watching it at the exact moment this Slashdot story came in. Spooky.

I believe that the Apollo 8 S-IVB was blown up by SHADO because it was harboring UFOs.

But how many generations had their kids sitting in front of, essentially, puppet-shows (or some other analog equivalent) all day, every day?

Mine. I clearly remember all the same scaremongering moral panics about kids watching TV. My mother used to have to drag me kicking and screaming into the outside world, or I would literally watch puppet shows any chance I got. Then once I was 10, they couldn't get me away from the computer.

Strangely enough, I didn't grow up intellectually retarded or lacking in imagination.

Cripes - half the fun of watching old sci-fi (hell, half the fun of reading it too) involves the whole attempt at special effects given for that period in time.

Exactly! Try comparing the original Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons with the New Captain Scarlet CGI animation. They appear to be faithful to the original designs etc. (I haven't really watched either at length) but you can't replace the marionettes with CGI characters and not lose something - even if their "acting" is more wooden than the originals. Imagine a fully CGI version of The Muppets and you get the idea.

Since this is about SciFi nostalgia trips, I preferred Blake's 7 to Star Trek, despite the wobbly sets; the Liberator kicks Enterprise's butt! ;-)

For a sneak peek at what happens next, see the classic Thunderbirds episode "Lord Parker's 'Oliday" :) http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/tbirds2eg.htm l#Episode%20Four

This makes the purple-haired moonbabes sad...

Seriously, has anyone given any thought to NOT fucking with the moon?

Plus, what happens when the inevitable nuclear explosion happens and the moon gets shot out of orbit? Oh, wait, soon after we get Maya. She's the one on the right.