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It might be interesting to redo The Starlost. For those who have never seen it, the show is set on Earthship Ark. The ship was sent off into space because the Earth was going to be destroyed. It is a huge ship consisting of a network of interconnected biodomes. Each dome takes about three days to walk across, and sealed within each dome is a human settlement. Unfortunately, the ship was struck by an asteroid which destroyed the bridge and knocked the ship off course. Instead of taking a small handful of generations to get to the destination, the ship has been drifting for centuries, and is now on a collision course with a star. The biodome inhabitants have lost all concept of being on a ship. Each settlement developed differently.

One particular biodome, has become vaguely Amish: technologically backward, agrarian, and totalitarian. Three of these people manage to find their way out of their dome. They wander the interconnecting tubes, and discover the truth about the ship. The series follows their journey of discovery.

Although the concept was great (thanks to Harlan Ellison, author of ST-TOS:City on the Edge of Forever, and one of the main conceptual people behind Babylon 5), the cheap budgets and lousy effects capabilities of 1970s videotape technologies made the original series into one of the worst SF shows in history. Even worse than Space 1999. With today's tech, and with a proper budget, I think this show might make a decent series.

I thought Wall.E really caught the appearance of an 1970's sci-fi. A cross between V.I.N.CENT from "The Black Hole", E.T. , and the two robots from Logan's Run, and Short Circuit (not really 1970's though

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I remember watching this as a little kid. I was young enough not to know it was bad SF even though it was thought up by Bova and Ellison.

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Eugenics suck.

"How am I supposed to get to these seeds in a post-apocalyptic world?"

That's what happened to Farscape.

I agree that putting "To Be Continued..." at the end of Andromeda would serve more to scare viewers than to entice them, and like you said, the show initially had a lot of potential. I love the concept of interfacing with the ship's AI as a person on a screen, or as the android. I first saw that concept on The Starlost , and I'm sure it'll surface again, perhaps in reality this time. We are getting pretty good at drawing people. Now all we have to do is animate them... Oh, and develop artificial intelligence.

I'll take the job, as long as they send Betty1 and Betty2 along!

But will he be washed clean of being Oro on Starlost?

But will he be washed clean of being Oro on Starlost?

Captain Adam Quark http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/quark/ and the UGSP are available to haul this list away AS garbage.

Let me throw The Starlost onto your list. Earthship Ark has got to be the largest vessel built by humans on any TV show.

Yes, and if you read Harlan Ellison's original screenplay, or the novelization he did with Edward Bryant, Phoenix Without Ashes, the size of the ship as described at that website grossly overstates what the series actually described. In Ellison's original screenplay, the domes were supposed to be 50 miles across; in the series, they were five miles across. When Ellison visited the production studio, he found them building the bridge set -- which wouldn't be needed until the final episode (their rationale? "He still has to find the back-up bridge"). Ellison got so fed up with the idiocies of the production that he divorced himself from it and made them use one of his pen names, 'Cordwainer Bird', as the author of the screenplay (his way of 'giving the bird' to them). The Starlost could not, in my opinion, even approach the top 50.

Let me throw The Starlost onto your list. Earthship Ark has got to be the largest vessel built by humans on any TV show.

Quark? I thought it was cancelled in 1978.

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Now we can get the production quality of The StarLost. (For those that haven't seen the show, don't bother. For other starlost fans, I'm afraid it'll never fly again, even from the backup bridge.) (more)

Anyway ... I'd love to see this happen, particularly if T'Pol were in town during shooting. Would there be any way for 7 of 9 to make a Borg cross-over episode? (Seeing that the show has already jumped the shark, it could happen. Imagine them allowing the engineer to have sex, and in the first season, even.)

Come on up, Enterprise. Live long and prosper in the great white north.

For manned Mars missions, maybe we should send Hell Tanner and that killer RV from Damnation Alley? (Read Roger Zelazny's book before watching that movie.)

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Chris Mattern

I always thought being able to drive one of these landmaster vehicles would be cool.

No, I think perhaps he's referring to Star Lost!

=)

Insofar as instant/SMS messaging in English is also concerned (also discussed in the article), surely nothing more advanced than Pig Latin (known to confuse many poor parents... for a while) would be necessary to circumvent this.

(I'd thought this was a novel idea, but I understand from a quick Google that it's been done for similar reasons...)

That bring's back memories from the 1970's, even though I only had the chance to see a couple of episodes. There was the episode when there was one women who was being taken care of by a robot caretaker which had dusty lenses. There is an episode guide out in WWW-land. And don't forget the Simpsons and Family Guy versions of the movie.

That bring's back memories from the 1970's, even though I only had the chance to see a couple of episodes. There was the episode when there was one women who was being taken care of by a robot caretaker which had dusty lenses. There is an episode guide out in WWW-land. And don't forget the Simpsons and Family Guy versions of the movie.

They speak Latin in Latin America. Pig-Latin actually - the language has degenerated somewhat over the last 2000 years.

For translations, here is a Windows shareware program and here is a website which translates online.

You're thinking about Ark 2. If you look well, you'll notice several differences between the Ark and the Damnation Alley "landmaster" vehicles. According to THIS GUY the Ark 2 vehicle was taken apart to become another prop. He's pretty sure about it, and appears to anger easily. :) Still, they ARE both pointy, multi-wheeled vehicles.

Now in working order!

For all you clueless moderators out there, this is actually a very funny post. The guy is writing in pig latin because it is better than Microsoft's!!! Let me translate:

Hey there Slasdot dudes. I'm writing in pig latin because it's way better than the best security systems that Microsft has to offter... And no I'm not joking! One time I sent a supposedly 128-bit encrypted email to my boss (it was for his eyes only), but an Outlook bug prevented it from being encrypted. By serendipity, I had also managaed to CC one of my coworkers... No problem if the encryption would have worked right? Unfortunately, the coworker (whom the email was about) read the email and reported it to my section manager. To make a long story short, I ws put on indefinite leave for two weeks and then transferred to a different area of the company, complete with a lower salary and a shitty job. All because Microsoft can't program beyond a third grade level. (On the plus side, I ended up leaving the company three months later and started by own business. Haven't looked back since).

Phew!!! How come English-To-Pig Latin translators are easy to find, but you have to translate back by hand? Anyway, enjoy! (oh yeah and, MS sucks!!)

I prefer to use google for all my pig latin needs.

Yes. If it's trapped in the gravity well of the planet, it's a moon.

NORAD now tracks on the order of 10,000 man-made earth moons, and there are uncouned numbers of things they can't resolve on a RADAR (things less than a few inches across).

Our next great space project should be an orbital garbage truck.

When the request for nominations went out, I posted my nomination, QuarkXPress for OS X, in the previous /. discussion, and also submitted it to Wired.

Lo and behold, not only is it #7 on the list, but they quoted me in the article!

To quote Bart Simpson, "There's only one thing to do at a moment like this: strut!" <cues up "Stayin' Alive">

~Philly

When the request for nominations went out, I posted my nomination, QuarkXPress for OS X, in the previous /. discussion, and also submitted it to Wired.

Lo and behold, not only is it #7 on the list, but they quoted me in the article!

To quote Bart Simpson, "There's only one thing to do at a moment like this: strut!"
<cues up "Stayin' Alive">

~Philly

In 1980 (but I'm sure I saw it in theatres in 1978) , BG was the cats meow, but watching it a few years back even I was cringing.

Wanna see the really worst sci-fi? Go here

Haven't we see this all before on The Starlost?

You can now have it play a sound on receipt of any incoming mail.

I will go to Hell for this. Sorry.

Can not anyone remember one of the most innovative shows of the 70's? The one that addicted at least myself to science fiction?

Quark

Star Wars? Nah. Quark was the way to clean up space.

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Capt. Ron