What polarity can we reverse today?

dogscoff · #1 May 25th, 2001, 03:42 PM

Mmmm... Ensign Robin Lefler...

Good points well made. The trouble with Wesley was that he was created not primarily as an exploration of the child genius but as a cynical act of tokenism, hoping to give the show appeal to a younger audience. The boy genius bit was more of a plot device than a part of his character. After all, how could they justify his presence in the show if he wasn't allowed on the bridge?

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

zen. · #2 May 25th, 2001, 04:00 PM

And whatever did happen to Picard's standing order of no children on the bridge? Ah well. At least he's not a Daggit or a Twiki.

zen (geezin' again)

DirectorTsaarx · #3 May 29th, 2001, 03:30 PM

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Originally posted by zenbudo:
And whatever did happen to Picard's standing order of no children on the bridge? Ah well. At least he's not a Daggit or a Twiki.

zen (geezin' again)

Kriten (I think that's the spelling) was far worse than Twiki - especially since Kriten showed up in the Last season or so of Buck Rogers, which was definitely the weakest set of episodes... ah, whatever happened to Gil Gerard? Did playing Buck end his career?

capnq · #4 May 29th, 2001, 03:42 PM

According to the Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/

Gil Gerard has appeared in eight TV movies, five TV series, four theatrical films, and one direct-to-video since Buck Rogers. Of the eighteen listings, I think I've even heard of five of them.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

zen. · #5 May 29th, 2001, 08:59 PM

OMG...DirectorTsaarx, you're right! I had almost totally blocked out the...what was it...Searcher? Where they took out a ship to explore the universe or something with his friend Tonto...er, I mean Hawk.

Kriten was that little talking flashing box, right? Wasn't there a whole council of them? You're Evil for dredging up these unholy memories.

About the only good thing that came out of that was Wilma Deering. It's nice to think that in this day and age, if that show was around, there would have been a spinoff by now.

zen

P.S. All those talking boxes remind me of the pickled heads in Futurama now that I think about it. heh heh

Suicide Junkie · #6 May 29th, 2001, 10:05 PM

That's probably where they got the name Kryten from, for the android on 'Red Dwarf'

add: red dwarf --> a TV comedy show on showcase sometimes. Features Lister as the Last human alive in the universe (during most episodes).

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DirectorTsaarx · #7 May 29th, 2001, 10:45 PM

I don't remember the talking boxes; Kriten/Kryten/whatever was the tall robot that always sounded pompous. I specifically remember an episode where they had to rebuild his "positronic brain", and he quoted the three Asimov robot laws when they finally got him fixed.