Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)

[Puke]

Originally posted by Major Tom:
Realistically, when individuals emigrate to other places they tend to do it with people they are familiar with, who tend to be from their same culture, so you will probably expect to find many ethnically restricted planets.

Just what the future needs. La Terre Francaise.

[Major Tom]

Originally posted by Puke:

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Originally posted by Major Tom:
Realistically, when individuals emigrate to other places they tend to do it with people they are familiar with, who tend to be from their same culture, so you will probably expect to find many ethnically restricted planets.

Just what the future needs. La Terre Francaise.

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Either that or every planet is populated by.....

AMERICANS!!

[Puke]

Only if you're lucky

If you're not, we might end up with (blindly spins globe to find a country to descriminate against) OCEANIAIANS!

hmm, all those tourism dollars must translate into a sizeable budget for space travel, in the future. either that, or they are the only survivors when the rest of us nuke each other in 1995. Oh wait, that didnt happen. DARN YOU, SARAH CONNER!

[capnq]

Ooh, there's an idea: a show set in the universe of Keith Laumer's "Corps Diplomatique Terrestrielle" (or however it's spelled).

Probably have to be animated; most of the alien races Retief encountered weren't even vaguely humanoid.

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Now here is a serious, but mute, complaint about FireFly. Why haven't we scene more alien enviroments. Sure planets will develop along similar lines, but at different rates and try different things naturally. The argument against this is that humans like to extinct native species and move our own junk it.

Eviction of the weakest indeed...

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Hadrian Tyrael S. Aventine:
Now here is a serious, but mute, complaint about FireFly. Why haven't we scene more alien enviroments. Sure planets will develop along similar lines, but at different rates and try different things naturally. The argument against this is that humans like to extinct native species and move our own junk it.

The biggest problem with creating exciting aliens and alien environments is COST. Unfortunately our favourite Sci-fi shows rarely have large enough audiences to bring in that kind of money.

[gregebowman]

my main complaint about sci-fi shows, especially Star Trek, is that everyone knows the same language. I know on Star Trek the universal translator is supposed to be on and that's why everybody understands each other on a first contact situation. Bull!! If the computer has never encountered the language before, how can it understand it? At least on Enterprise they're trying to show how it's supposed to be done when encountering a race for the first time. I just wish more of these shows would pay attention to that kind of detail.