What polarity can we reverse today?

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz · #1 May 30th, 2001, 05:30 PM

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
That's probably where they got the name Kryten from, for the android on 'Red Dwarf'

The name comes from J.M.Barrie's play "The Admirable Chrighton". A Jeeves-like butler who becomes de facto leader of a shipwrecked family.

IIRC Buck Rogers just used the name as a generic butler/servant name. In Red Dwarf the use more closely matches the spirit of the play - vastly more competent servant doomed by programming/class system to serve ignorant and ineffectual masters.

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zen. · #2 May 30th, 2001, 07:05 PM

Ah, very informative! Sounds like a very interesting play. Well-written, I take it? My gf is a HUGE Red Dwarf fan. I think she has all but one season on tape or something.

dogscoff: Okay, you've piqued my interest... what's 'offthink'?!

. My Buck Rogers memories are very hazy, as I was still in the single-digit age when it was on. All I remember is I was pretty excited when Gil Gerard started up 'Sidekicks' with Ernie Reyes Jr. heh heh

Back to the Star Trek angle, though... is anyone else disappointed that they're taking it BACK 150 years or so? And here I was looking so forward to this whole universe they've created to be explored further. Then again, maybe this'll be a good break. At least all the people tired of the pseudo-scientific solutions to everything can look forward to good 'ole-fashioned fisticuffs to resolve things again.

Although I wanted more transphasic torpedoes! (Oops, wrong thread.

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zen

raynor · #3 May 30th, 2001, 08:09 PM

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dogscoff: Okay, you've piqued my interest... what's 'offthink'?! .

Buck and Wilma encountered an alien race composed soley of men with telekinetic powers. They were curious about the Colonel.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz · #4 May 30th, 2001, 08:22 PM

Apropos wrong threads...

I see from her IMDB bio that Erin Gray (Col. Wilma Deering) was on the shortlist to play Cpt Janeway in Voyager.

I might even have watched Voyager if she'd got the part. Something about Kate Mulgrew really irritates me.

geoschmo · #5 May 30th, 2001, 08:37 PM

First year I was really wishing Janeway would get killed in one of those numerous shuttle accidents. But she really grew on me.

VOY definetly fit the TOS, TNG mold of the first season the characters being paper thin. You would think that will the years of planning that go into these things they could get off to a better start. It always seems to be season 2 or 3 before the writers get used to the characters.

DS9 in my mind was the only one to get off the blocks running. Must have had something to do with the non-moving space station as opposed to deep-space ship allowing for deeper examination of the regular characters.

I was a little disapointed at first with the new show not being the Star-Fleet academy series I had heard rumored. Of course that is probably a good thing. They prolly would have turned that into "Star Trek : 90210" and I would have to vomit.

Geo