What polarity can we reverse today? - Page 5

zen. · #41 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 · #42 May 29th, 2001, 03:30 PM

quote:
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 · #43 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. · #44 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 · #45 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 · #46 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.

dogscoff · #47 May 30th, 2001, 09:37 AM

Zenbudo: Wilma Deering... anyone remember "offthink" "offthink"... that had profound effcts on my fragile boyhood=-)

S_J - Red Dwarf UK Version or US Version? Nevr saw th US vrsion but I heard they screwed it up big time.

Tsaarx: I think (Could be wrong) that the tall pompous robot was just a robot to carry around the flashing box.
Thinking about it though, I seem to remember th box being "professor" or "Doctor" something, and I'm not sure it was Kryten / Kryton / Crichton... Ah well.

I think that name might actually predate even Buck Rogers - i think it might have been used in some classic scifi i once read - Aasimov or somone like that. Anyone with a better memory than me care to enlighten us?

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"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

capnq · #48 May 30th, 2001, 05:18 PM

The IMBD cast list for Buck Rogers shows Crichton and Dr. Theopolis. The robot in Red Dwarf was Kryten.

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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, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz · #49 May 30th, 2001, 05:30 PM

quote:
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. · #50 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