In article <45f48860$0$16360$88260bb3@
free.teranews.com>,
"Beeblebear"
presidentfsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> "Wouter Valentijn" wrote in message
> news:45f44674$0$333$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>> Beeblebear wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Anyone like to add more to this list?
>>>
>>> Voyager
>>> Enterprise
>>> Anything by Inane Allen : Lost in Inanity
>>> The inane tunnel
>>> Land of the Inanities
>>> and Voyage to the Bottom of the
>>> Barrel.
>>> --
>>
>> The Time Tunnel had its moments. Caught some of it in the mid eighties I
>> think.
>
> It annoyed me when I was 12 that these people would turn up anywhere or
> anywhen in earth history wearing turtleneck sweaters and speaking modern
> american english, and no-one would ever have a problem with this.
They got in trouble over their clothes quite often.
The English? Yeah, that's a problem.
>
>> Voyage warmed me up for science fiction. Liked that sub, the monsters and
>> those flying machines with two cockpits. The characters I do not remember
>> well.
Flying machines with two cockpits??
>
> Voyage annoyed me by having the usual Inane Allen attention to plot details.
> Most weeks the resolution would involve characters who had no way of knowing
> what was happening doing just the rightb thing for no reason. Quite often
> this would look like the Captain was trying to kill the Admiral. Crew
> members would even say, "If you do that you'll kill the Admiral!", but then
> they wouldn't stop him and the day would be saved. If they had established
> that the captain was psychic, this would not have been so annoying.
>
>> When it went off our screens it had made me ready for science fiction in
>> general (I was four of five at the time, so it must have been around 1970
>> or 1971).
>
> Personally I consider that Inane Allen kicked SF in the balls more often
> than any producer/writer person until Brannon and Braga.
Mmm. I'd say 'until Frieberger' but point taken.
>
>> Then came Star Trek... So Voyage was like the Silver Surfer while Star
>> Trek was Galactus (TRUE power).
>
> Doctor Who was my first SF. Star Trek was a poor second when I was 10.
>
> --
> --
> Chris Lyth (clythJFK@
ifis.org.uk - shoot the president to reply)
>
> Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony
