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From: qtm2w@Virginia.EDU ("Quinn T. McCord")
Subject: Re: Battlestar
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:10:44 GMT


	Battlestar Galactica was cancelled after 24 hours of
episodes that ran during the '78-'79 season.  Not much longer,
ABC decided that it had simply been in a bad time slot and gave
Glen Larson permission to continue the series.  What premiered
in January of 1980 was the abomination known as Galactica
1980.  Apollo was dead, Starbuck had been lost on patrol, and
now Boomer was the colonel in Tigh's place.  Although Adama was
still around (bearded), his two main pilots were Troy (Boxey
grown up!) and Dillon.  They also had a 14 year old supergenius
named Dr. Zee aboard, who equals a dozen Wesley Crushers.
Anyway, the Galactica finds Earth.  The series ran for 10
hours, only 1 of which wasn't written at least partially by
Glen Larson!  It was stuck in the kiddie time slot of 7 pm on
Sunday's, so it was really cheesy.
					-Quinn
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From: jasstev@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (stevens jason)
Subject: Re: Final Blake's 7 Episode (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:22:34 GMT

abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick) writes:

>In <1993Jan27.165912.3156@dct.ac.uk> ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig) writes:

>>In article <MfNHalS00Uh_01KgsA@andrew.cmu.edu>, mc7f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael P Collins) writes:
>>> <Still spoilers, no ^L's tho....>
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>>> Anyway, I saw "Blake" (The final episode), and that Blake was real. 
>>> Serving as a bounty hunter on some backwater planet.  Series ends with
>>> him & everyone else dying...

>>Nope. Only Blake was supposedly killed for certain. Avon was still standing
>>as the picture fades out and the others could simply have been stunned.

>Oh come on... when did they ever want Blake and company alive? They only
>let them live (at the time) to have ORAC and their old ship (BTW, what
>happened to the Liberator? I never saw the episode where they switched
>ships.) I think it was left to be understood that the bad guys won, and
>all the good guys died.

  If only I had my Chris Boucher interview on me...the plan was, from
  Boucher's point of view, to have a cliffhanger ending which would lead
  into a seaon 5.
  The shootings were a way of removing an actor or actress if they did 
  not want to return, otherwise the survivors would have been stunned.
  Vila, for example, 'dies' of a cardiac arrest, but Tarrant, after surviving
  the Scorpio's carsh, would not have been in good condition to withstand a  
  a gunshot, stun or no.
  Thus, when it was decided not to Bring Back Blake (capitals intended) the
  ending sufficed as a full stop.
  Only Gareth Thomas at the time wanted to be written out of the show.

  Thats the situation as I understand it from interviews with various people.

  Jason.


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From: asheffie@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
Subject: Fave QL episode
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:16:32 GMT

Oops...  mistake in my last message...  I said that I thought "Temptation
Eyes" was the all-time best QL episode...  I meant to say "KILLIN' TIME"!
Got it??  "KILLIN' TIME" was the best!!

(What on earth made me say "Temptation Eyes"...??  I guess I forgot the
title.  Gee, I've got a memory like a... like a... umm..... never mind.)


-Alex
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From: baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap
Reply-To: baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:45:42 GMT

In article <22JAN199319092066@acad1.alaska.edu>, jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J) writes:
>Why?  They found a perfectly workable canon explanation for why they're all in
>the recent past.  Had they been thinking about they could easily restrict it so
>the location was within N miles of the original site.  That would have worked
>fine.  I was hoping there actually was an internal explanation... or at least
>the admitted lack of one, like the GodOrFateOrTime(tm) explanation.
>
Well, I can try making up one. He's mostly restricted to a limited
distance from the project set-up. However, due to the uncertainty
principal, he may leap into someone who has been within that range at
at time when they are not. (LHO & Vietnam fit perfectly into this 
explanation; "Leaping of the Shrew" is a little bit of a stretch.
Because this is statistically improbable, it only happens a small
percentage of the time.
From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)
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Subject: Re: QL: Female Episodes
Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:06:55 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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MRM122@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>For the record, there are EIGHT episodes where he leaps into women:
>    What Price Gloria?: Secretary fighting harassment in 1961.

Why do people keep saying this episode was fighting harassment.  Has
EVERYONE forgotten that Gloria tried to jump off a building because of
some scum married man??

--
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
  -- Lazarus Long

    Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois
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From: daf31428@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David A. Fleming)
Subject: Re: Old CBS Sat Morning SF show
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:09:39 GMT

william.johnson@um.cc.umich.edu (William Johnson) writes:

>Does anyone out there know(and I'm sure someone does) the title of the 
>70's saturday morning live action SF show that Jimmy Doohan starred in?
>A friend asked me about it and I've been banging my head trying to shake
>it loose ever since.  As since brain damage has started to happen, I would
>be grateful if someone could help.

	It was either Jason of Star Command or Space Academy.  I'm not sure
which one came first.

			Dave Fleming
			daf31428@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: aa811@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande)
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Subject: Re: QL: This season not bad...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:29:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


Yet, if you look back on an ep like MIA or Leap Home, you really
see how, well, different this season is.  And, yes, I'm one of the
ones that think this season bites, for the most part.  Trilogy was
good, and Liberation, but mostly it's been pretty lame.  Also loved
Killin' Time.

Terri in Cleveland
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From: wixer!cactus.org!wixer!pro-smof.cts.com!rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher)
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Subject: Re: Time Trax
Date: 24 Jan 1993 16:01:16 -0600
Organization: The SMOF-BBS: Science Fiction Online Since 1985 [512-467-7317]
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  Time Trax, the dumest show on TV. 
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From: SMOLINSKYD@FSDEC3.WTP.GTEFSD.COM ("DAVE SMOLINSKY-NDHM")
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Subject: Prisoner Companion Book
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:31:00 GMT

Hi all,
I'm new to this list and I hope someone out there can help me.  A few
years ago I was in a book store and saw a book about the Prisoner tv
series.  It had summaries (and possibly the scripts) of the shows and
also explained the *real* meaning of the episode.  Foolishly I assumed 
I'd get back to the store to buy it later. They went under and I have
not been able to find it since.  I believe it was called _The_Prisoner_
Companion_ or something similar.  Sound familiar?  Anyone with info 
can respond to me only, in accordance with the SF Policy.  Thanks in
advance.

Dave Smolinsky
smolinskyd@fsdec3.wtp.gtefsd.com

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From: jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin)
Subject: Re: Fave QL episodes
Organization: Eastern Michigan Lunatic Asylum
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:47:50 GMT

In article <93021.231259MRM122@psuvm.psu.edu> <MRM122@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Whoa!  I thought "The Wrong Stuff" was great, and "The Play's the Thing" an
>absolutely hilarious episode.  "Killin' Time" was on of the best, 2nd or 3rd
>I think.  Best in my book was "Catch a Falling Star".  My votes for poorest
>episodes would have to be "Disco Inferno", "Thou Shalt Not" and "Rebel Without
>a Clue".
>
>                          Marsh

 Mine has to be B**gieman for worst.  I spewed when I watched it.  Literally.


Best:  Take your pick from all the season finales and premiers, and add
'Killin' Time'.

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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: New shows
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 06:01:52 GMT

Robert Fletcher writes:

>  Has anyone heard of a new show that has the main characters jumping to
>different dimension, different Earths, if you will.

Sounds like "Doorways", a George RR Martin project that he's been
working on for a year or so; it was originally supposed to premire
last fall, then this spring, but ABC kept postponing decisions and
delaying things.  The premire episode (2 hr movie I assume) is done,
now its just up to ABC as to when it will air and if it will be made
into a series.  




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From: doug@UC780.UMD.EDU (Deac Moo of the UGC)
Subject: Re: Ds9: The Viral Generation
Reply-To: doug@UC780.UMD.EDU
Organization: The University of Maryland, University College
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:35:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.020833.5982@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>	3.  The ENDING.  While I really like Quark (sp) the Ferengi, 
>	and his interaction w/Odo in this episode (It was *fun* for once) 
>	.. I really thought that the ending.. (ship ejects, blows up..
>	then, "...and here's how we solved the problem, THE END.).. Boy,
>	these guys *really* need to either get some editing lessons, or--
>	preferably--accept the concept of more two-part episodes. 

They do the same lame thing on TNG....

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From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Space Rangers Episodes?
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:12:35 GMT

Could some kind fan please post a list of the titles (and one line
summary if you choose to accept this mission) of the Space Rangers
episodes thus far.  Last week Cleveland was treated to Geraldo 
instead of Space Rangers, but I gather from net postings here that
some places saw a new SR episode.


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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
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Subject: Re: last episode of Galactica
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:11:29 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <C1Irox.338@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>  
morpheus@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Morpheus Nosferatu) writes:
> 
> Those that liked the series should just ignore the "Galactica 1980"  
stuff.
> Larson hated it, and tried to stop it, but the studio won in the  
end.

Well, by and large Larson was right. Battlestar Galactica was
crud, but Galictica 1980 was even worse. But there was one
exception. One of the few decent episodes of Galactica (either
series) was the Starbuck/Ceylon version of Hell in the 
Pacific/Enemy Mine.

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Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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Subject: 1960's sf tv shows
From: <DCS@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:52:12 EST
Organization: Penn State University

I'm new to this net and am interested in discussing SF shows of the 1960s.
Specifically, I am interested in Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea, and the British production, UFO.  I have over 70 episodes of Lost in Space
on tape and would like to have episodes of VBS and UFO.  Also, I read not too
long ago that the entire Lost in Space cast was in Atlantic City for a
science fiction convention.  How does one learn of conventions and the people
who will be appearing?

Thanks........ Bob Clark, Penn State
From: nml@csa.bu.edu (Newton Loui)
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Subject: Time Trax Observations
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:40:00 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department

Some people were wondering who was the actress who portrayed Alyssa.
Her name is Mia Sara.  I saw her in the movie _Legend_ which also
starred Tom Cruise.  Just her performance upon being "transformed" to
the "Dark Side" (those who've seen the movie will understand what I
mean) made me wish I had taped it.  She's most recently starring in a
USA Cable Network Premiere Movie, _Blindsided_.

An observation about the plot of Time Trax but first a ^L brought to
you by our sponsors at SPOILERS:














The basic plot of a person from the future sending people back to the
future from the past via injections reminded me of a movie - I think
it even had a sequel.  I don't remember the title - it was like
_Scanners_ but it wasn't (that's the reason I taped it, I *thought* it
was _Scanners_) and one of the stars was Helen Hunt.

Here's the basic plot for those who are interested at all.  It's the
future and someone has devised a way to travel back in time.  His
purpose is to kill off the ancestors of the Ruling Body.  One cop is
sent back to *his* ancestor to defeat the villain's plot.  When the
person from the future, travels back to his/her ancestor, the
ancestor's mind is put on hold and the descendant's takes over; the
descendant's body remains in the future.  Before the cop leaves, he
kills the villain's body in the future.  When he finds the villain, he
sends him back upstream but tells him that there's no body to return
to.  The method used to send people up and downstream was the
injection of some liquid.  Any comments?

nml
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From: ps70awg@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (mel rupinski)
Subject: Re: Time Trax
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-6664]: rs1.tcs.tulane.edu
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:01:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.032725.14885@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.221002.18303@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jdelacr@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Jorge DeLaCruz) writes:
>>In article <2B5ECE67@ssd0.laafb.af.mil> KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:
>>>Hmmm... we seem to have The Six Million Dollar Man meets Quantum Leap (he 
>>>even has a hologram companion, although Al from QL can stay in focus a lot 
>>>better than Selma can.)
>>>
>>>
>>>But, several questions came to mind as I watched this show:
>>>
>>>1 - Why did they insist on calling it the Smithsonian Institute?  It's the 
>>>Smithsonian *Institution*.
>>
>>   Future Slang?
>
>
>	Ignorance?
>
>		Illiteracy?  (i.e., unable to read the difference between
>				the two words)

Actually, growing up in Baltimore, I took countless trips to the Smithsonian
as a kid (that's where every school field trip ended up), and as far as I
can remember, no one ever referred to it as an *Institution*, I seem to only
recall the Smithsonian *Institute*   But then again, I haven't thought about
it in years. . .

mtr 
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From: dak@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Dorothy Klein)
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Subject: QL: Dr Ruth continuity error
Keywords: glasses
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:06:32 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

SPIOLER for "Dr. Ruth", 1/19/93 Quantum Leap episode, though this is really 
minor....



















	When Dr. Ruth arrives, it is without her eyeglasses -- Al brings her a
replacement pair along with the jacket  (Fermi suits look better on some
folks than others?).
	When the vampire leaps in, the first thing he does is remove
HIS eyeglasses!

	Just an observation,
	Dotty
From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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Subject: Re: QL: Where has Sam leaped to?
Summary: Blood Moon
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:27:26 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

In article <abick.727414593@cunews> abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick) writes:
>Okay, I understood how Dr. Ruth leaped out any someone leaped in. But
>who/what has he leaped into? Does this have anything to do with either
>B**geyman or the Evil Leaper?

sallylb@netcom.com has been posting this for several months now:

  "Blood Moon" 1975 (Tommy Thompson, Alan J. Levi) Sam leaps into a man
  who may or may not be a vampire.  Ian Buchanan (Twin Peaks) guest stars
  as another possible vampire.  Lots of funny lines.

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From: fate@eskimo.com (Craig Stykel)
Subject: Re: Captain Power - Sauron and Blastarr
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:40:17 GMT

mayerson@sidefx.uucp (Mark Mayerson) writes:
> I'm interested to see references to Captain Power popping up in the
> discussions of Deep Space 9 and Space Rangers.  I'm amazed that
> anyone remembers the series and pleasantly surprised to see that
> anybody liked it.
> 
> I was one of five computer animators who animated Sauron and Blastarr,

> the two robot villains.  I'd be curious to hear people's opinions of
them.
> Please, be honest.  I'd be the first to admit the many shortcomings of
> the animation and the series.
> 
> If this thread goes anywhere, I'll jump back in with my perspective
> on the show.
> 
> -Mark Mayerson
I use to watch the show, I found Blastarr, and Sauron, interesting, but
there movements were shaky...
The concept of the show was good, and the robot villians were an 
ineresting idea...
 fate@eskimo.com
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From: ps70awg@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (mel rupinski)
Subject: Re: Time Trax
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-23778]: rs1.tcs.tulane.edu
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:39:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.021519.12424@berlioz.nsc.com> nelson@tiger.nsc.com (Taed Nelson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.181355.23099@cs.tulane.edu>, ps70awg@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (mel rupinski) writes:
>
>> I thing that really impressed me about their vision of the future was the
>> racial slur of "blanco".  Apparently the writers do have a brain and realize
>> that Hispanics will eventually become the ethnic majority in this country,
>> as is evidenced by current population trends, and acted accordingly.  I don't
>> think we would have seen such realism in other sci-fi shows.
>
>While this was good, why was it that 70% of the people we saw in the police
>  station, West Point, and just about everywhere, were white?  It may have
>  been nice in the script, but the casting crew did not follow through.

I've been wanting to follow-up on the racial minority issue since my last    
post, but my system's been down since Friday, and is now just back online.

Anyway, it seems like alot of people didn't like the fact that while Whites
were supposed to be the minority, they still held most of the positions of
power.  I really don't think this is much of a blunder or error or the result
of a lack of continuity, etc.  IMHO, even though whites have become the
minority in terms of number doesn't necessarily mean that they would 
relinquish all of their sources of social power.  I mean, even in reality,
it will probably take quite some time after the whites become a numerical
minority before their positions of power are reduced.  Perhaps this is 
why blanco has become "the most hated racial slur".  Perhaps Hispanics
are upset because the majority of power is still held by a white minority.
Further, this situation bears striking resemblance to South Africa, where
Whites are a significant minority, and not until very recently began to
accept their black brothers as political etc. leaders.

Basically, then, I see no problems with how the production crew has handled
the minority issue.  Perhaps this tension will be dealt with in future 
episodes.  I think it would be interesting to see how Darien will handle
relationships with those of other ethnic background while in 1993.  If I
remember correctly, I think someone told him before he left that he was
no longer a "blanco", but a "honky" (or some such).  I just hope those in
charge do explore some of these issues in future eps.

Just my $.02,

mtr 

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From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:59:42 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J) writes:

>>>At first I thought it was a radius around Arizona or New Mexico where
>>>the Leap project HQ is.
>> 
>>  Do not expect to find an answer to your questions inside any of
>>  the episodes.  The limitations are based on financial reality.
>>  Asking for a canon explanation is futile.

>Why?  They found a perfectly workable canon explanation for why they're all in
>the recent past.  Had they been thinking about they could easily restrict it so
>the location was within N miles of the original site.  That would have worked
>fine.  I was hoping there actually was an internal explanation... or at least
>the admitted lack of one, like the GodOrFateOrTime(tm) explanation.


Why come up with a canon explanation to limit locales?  To limit the eras he
can leap into is one thing, they wanted to avoid ancient history to keep the
show from being "unrealistic" (_The Time Tunnel_, a show from the 1960's which
TV Guide called a cross between _Quantum Leap_ and Mr. Peabody's Wayback
Machine, did just that, and failed miserably).

Using canon to limit _where_ Sam can leap to would limit the show
unnecissarily.  Just think, if there was a distance limit from the Project to
keep him within the U.S., Sam would never have been able to leap to Viet Nam
to save his brother.  They don't leap him to other countries very often
because of the show's budget constraints, and that is enough of an explanation
for me.

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