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From: paris@zygon.dev.cdx.mot.com (Gregory M. Paris)
Subject: Re: Time Trax
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, Massachusetts
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:16:50 GMT

>But, several questions came to mind as I watched this show:

One thing I'd like cleared up is this business about "parallel universe
theory."  I'm happy to accept that it was a parallel universe that they
travelled to (and created?) by going into the past, which I figured was
what they were saying when they kept repeating the phrase "parallel
universe theory".  But if so, then how could they communicate with
the future (i.e., the future of the original universe) by use of
want ads?  Hmmm...

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From: SCP21080@novell1.rtc-carlow.ie
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: SF on tv
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:20:20 GMT

Hi, I am interested in any information you might have on Star Trek
the tv series (ie. the classic and the next generation).  My user id.
is scp21080@Novell1.RTC-Carlow.ie
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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Space Rangers is _good_ )short(
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:23:35 GMT


	Chalk another point up on the Space Rangers 3rd episode
	(Boon vs. the Lizardmen).  I had to videotape it and delay
	watching it.  

	It was Good!!

	Action, bad jokes, weird, mysterious aliens, funky looking
	ships (flashing lights back in fashion?) and strange new
	cultures!  What more could you want?

	>well, better writing, but hey.  It's *fun* which is more
	than can be said for others<

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From: qtm2w@Virginia.EDU ("Quinn T. McCord")
Subject: Re: The Horta, was: MY GAWD! It look like an Alien!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:49:37 GMT

	I think the Horta was originally written for some
non-Star Trek venue.  The wearer of the suit showed it to Gene
Coon (not Roddenberry) who liked it enough to write a script
for it.
						-Quinn
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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: Re: QL: Postponed til...?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:50:13 GMT

In article <26JAN199322092047@gergo.tamu.edu> dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin) writes:

(when's the vampire episode?)

SIGH.

People have NOT been reading the memos again.

I posted last week that "Blood Moon" is scheduled to air on February
9th. Yes, we have to wait that long. It's due to NBC mucking about
with its schedule due to the upcoming sweeps.

Sally
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From: stile@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Howard Wilson)
Subject: Tomorrow People: WHEN?
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:14:53 GMT


The last information I got regarding Nickelodeon showing the (new)
Tomorrow People stated January 25-28.  The TV Guide knows nothing of this,
and considering I pretty much watch Nickelodeon for Ren & Stimpy, I have
seen NO commercials for it (and to think I used to watch Nick ALL the time,
the old TP...the Third Eye...I loved 'em!).  WILL it be shown?  Will it be
shown next week?  If not, when?  If it won't be shown at all, which office
do I go to to start screaming at the top of my lungs?  Ok, actually an address
will suffice.  I'll send mail.
 
Howard Wilson II

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From: mary@wam.umd.edu (Mary Louise Cassidy)
Subject: Time Trax premiere, 2nd part
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:00:15 GMT

Argghhh...help!!!  My TV viewing area (Roanoke, VA) is showing
Time Trax on the Fox station (WJPR 21).  They split the thing up
over 2 nights.  Wed. at 10 and Thursday at 10.  I missed the 2nd
part last night at 10, I had figured it wouldn't be on until next week..silly me for
not getting a TV Guide!!  What did I miss??  I caught the last 15 minutes, but what
about before that???  Email is fine..as to not clutter...

Also, does anyone know what the regular schedulke will be for TT on
WJPR 21 in Roanoke, VA??  Thanks!!!

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From: jhildebr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: Time Trax
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:40:52 GMT

In article <26j39!k@rpi.edu> ruderg@aix.rpi.edu (Gregory Allen Ruderman) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.141142.21903@athena.mit.edu> amd@space.mit.edu (Ann M. Davis) writes:
>>Actually I loved it.  You can't build a story on SPFX alone.  The SF
>>elements created a solid atmosphere and background for the story. I liked
>>the acting and the actors.  I thought it was very well done.

	I have to majorly disagree here. It was all surface level stuff which
fails to hold when you look further. If they tried for all flash with no
real substance I wouldn't have minded. But they tried to add substance and
failed which is worse.

>>Points I got a kick out of:
>>SPOILERS
>>
>>
>>
>>The Pentagon as a prison.  I found this very believable.
>>
>>The modern version of peepholes for doors.
>>
>>Selma's disguise as a credit card

	All cute one-off lines or visual gags. Building a believable future
society is going to take a lot more than that.

>	I enjoyed the allusions to whites as a minority.  probably the most
>realistic thing in the whole intro.  And the fact that they paid more than 
>just lip service to it.  Take another look at the compositions of the crowd
>at the U.N. President's assassination...

	The fact that that particular scene is the exception not the rule
shows that it was lip service of a most obnoxious type. Among the police
officers, the scientists, heck even the wealthy criminals check out the 
racial mix. Looks much more current than 2193. If they had done this right
it would have been a great touch to add to the series. As it is it would
have been much better if they hadn't brought it up at all.

	Too much of the story looked like current day America with a few
do-dads thrown on top and a few lines trying to make things appear to
have changed. (Look at the difference in clothes between 1793 and 1993 and
then compare the clothes in 1993 and 2193 portrayed in the series. Hardly
any major changes. Certainly not enough.) The whole thing wound up falling
way short on lots of grounds.

--
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From: jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J)
Subject: Re: QL: Two-Faced Reviews: Dr. Ruth
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:11:00 GMT

>>> - Clarence Thomas is innocent until proven guilty, and the testimony of

>Well, I'm not going to go into all the reasons why I believe Anita Hill.  I

As for me, I don't see how that brief kiss with history has ANYTHING to do with
Anita Hill's truth or falsehood.  I could just as easily see it as her thinking
"Someone else is experiencing this, maybe I should say something" as "Hmmm,
that might be a good way to get someone in trouble" [fill in your own
motivation here].  All the QL-Anita did was hear someone talk about the
subject, NOT hear any result or resolution of the issue...  What's everyone so
worked up about?
From: clayson@xenomorph.Eng.Sun.COM (Mathew Clayson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Space Rangers 3rd Episode, fan
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:39:07 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
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Yes, the show is getting better. I've enjoyed it from the first episode, but then
I also enjoyed Wizards and Warriors, the cheesy Fantasy parody from the 80s. I wish
I could get copies of those.

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From: toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten)
Subject: Mad About You/Newhart 
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-13449]: bourbon
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering, Tulane Univ.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:34:44 GMT

	In the 1/28 episode of "Mad About You" the characters 
visit a Vermont inn for the weekend.  Was it my imagination, or
was that actually the Stratford Inn, at least in the exterior
shots.  "Newhart" was an MTM program.  "Mad About You," however,
is not.  Was this simply a nod to a classic program, or should
I see about getting my eyes checked?

					Derek Toten
					toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu

e
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From: mre@kepler.unh.edu (MikE '93)
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Subject: Re: QL question (Insignificant SPOILER on Dr. Ruth episode)
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:37:38 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
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In article <93021.083251RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I want to know how the hell did Dr. Ruth's body (albiet with Sam's mind)
>take a couple of hammers to the jaw and real nasty shove into some kitchen
>applience by some guy who looks to be about 6'0", 180 lbs and then come back
>and kick his ass?

NONONONONO!!!  That's not her body and Sam's mind; it's SAM's body and mind
both (most of the time for the mind), surrounded by Dr. Ruth's aura.  

>Needless to say, I was laughing my head off when I was watching the
>climactic fight scene!  Heh hah!

You should have been...when and ONLY when the scene was seen through the
mirror.

--MikE...same goes for the traffic stunt.

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From: ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:50:49 GMT

slam@electrical.uwaterloo.ca writes:
 - What's supposed to happen is a few 'movies' will come out until the
 - 1993 Fall season starts.  THen B5 will become a weekly series.

That is incorrect. The pilot will air in late Feb/early March, and
that is it. The series will go into production based on viewer
responce, and th rating the show gets. The series can start as early
as the end of summer, or perhaps not until January '94. I'm betting
on later summer myself, since I expect Babylon-5 to have a terrific
responce.


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From: scoile@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Steve Coile)
Subject: Re: Galaxy Rangers (list) Question
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:27:50 GMT

Does anyone know if episodes are available on video?  How 'bout the sound-
track?  I loved the songs!

 Steve "Stevers!" Coile                    scoile@gmuvax[{.BITNET|[2].gmu.edu}]
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From: buc@world.std.com (Quantum Buc)
Subject: Tomorrow People: Tonight!!!
Summary: It's on, and it's on tonight (and this week!)
Keywords: Tomorrow People jaunt
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:48:52 GMT

Okay!  Just got off the phone with Nickelodeon.  They had no explanation as
to why it's not listed in the TV Guide, but the Tomorrow People (the new
show) will be on tonight from 8:00 - 9:00 PM (U.S. EST), and then 
Tuesday-Thursday from 8:00 - 8:30 PM.  

(This week only. No comment on rerunning it.)

Hope that sets some panicked hearts at rest. (It did mine!)
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From: bz978@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles E Gibbs)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Appending on Space Rangers and Galaxy Rangers
Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:39:29 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bz978@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles E Gibbs)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Some additional notes to what I posted a couple of days ago.

1) Only the Centurions are on the Cartoon Network.  The Galaxy Rangers may 
   still be in syndication somewhere, but it appears that your best shot
   would be videotape or laser disc.

2) My theory on the Space Rangers/Galaxy Rangers connection went bust after
   watching the few episodes I have on tape.  Outside of similarities between
   the spaceships used on SR and GR (not to mention a vague similarity between
   Fort Hope and BETA Headquarters), nothing is definite between them.
   A friend of mine has suggested that SR is a direct rip from a movie
   entitled "Space Raiders".  Since I only vaguely recalling this movie,
   I would appreciate any netter who has seen both Space Rangers and Space
   Raiders to post and either confirm or deny this theory.

Chuck Gibbs
gibbsc@ac.grin.edu
From: daniel@polaris.async.vt.edu (Daniel Pawtowski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: SPACE RANGERS fans anonymous
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:33:48 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <1993Jan23.051059.20337@nmsu.edu> dleland@dante.nmsu.edu (LELAND) writes:
>lot of old sci fi shows died aborning on the networks (anybody remember
>the old Quark show, which was a parody? I don't think it lasted last the
>pilot, but it was FUNNY). I think the characters need some fleshing out,
>
>Queen of Swords
>dleland@nmsu.edu 

Actually, it did last past the pilot.  I remember watching several episodes
way back years ago- if anyone out there has tapes, let me know.
But to be more precise, the book "The Best of Science Fiction TV", by John
Javna, states that eight episodes were produced in 1978.  Incidentally, 
the books rates Quark as #12 on the list of top 15.

                                               Daniel Pawtowski
                                                VTAS Commando
dpawtows@vtssi.vt.edu

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From: berninge@cs.purdue.edu (Jim Berninger)
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Subject: Re: QL - What does leapee know
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:12:28 -0500
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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In article <1993Jan28.170441.8509@zip.eecs.umich.edu> jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin) writes:
>In article <49540021@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> shkelnik@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Leslie Shkolnik) writes:
>>I'd like to see what happens after they leap back as well...
>I believe issue #8 of the QL comic book addressed this fact-- the leapee
>didna remember a thing after he leaped back .  
>good storyline.  better art.  totally unlike th rest of the series.  pick
>it up.

QL #8 Spoiler warning:

QL #8 dealt very strongly with the leapee's experiences in the
future, and that aspect was very good.  However, one problem with QL
#8 is that Al was able to watch the leapee in the past after Sam
leapt out.  Although I enjoyed watching the leapee's reaction to
being (more-or-less) back where he belonged, should Al have been
able to stay there?  For that matter, couldn't Al arrange to pay
another visit to the little girl from "Another Mother"?  She and Al
rather liked each other, and she asked if she would ever see him
again...

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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Animated Ep?
Summary: Next year.
Date: 23 Jan 93 02:09:33 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

In article <1jhpae$73k@agate.berkeley.edu> pld@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul DuBois) writes:
>I notice that Sally's most recent QL update post didn't mention the rumored
>animated episode of QL.  Did I miss it?  :P

Due to budget restrictions, it won't be included in this season's list.

Don Bellasario was a guest lecturer at the Learning Tree University's
presentation on "Inside 'Quantum Leap'" on Wednesday, January 20.
During the question and answer session, Don said that they fully
intend to do the animated episode next season.
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From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch  )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Time Trax Observations
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:59:06 EST
Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL

nml@csa.bu.edu (Newton Loui) writes:
> 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.

Trancers

(If your mail bounces use the address below.)
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From: rjg@doe.carleton.ca (Richard Griffith)
Subject: Re: Space Rangers
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:19:43 GMT

In <C1Kuwu.M9G@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper) writes:
>No one seems to have any idea why the sequence is so screwed up. It would
>have been a better premeire episode because this was the best so far. It
>still isn;t great but I would have been more encouraged from the start if
>we hadn't started with that stupid 'drug dealers in space' opening.
Amen

>Even so, this episode suffered from the same problems. They keep trying to
>do so much! Why the stupid interlude with the Banshees? It was pointless!

Indeed. However if this had been the pilot it would have been a good 
introduction to their appearance in a later/earlier episode.

This interlude could have been cut.
Note to the person who commented on the banshees hand sticking into
the ship. Banshees are extradimesional creatures that make traveling
faster than light the hazard that it is.

I hope the original script had more in it back on the ship while the
others were on the planet. What happened to the two back on the ship
I have to hope there was some reason for the guy on the ship to come
down and leave the woman alone up there. If she is still loyal she
could refuse to switch on the elevator to let them back up.

The space ship obviously has artificial gravity. I like the one person
elevator capsules (paragliders??) that were used to get down to the planet.
If you can make gravity these seem like a good way to get up and down.
Much more acceptable than transporters.
From: mjm3170@zeus.tamu.edu (MATTSON, MATTHEW JUL)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Dr. Ruth continuity error?????
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:32 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I never had a problem with the ability to "see" Dr. Ruth.
I think that Al saw Sam but WE were given the ability to see Dr. Ruth (after 
all she is starring on the episode!)  

Why do people find it to be such a problem?

MJM
From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL: Postponed til...?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:09 CST
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Maybe I missed any mention of this (though I did look back through all the
articles still available on our news server), but is there a reason why the
"vampire" episode did not air tonight (or, more importantly, why QL did not
air at all tonight, nor will it be on next Tuesday night either)?

I looked through both this week's and next week's TV Guide for *any* listing
of QL on any night (any channel, even :) but found nothing (other than the
USA syndicated reruns, of course :).

I hate it when the network screws with my weekly Leap -- that's what made
me lose track of it in the first place until they leapt it to its current
spot on Tuesdays, and now that I've got it back it makes me mad when they
don't show it (and don't have a 15- or 30-second "QL will return in two
weeks" notice).

Anybody know for certain *when* we'll get it back? I had specifically reminded
some coworkers about the vampire episode and would like to have something to
tell them so they don't leap down my throat for giving 'em bad information.

Thanks, all! 

 - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M - 
 - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU - DBM@AOL.COM -- My views, my life, my right... -
From: nob2007@DSACG2.DSAC.DLA.MIL (Christina Michelle Ooten)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V18 #56
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:00:07 GMT

> 
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> communications, weren't they? Unless their communications can filter out
> certain frequencies, or something, those remaining on board should have
> fallen easy prey to the Banshees.
> 
> On a slightly different tangent: their ship doesn't have a name, does it?
> 
> Robin C. Kwong
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 

    This is just a little test of mine !!
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From: jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J)
Subject: Re: QL: Al & Tina (& Gooshie)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:30:00 GMT

>>Possible spoilers of some sort in this.
>
>Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the affair were still on...At
>any rate, however, Tina just doesn't impress me. Now, I'm wondering
>how the final scene between Dr. Ruth and Al was intended. Did the
>writer seriously think that Al admitting that he loved Tina would
>be a good thing? (If the question sounds pretentious, it's not
>meant to be.) Considering that all we've been shown of Tina is that
>she's something of a vacuous, giggling bimbo-type, were we really
>supposed to react happily to this new development? 

My impression was that she was a bimbo-type on the surface, but that there was
something more beneath.  I.e., that she's not totally a stereotype.  It just
seems they haven't been able to spend much time on developing her.
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