Space 1999 was unlike Star Trek in several ways, but it was more similar to Star Trek than Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and those other shows that...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 4, 2011 10:26 pm
Michael,  It is possible that the comparison between Fred Freiberger and Joseph Stalin got a bit out of hand. What I wanted to emphasize was he dictatorial...
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Michael Smith
michaels8167
May 4, 2011 10:26 pm
a few yeara back there was a program called what if we had no moon hosted by patrick stewart. it talk about how earth would be with out a moon. basically in a...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 4, 2011 10:26 pm
Well said. S99 is one of the best television drama series ever, regardless of genre.  John ... From: slinter@... <slinter@...> Subject: Re:...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 4, 2011 10:26 pm
The problem wasn't Star Trek itself, but it was Freiberger's idea of remaking Space 1999 to make it more similar to Star Trek. I think that was a bad...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 4, 2011 10:27 pm
Very good comments. There is a total change of approach when we compare the original Star Trek with Star Wars. The philosophy of Star Trek was not as deep...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 4, 2011 10:27 pm
I would include all the three seasons of the original ST in the excellent category. Indeed, some of my favourite ST episodes are in final season. I'm not...
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Alyn Roze
alyn_roze
May 4, 2011 10:27 pm
Trying to compare the two sci fi shows is very difficult. First of all they take place in two different time periods, centuries apart. In "Space" man was just...
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Michael Smith
michaels8167
May 4, 2011 10:28 pm
there was actually a show shown in 1969 called ufo and was produced by the andersons called ufo. it concerned earth being attacked by ufos and was set about...
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atd1999
May 4, 2011 10:31 pm
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slinter@...
senmut98801
May 5, 2011 2:14 am
One of the things that makes Space so good, even Y2 in some ways, is the apolitical nature of many of the stories. Unlike Trek, which can be ...
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slinter@...
senmut98801
May 5, 2011 2:30 am
The problem wasn't Star Trek itself, but it was Freiberger's idea of remaking Space 1999 to make it more similar to Star Trek. I think that was a bad...
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slinter@...
senmut98801
May 5, 2011 2:31 am
However, I agree completely in what you are saying about how the spirit of the times have changed, and how television today is much more like brainless soap...
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slinter@...
senmut98801
May 5, 2011 2:31 am
Arena is one of Treks 10 best. How can you call it junk? On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:18:28 -0700 (PDT) "John K. Balor" <balor1999@...> writes: Very good...
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slinter@...
senmut98801
May 5, 2011 2:31 am
At best, one could say that FF acted like a heavy-handed father, who had these "children"; dumped on him out of nowhere. He was not well-suited to dropping in,...
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slinter@...
senmut98801
May 5, 2011 2:31 am
"THe pollution of the 21st Century" is what Helena was told. On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:26:46 -0000 "Michael Smith" <michaels8167@...> writes: a few yeara...
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John
actingman_jc
May 5, 2011 10:53 am
Now here is the problem. You say he tried to make it more similar to Trek, but you don't say how. I said "aside from having a resident alien" in my original...
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John
actingman_jc
May 5, 2011 11:00 am
Or maybe he was a PRODUCER!!!! The boss...hello? There are different management styles, and we have noted what he had dumped on him as far as time restraints,...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:35 pm
Good points, Slinter. I like your metaphors much better. In fact, I think Mentor from "The Metamorph" could be a good model of what Freiberger was like. ...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:35 pm
I see what you are meaning. In several ways one could say that the late sixties and the early seventies were "centuries apart". In the late sixties there...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:36 pm
Showbusiness is business allright. Freiberger thought the original S99 concept was idiotic. He referred to it as "tea in the woodlands". He wanted it...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:36 pm
Perhaps I confused the titles of the episodes... The episode I was thinking of was an incredibly stupid episode where Kirk fights with a man dressed up in a...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:36 pm
I remember UFO. Some people prefer UFO to S99. Personally, S99 has always been my favourite among sci-fi series. In fact, I see it as a general benchmark...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:37 pm
I grew up in the early seventies, but to me TWTE is an almost prophetic episode in the sense that it perhaps gives a more accurate description of the...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 2:37 pm
Well, I found the idea of a resident alien appalling. Adding a resident alien to the Space 1999 cast was perhaps the single most significant conceptual...
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Michael Smith
michaels8167
May 5, 2011 2:37 pm
i accept your assesement of my comparing fred to stalin. in all honesty i dont know of anyone who can be compared to ff but you must realize that star trek was...
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Jonathan Reiter
atomtetsuwan...
May 5, 2011 2:46 pm
No, You got the title of the ST:TOS episode right... And yes, it was a pretty bad episode: but not as bad as Spock’s Brain, and not as EMBARRASSINGLY...
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Michael Smith
michaels8167
May 5, 2011 5:50 pm
it is sad to not that only wargames ever used the hawk. it certainly was one of the better remebered ships outside of the eagles. i noticed at an airshow that...
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Michael Smith
michaels8167
May 5, 2011 5:50 pm
the episode you refer to is called arena when they finished shooting the episode they forgot to ask permission from the author. they had a choice scrap it [...
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John K. Balor
balor1999
May 5, 2011 5:50 pm
Excellent comments!!! The Freiberger remake of S99 makes me want to throw up.  John ... From: Michael Smith <michaels8167@...> Subject: [OnlineAlpha]...
