ArtieShaw

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Team America: Space Police. As a Canadian, I really fuckin hate that.

As an American (in the US sense), so do I. It’s why I didn’t like SG1 but could sort of tolerate Atlantis.

Oddly, the biggest SG1 fan I knew was Canadian. He was a bit of an odd duck, though. He’s the sort of guy who knew off the top of his head that the awkward woman on Breakfast Television was the daughter of Canada’s military chief. I would have traded citizenships with him if that were an option. He could have his paranoia and guns and I could have some healthcare.

So - I swear I tried to google this yesterday and came up empty. I have a weird question.

Was there a third Sci-fi series that aired around the same time as Babylon 5 and DS9? It may have had a plot thread that involved genetically engineered space spies? Like telepathic central intelligence officers? Or am I thinking of B5?

I was in college at the time (mid 90s) and didn’t have the free time to watch much TV. I caught an episode here or there and would occasionally talk about shows with my friend Spencer. I’m definitely not thinking about DS9 because I’ve seen that in its entirety fairly recently.

Seems to be the fashion today for the UK to bring back people we all thought we’d seen the last of. First Cameron, now Tennant. Please don’t do QEII.

Feels like 1997. I’m a little bit surprised it took 25 years for the legal parts of this to come to a head.

https://www.salon.com/1997/07/08/media_49/

Until recently, stars could not foresee that technology would enable the use of their screen work for any reason other than the intended purpose. As today’s actors become aware of this, legal experts profess, their wills could become more specific as to how they want to be cast after the final curtain has fallen. But even the most protective of estates may not be prepared for today’s body-snatching technologies.

“People are working on totally digital models of people,” says Joseph Beard, professor of law at St. John’s University and author of “Casting Call at Forest Lawn: The Digital resurrection of Deceased Entertainers” (High Technology Law Journal, 1993). “Instead of cutting them out of an existing film, you’ll be able to create a Marilyn Monroe and not rely on old films in order to put her in something new.”

My cats aren’t fooled at all by pill pockets. Not even the dumb ones.

My grandmother did the butter pill trick with her cats. She tried to teach me, but I never learned her witchy ways (in that respect, at least).

We do the two person approach with one handling the kitty and the other risking fingers

Pretty lady transforms into monster covered with greenish spaghetti hair, a bad outfit, and typewriter fingertips. If she puts those on your face you’ll be sorry unless you’re dead.

That episode really freaked me out when I was a kid.

I mean, really freaked me out. It’s in the top ten of scariest monsters from childhood.

If you displease me again,

“Bwang-ang-ang-ang!”

Tons of potential for TIT(Trekked)U.

I can’t go to San Francisco without thinking about the nuclear wessels. My husband is legitimately worried that I’ll start asking random strangers about them.

Actually - considering the amount of unsolicited (and invariably wrong) advice we got from SF locals who saw us looking at transit maps and butted in to offer some friendly assistance… I may just do that at the next visit.

“Are you looking for Fisherman’s Warf?”
“No.”
“It’s just down that way!” <points due south, towards transamerica building>
“I think we’re good! Thanks for the help!”
“Actually, we’re looking for nuclear wessels. Do you know where I can find nuclear wessels?”

<sigh> He’s right to be worried.

Aw, I remember a confused new cat “owner” who wrote to a cat advice sub about that. He was extremely stressed out because he couldn’t help himself from looking at his new cat. It was sweet. Weird and overly literal, but sweet. He seemed genuinely worried that being seen would bother the cat.

Everyone reassured him that he could look at the kitty if he wasn’t weird about it.

Worf? Worf here is being weird about it. And holding him wrong. Worf’s gonna get mauled.

I hadn’t even thought about the comparison to Guinan or Quark. The comparison makes Neelix so much worse. Guinan didn’t need a redemption arc . Quark had a good one. Neither of them were annoying.

Neelix was awful, and probably made worse because I wanted to like him from the start.

Without getting into Kes - which compounded the Neelix problem for me - I started to hate him less in the last few seasons when he went all dark sad clown. I was still viscerally annoyed, but he turned into almost a Michael Scott type character. He was horrible, but you could see the the pain that made him that way.

I really want to see both characters and actors swap shows.

“Back on Meepos, Unlcle Kalvash would reconfigure the deflector relays to reinforce phasers at random intervals, thus disrupting the enemy’s shields. That certainly keep sheep on their toes!”

“Cousin Larry, before you approach that woman I must inform you that your chances of dating her are approximately 1.78X10^48 to one.”

I would watch the hell out of that. So many wacky mixups!

Swing and lounge had a bit of a resurgence in the '90s. It was probably a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ fad, but it was a whole thing for a certain demographic.

I say this as a genuinely uncool person who had listened to very old music from a very young age. (see username) It was unnerving to have other young people suddenly expressing positive interest in my record collection, but it was also nice that companies were reissuing some better content on CD.

That being said, Vic Fontaine was cartoonish and I hated those episodes. If it was meant to be a homage, it was a poor one.