Well, I can't argue with point 1, I suppose, but I gotta say, if Deadliest Catch had Valkyries and Mylene, there would be no question as to why I can't stop watching it.

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"Yeah, we're going to lay out 150 pots, then return to Dutch Harbor and get 150 to 170 MORE pots."

I can't remember the exact quote, but I also seem to recall a time when he was grumbling over his men needing a few hours of sleep after they were up for like 48 hours.

In UF, Sig would probably have Zentraedi blood. Maybe Guld's cousin? :)

I'd like to contest point 1 actually. Providing linkage for such evidence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3SJItECuwA

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(Yeah yeah...fan edit...but a high grade fan edit at that....and yes that's actually Lynn's VA singing that song.)

How does this contest the assertion that Deadliest Catch's background music is superior to the Minmei songs from Robotech?

On second thought, don't answer that. We've beaten this horse enough.

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Or that I have.

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At this point, I think we as a culture have simply run out of "fresh" ideas. Name a plot off the top of your head and it's either been a movie, a television series, a novel, or the latest story arc of a major comic series. The next step is coming up with new and interesting ways of redoing old ideas, such as prequels, sequels, remakes, and live-actions adaptations.

After that...hell, who knows? Maybe by then they'll have cloning technology and we can clone some of the best writers to come up with some new ideas.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

There are no new ideas.

On the other hand, space aliens may have a few old ones we've never heard of before...

Ja, -n

Of course, one must remember two things:

1) That given the creation of the WDF in the mid 1990's and Earth's first contact at the turn of the 21st cetury, everything past that is up for grabs as far as having occured, or not, in the early 2000's, which would allow for today's current series and films to have never happened and instead gotten deferred to another time...

2) Given that for most people in the FI-era UF-universe, events in the 1990-2000's is like us looking back at the 1600's and Shakespeare-era England, colonization of the Americas, and Tokugawa-era Shogunate Japan, it's quite concieveable that TV shows from 'our' period would have a revival. After all, nobody's stopped putting on productions of "A Midsummer's Night Dream" just because it's over 400 years old. There's always room for new interpretations of the classics, like the fairy castmembers of "Dream" put on rollerblades...

	Philip J. Moyer Contributing Writer, Editor and Artist (and Moderator) -- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited CEO of MTS, High Poobah Of Artwork, and High Priest Of the Church Of Aerianne -- Magnetic Terrapin Studios "Yes, the UMD theater department actually did 'Dream' with rollerblades for the fairies. Worked quite well, actually."

For that matter (and I think somebody has already pointed this out somewhere else), Shakespeare's bloodier tragedies would go over like gangbusters with the Klingons. Imagine what they could do, for instance, in re-staging "Julius Caesar".

-Joe-

P.S. I _think_ I might have asked this before, but is "Avalon 17" a reference in any way to WTBS in Atlanta, the flagship station of Ted Turner's media empire, which way back in the day used to be WTCG, a UHF station on - you guessed it - Channel 17? (I lived in Atlanta from 1970-72 as a tad and Channel 17 had, in my firm opinion at that tender age, the coolest shows.)

I was wondering the same thing myself. It would be cool....

I remember when WTCG showed "Star Trek" at 6am on Saturday Mornings, before it really took off in syndication. And all those Ultraman shows and the rubber monster movies.

But I bet it is from a station somewhere in Maine that Gryphon watches.

Michael

	Michael C. Fortner RCW #2n+1 "I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." -- Mark Twain

Nope. I remember SuperStation WTBS from its early cable days - the local cable system here in Millinocket carried it from... well, we got cable in 1980, so, at least that far back. (Bee Line Cable also carried a couple of the other early "superstations", WGN in Chicago and WOR, later WWOR, in "New York", actually Secaucus, NJ - but, oddly, not WSBK-38 in Boston.)

Avalon 17 isn't a reference to any particular real-world station, though. The number is actually an in-story reference to the SDF-17. The spiritual predecessor of Avalon Broadcasting was the Golden Age WDF's Wedge City Communications Corp. (WCCC), which operated in the Wayward Son's internal city. (WCCC was actually Channel 2. Why? Because old-timey TV sets didn't have a Channel 1. You younger kids may not remember that.)

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They have a channel 1 now?

Wow, I'm so out of touch with modern television.

It's not obvious today whether they do or not. In the old days, all you had to do was look at the front of the set and see that the dial started at 2.

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Sorry, just one of those useless facts that fill my head....

Michael

	Michael C. Fortner RCW #2n+1 "I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." -- Mark Twain

Star Trek VI :)

*GROAN* Someone needs some pounding with the punhammer.