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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: re: BUCK ROGERS and ST
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 08:16:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 08:16:12 1984
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> 	While watching Buck Rogers (series.new, not cartoon or series.old),
> There was a scene where Buck was in a spaceport and the paging system came
> up with this:
>
>		"Captain Christopher Pike please report to Veteran Affairs."
>
>		David L. Pope

If that's the episode that I'm thinking of, there were a *lot* more in-jokes
than that one coming from the paging system. The ones I can remember off-hand
were were references to Arrakis (DUNE), Altair-4 (FORBIDDEN PLANET), and my
favorite was:

"Will arriving passenger Dr. Adam Strange from Alpha Centauri please report to
the <somethingorother>"

(Adam Strange was the character from DC's MYSTERY IN SPACE comic. He was an
Earthman who journeyed to Rann, a planet circling Alpha Centauri, via teleporta-
tion beam.)

The scriptwriter for that episode was sf author Alan Brennert.

				  --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA)

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