Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Spoofs, to wit, Quark Message-ID: <2166@usceast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 01:42:31 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2166 Posted: Sat Feb 2 01:42:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Feb-85 04:14:48 EST References: <428@topaz.ARPA> <1156@ihuxi.UUCP> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 48 Keywords: trash, mostly Summary: Ah, yes - Quark. One of the original postings was titled something like "spoof or trash", well I'm afraid mostly trash (in more ways than one.) The basic premise here was that Quark was the commander of an interstellar garbage truck (ship), although I don't remember his ever making an actual pickup. He worked out of a chaotic space station called PERMA 1, under the supervision of Conrad Janis (of Mork & Mindy fame). The whole operation was overseen by a (disembodied?) head called The Head. Quark's crew consisted of two beautiful clones, a mostly emotionless humanoid vegatable first officer and a hermaphordite (which meant not what you would expect, but that he/she would spend half the time acting super macho and half the time acting sterotypically gay). In some of the early episodes, the science officer was a one eyed old man (he put out the other eye by falling asleep at the microscope). Additionally, there was some sort of uncontrolable alien pet on board. Sound interesting? Well, maybe. However, every episode I saw (and they seemed to be very irregularly scheduled) was horrible except for one. When I say horrible, I mean in a technical sense as well as the writing, acting and directing. The laugh track was the worse I can remember on any show (and if you remember the laugh track of a show at all, that's a bad sign). What was the one good episode? It was a one hour special Star Wars parody. Everyone else was unavaiable so The Head had to send Quark to save the federation (or whatever it was). With Quark and his crew, the head also sent an invisible, omnipresent and somewhate klutzy entity called THE SOURCE. The bad guys were headquartered in a space station that looked exactly like Darth Vader's mask. I don't know how they did it, but somehow the jokes in this one were actually funny and the acting competent. I remember it with great fondness, even though the laugh track did get out of hand once (when the 2 bettys were denying that they knew each other). I was hoping that maybe everyone involved had learned something, but when I tuned in next episode --- same old awful trash. Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted SOURCE : Quick quark, follow me. Quark : Right... Wait a minute, your're everywhere. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted (UUCP) 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 allegra!usceast!ted@seismo (ARPA, maybe) ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------