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From: ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman)
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Subject: Re: Enterprise vs. (I don't know if anyone has heard of this...)
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 17:41:15 EDT
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>    I don't know if anyone has ever seen this show, but a few years ago there
> used to be a cartoon called 'Star Blazers' shown in my area.  Basically
> what happened was that some people dug up an old WWII battleship (the
> Yamato...the series was made in Japan) and renamed it The Argo and fitted
> it for space flight (right!) to protect earth from the Comet Empire, the
> Gamalon Empire, etc.  If anyone out there has seen this, would you care
> to entertain any ideas about the Enterprise vs. The Argo (or even the
> Enterprise vs. the Comet Empire and/or the Gamalon Empire... or even
> all three!)?  I'd like to see some reactions/suggestions to this...
>      Adrian Zannin

Yes, Adrian, I remember "Star Blazers," mostly because I live in the same
area (Buffalo).  This was animated by the same folks who bring us "The
Littles" on Saturday morning kidvid and the video disc games "Cliff Hanger"
and "Cobra" (or "Cobra something").  All of these are bad.  Also they make/
made "Voltron:  Defender of the Universe" (how can anything defend the
entire universe?  isn't that too big of a job [except for God, if you're
the religious type (8-)]).  All of these items are EXCRUCIATINGLY BAD!
  As for other ships versus the Argo, frankly that thing is so wimpy that
a few well-flown Vipers could propably deep-six the thing:  as you said,
it's a recommissioned 20th century battleship (i.e., for water).  If you
recall, it's fighter ships were almost direct copies of fighter planes
(e.g., F-15 or some such thing).  And almost every time they went into
battle they took serious damage.
  Actually, by now I suppose you are wondering why I watched it.  Well,
I'll tell you:
    a)  there was nothing else but soaps on at the time (and I hate soaps),
    b)  it came on right after I got home from school (this would have been
         around 8th-10th grade), before I had started anything else,
    c)  it actually grows on you (like a fungus?).
  
                            Henry J. Neeman (ughenry@buffalo)

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