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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
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Subject: Re: SPACE 1999. - You can't defend it
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 15:45:54 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <217@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) writes:
>What about the never-ending supply of security officers on the Enterprise
>(the ones at the tail end of the group that got grabbed zapped or whatever..
>and the other one "Smith go back and find out what happened to Jones"

The Enterprise could replace lost personnel anytime it docked  at  a  major
star base.  Moonbase Alpha had no such outside resources.

>Is it true that a ship was reported at a range of 10 'microns' in
>Battlestar pathetica ?

Probably.  The writers on that show tried to make a  lot  of  things  sound
exotically  scientific  by  tacking  the  suffix  "on" on to them.  Spiders
became "crawlons", for example.  This is somewhat reminiscent of the  _old_
Buck  Rogers  and Flash Gordon serials where everything had "o" appended to
it. ("They're using the dissolvo ray!").

The next Hollywood sci-fi disaster will  probably  start  adding  "ono"  to
everything (Creativity?  What're you?  Some kind of communist? (-: ).  It's
enough to give you nightmares.
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