tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post1712479179903357996..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: MZAT: What to leave in, what to leave outchris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-22145342583572807562013-06-30T18:34:02.144-04:002013-06-30T18:34:02.144-04:00OK, we want to keep our cryocorpses as safe as pos...OK, we want to keep our cryocorpses as safe as possible. So we'll put them on a satellite where they can suffer radiation damage rather than, say, down a hole in the Antarctic...<br /><br />"Q did it" -- many of the things that went wrong with TNG, especially in the early days, are summed up right there.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-23971702514880515862013-06-28T22:40:47.336-04:002013-06-28T22:40:47.336-04:00I honestly don't know if I've even seen th...I honestly don't know if I've even seen the episode, I think I learned about it because it predicted the cold war would still be ongoing and that doesn't quite work out given when they were put in cryo. On a satellite. That made it to the boarder of the Romulan neutral zone. Just by drifting.<br /><br />Apparently an early version of the script addressed that this would be impossible even if given thousands of years (and it had had less than 300) and indeed the episode itself was intended to set up the Borg (who were to try to incite a second war between Romulans and the Federation and presumably took the satellite to study humans) but that got cut, and it didn't introduce the Borg because writer's strike so instead Q did it.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-47065159227002009092013-06-28T21:28:14.099-04:002013-06-28T21:28:14.099-04:00A 1988 episode of The Next Generation had the Ente...<em>A 1988 episode of The Next Generation had the Enterprise pick up some people cryogenically frozen prior to the start of the 21st century.</em><br /><br />Well, we <em>are</em> capable of putting people in cryo-stasis, we just don't know how to get them back <em>out</em>.<br /><br />(I think I've seen that episode, but not for a while and not the beginning of it, so it might be more futuristic than that.)Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034585577015417306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-89053787353749549632013-06-28T18:09:42.776-04:002013-06-28T18:09:42.776-04:00Yeah, that is a good point, we weren't really ...Yeah, that is a good point, we weren't really holding out for jetpacks and such, but it still seemed a long way off (in 1990 2000 was two lifetimes away, in 1995 it was half a lifetime away) and we still had all the fiction from before. (Original series Star Trek: the year 2000 is post Eugenics Wars. A 1988 episode of The Next Generation had the Enterprise pick up some people cryogenically frozen prior to the start of the 21st century. 2001: A Space Odyssey was set in ... um ... *scratches head*) But even so, it was more "<i>the future</i>" than "THE FUTURE!".<br /><br />All of that said, it's a great year to round to.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-73996323072297061372013-06-28T14:00:37.411-04:002013-06-28T14:00:37.411-04:00Sufficiently zombie-ish? I don't know, but I l...Sufficiently zombie-ish? I don't know, but I like it.<br /><br /><em>"When I was growing up --which we won't say when it was because I'm told it's rude to talk about people's ages and if I say mine you might feel pressured to say yours, gun pointed to the back of your head might make that pressure feel higher, and we don't want that-- the year two thousand was the future.<br /><br />"Not just the future, or the Future with a capital F, but the entirely capitalized FUTURE! with an exclamation point. Jet packs and aliens and space ships and stuff.</em><br /><br />I can't tell if this is supposed to be true or not. I don't actually know very much about the mid-90's*, and 2000 is a very round number, but they seem awfully close to each other for 2000 to still be the FUTURE!. (Do I put a period there?)<br /><br />*Unlike the group, I <em>do</em> know your age. More importantly for an adult-onset time traveller talking about their childhood, I know when you were born.Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034585577015417306noreply@blogger.com