Intelligent Dinosaurs - Droyne - Near Space
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Whipsnade: I thought about your comment concerning the vast amount of time that has passed, so I have had them devolve on the new world.
But your idea of the aliens being trapped in jumpsace is very very neat, and solves that problem of have eons separating events.
The two species, insterstellar dinosaurid and Martian dinosaurid would, then be identical.
But your idea of the aliens being trapped in jumpsace is very very neat, and solves that problem of have eons separating events.
The two species, insterstellar dinosaurid and Martian dinosaurid would, then be identical.
Mithras,
I wouldn't go that far. It's a campy favorite currently, people of a certain age looking back with nostalgia towards their old Saturday morning TV favorites. A younger sister of mine identified with Holly quite strongly, even to the point of wearing braided pigtails, so the show was on our sole TV every Saturday morning despite the best attempts of the rest of us. Seeing as she was the youngest and a real creep, she usually got to watch what she wanted.
The sets and, what could kindly be called SFX, were spectacularly bad, the acting was at the "At least I'm working" level, and the production values were lousy. I'm talking Banana Splits/Danger Island lousy. The stories were equally bad with the exception of the one written by Niven and Gerrold and another I oddly remember.
In the Niven/Gerrold story...
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In the other story I can recall, the science fiction reader in me was very pleased to watch...
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The Sleestak were simply bizarre in the show, more comic relief than actual threat. They had these toy crossbows with which they could not hit anything at all. I remember our father remarking one day that it looked like stage hands were simply tossing crossbow bolts at the heros. When Star Wars came out later and people began remarking what poor shots the Imperial Stormtroopers were, we naturally assumed they matriculated at Sleestak Marksmanship and Bumbling Fool School.
Regards,
Bill
Mithras,
Not my idea. It's Hogan's with a generous dollop of Vinge.
I do not create, I steal and modify. There is a great difference between the two.
Regards,
Bill
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The Conspiracy X game includes Saurians:
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You forgot about Far Out Space Nuts, which I think is the gold standard for Sid & Marty Krofft awfulness. Or did you intentionally black that one out? I know that's how I managed to cope with my traumatic early childhood experience of accidentally coming across an airing of Lidsville.
Actually, you need to thank Walter Koenig for that story, since he's the guy who actually wrote it. Although you can be forgiven for assuming it was a Niven/Gerrold venture -- Gerrold worked as the story editor for the first season, and between Niven and him (either alone or in collaboration), they account for over a third of the episodes for the first season of the show. Throw in Koenig and D.C. Fontana, and you have half the first season right there ...
Although the show drops considerably after that -- like off a cliff. The only major writer who contributed to the later seasons, I think, was Theodore "ninety percent of everything is crud" Sturgeon.
Ya know, that's actually a pretty popular school. I'm pretty sure those Zhodani from Twilight's Peak actually matriculated there.
Although at least the Zhodani were able to move at a decent pace. I don't think I ever saw a Sleestak clocking in at any higher than three miles per hour on open ground ... and yet, the Marshalls still only managed to just barely keep ahead of them.
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