The greatest science-fiction concept.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:42 pm

Seeing as this is a forum based around a science fiction genre, and given the recent spate of sci-f related topics, would anybody like some toast? How about a muffin?

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:01 am

Shouldn't robots come under technology?

And aren't technology and robots science fact?

im confused. and lazy. mainly lazy.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:56 am

And clones come under genetics, surely?

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:18 am

yahuh!

we demand answers, rebis!!

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:39 am

And technology pretty much covers everything else up there. Lightsabers would be under technology. MORPHING comes under technology.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:53 am

But before they were fact, they (or concepts relating to) were fiction!

Weren't they?...

I'll have some toast. Whole wheat with cinnamon spread.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:47 am

Karl Lynch wrote:Shouldn't robots come under technology?

And aren't technology and robots science fact?

Well, unless they're naturally occuring robots, a la Cybertronians. In which event the robots could be classed as biological in a sense...

jboyler · Post by **jboyler** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:02 am

The Spice Must Flow.

(I put down 'Space' because it's sort of genetics and aliens, too...)

-J

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:08 am

Technolagy covers it all.

Space travel,
Time travel
robots
etc...

With these, you can meet or travel to

ALien worlds,
back in time
fight or make friends with robots.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:37 am

time travel, because it can cause the most headaches! ;-)

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:38 am

but u need a time machine for that, which is technolagy.

of course u could be a 'Q' like being ...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:41 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:but u need a time machine for that, which is technolagy.

of course u could be a 'Q' like being ...

...who is an alien...this just goes round in circles, doesn't it?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:44 am

so are time travelling aliens more important then technolagy?

Saying that, the greatest sc-fi ever, star wars, (argue that if u will) works for so many ppl, unlike star trek, because it doesnt ever talk of its own technolagy...

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:04 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:but u need a time machine for that, which is technolagy.

of course u could be a 'Q' like being ...

Nicholas Lyndhurst didn't have a time machine in Goodnight, Sweetheart. He just walked down a street, dagnabit!

Post by **Best First** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:07 pm

but, tellingly, that was shat.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:14 pm

Legion wrote:time travel, because it can cause the most headaches! ;-)

Can it ever.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:14 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:Saying that, the greatest sc-fi ever, star wars, (argue that if u will)...

Certainly will.

Star Wars != Sci-fi.
Star Wars = Space fantasy.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:17 pm

Do you have anything without wheat flour? Maybe some hash browns?

I put down "aliens" because Asimov's The Gods Themselves was the book that most impressed me with a sci-fi concept: those freaking cool aliens.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:18 pm

Best First wrote:but, tellingly, that was shat.

Well, yes, but if we use that as a basis for discounting arguments then we'd have to ignore all the Star Trek parts of the thread.

... actually, I can live with that...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:05 pm

Brendocon wrote:...we'd have to ignore all the Star Trek parts of the thread.

... actually, I can live with that...

Bah. DS9 owns you and you know it.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:14 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:Bah. DS9 owns you and you know it.

DS9 owns me? I BELONG TO NOBODY!!!!!!!!

Ahem. Random Galvatron moments aside, Star Trek is (as Tim Bisley said on the subject of Babylon 5) a big pile of ****. Or was it *****? Eh.

So, for that matter, is Babylon 5.

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:25 pm

Brendocon wrote:
Metal Vendetta wrote:Bah. DS9 owns you and you know it.
DS9 owns me? I BELONG TO NOBODY!!!!!!!!

Ahem. Random Galvatron moments aside, Star Trek is (as Tim Bisley said on the subject of Babylon 5) a big pile of ****. Or was it *****? Eh.

So, for that matter, is Babylon 5.

For no worse reasons than Star Wars, far as I can see. Erratic acting, erratic effects, erratic dialogue.

I've a lot of time for tng. First Contact was also excellent imo

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:33 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:For no worse reasons than Star Wars, far as I can see. Erratic acting, erratic effects, erratic dialogue.

I hate Star Wars, too.

Though, in its defence, I didn't spend five years at school being subjected to the endless prattle of two pricks who thought I actually gave a toss about Star Wars, no matter how many times I told them I didn't. Which is what happened with Trek, and is probably the root of my contempt for the series.

That and the fact that there are people who speak Klingon fluently but would look at you blankly if you asked "ca va?" (No, I can't be arsed to find the c with the little flicky thing beneath)

Buffy fans are scary at times, yes. But at least they don't use their own ficticious language in a transparant attempt to make themselves feel special.

[/end ramble]

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:34 pm

Karl, SW rules. end off.

SOrry but you heathens have missed somthing.

BABYLON 5

that rocks harder then axel rose tied to a rocking chair on a wobbly floor made of jelly

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:35 pm

Sounds like you hate fanatics rather than any particular franchise?

I've nothing against it, I've got pretty low with reality at times so if people want to feel special by disappearing into a fantasy world I wish them luck

If it makes you happy run with it n_n

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:40 pm

im only joking.... no floors are made of jelly, that would be stupid.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:45 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:Sounds like you hate fanatics rather than any particular franchise?

I have enormous contempt for the entire Trek brand as a whole. Primarily as a result of the fans, with secondary reasons being that (despite multiple attempts) I've never managed to make it through an entire episode of any series.

Just an opening sequence is enough to send me scrambling for something - anything - else to watch. It doesn't help that there seemed to be about a dozen different versions of it on at the same time for a while... plus the apparantly endless stream of films... it's one of those things that just wouldn't go away and leave me in peace. A bit like reality TV is nowadays... just as one finishes another two spring up... at least fire worked on the Hydra...

Yeah, it's borderline phobic and probably deeply irrational, but I just can't abide the thing.

I have mellowed to it a bit over the past few years... Trekkie-baiting is one of my more enjoyable netsports... but gads, if I had my way I'd nail 90% of them to a tree by their unused genitalia.

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:58 pm

Brendocon wrote:
Karl Lynch wrote:Sounds like you hate fanatics rather than any particular franchise?
I have enormous contempt for the entire Trek brand as a whole. Primarily as a result of the fans, with secondary reasons being that (despite multiple attempts) I've never managed to make it through an entire episode of any series.

Just an opening sequence is enough to send me scrambling for something - anything - else to watch. It doesn't help that there seemed to be about a dozen different versions of it on at the same time for a while... plus the apparantly endless stream of films... it's one of those things that just wouldn't go away and leave me in peace. A bit like reality TV is nowadays... just as one finishes another two spring up... at least fire worked on the Hydra...

Yeah, it's borderline phobic and probably deeply irrational, but I just can't abide the thing.

I have mellowed to it a bit over the past few years... Trekkie-baiting is one of my more enjoyable netsports... but gads, if I had my way I'd nail 90% of them to a tree by their unused genitalia.

Meanwhile, over at some Trek board...

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I have enormous contempt for the entire Transformers brand as a whole.  Primarily as a result of the fans, with secondary reasons being that (despite multiple attempts) I've never managed to make it through an entire episode of any series.

Just an opening sequence is enough to send me scrambling for something - anything - else to watch.  It doesn't help that there seemed to be about a dozen different versions of it...

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:58 pm

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:01 pm

*watches the DS9 videos he got from the charity shop last week*

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