November 10
 

Remember that mini-event IJD was working on for the TOS Season 2 DVD release? It's here -- and it's not leaving till it's kicked your butt down to the corner store. To celebrate the arrival of S2, IJD has fived two episodes from that season, both memorable. The politics-heavy "The Omega Glory" taught viewers an important lesson: not everything Gene Roddenberry writes is glorious. (This rule is now called the Omega Directive.) And who can forget the season finale, "Assignment: Earth"? It launched a highly successful series, after all. Read and enjoy IJD's fivers, and then go buy the DVDs!

Took me a minute to get that...I'm acutally mildy surprised I managed it.

Go Zoidberg!

ROFL!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Dude, you were in rare form when you wrote these *gasping for breath*

Getting Brannigan/Kif vibes here.

It's nice to see how your characterisation of Kirk is consistent from fiver to fiver.

*znerk*

*snicker*

Nothing beats a running gag.

I rest my case.

It was 196-something. The Enterprise censors got retrofitted during the slingshot (just like the Planet Express ship's chronologimeter got turned into a 1947 pinup calendar).

Excellent work, Acronym Boy. The In Search Of audition piece at the end was amusing, but too long to quote.

Hopefully reading these will be the kick in the butt I need to write some more fivers of my own.

I don't have the DVD's (yet!) but thw fivers are great!

Excellent work IJDGAF! :D

Hilarious fivers, IJD! I'm just surprised you didn't put in some 60s song references. I was really expecting to hear Kirk say he had a hard day's night or to hear Spock refered to as Secret Agent(Asian) Man.

This and the card-flipping gag were my favorites. I love IJD's Kirk--he's so venal and clueless. Poor long-suffering Spock.

Uhura using up the hailing minutes--best Uhura gag in a long time too. Excellent fivers dude!

I havent read the fivers yet, but I got as far as the front page...

:lol: :mrgreen:

I don't even like TOS (*ducks*), yet still those were excellent!
Especially:
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Hehehehehehe. Most excellent.

You know, I almost got the Season One box-set the other day, but I was a tenner short, so went I bought some books instead. Mmmmm, books....

Re: November 10
 

You know, The Omega Glory may not have been among the very best episodes of Star Trek, but I really don't think that it's as awful as some folks make it out to be. Morgan Woodward's bug-eyed performance ("We emptied four of our phasers, and they still came!") is worth the price of admission alone.

IJD, greatgreatgreat! :D These are some of the best fivers I've seen from you -- on a par with that for The Doomsday Machine.

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Edit: Okay, so I still don't know how to quote html properly. Sue me. :P

Thanks for all the high praise guys (and gals)!

Sa'ar -- that has to be the most impressive feat of quoting I have ever seen.

d'oh!

:) Yeah especially on TOS, it's easy to marginalize the side characters. Something I definitely need to work on.

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"The Omega Glory" rocks. It's one of the best original series episodes around...

...until about 35 minutes in. Then it's one of the worst original series episodes around. Okay, I can vaguely accept that planets can develop somewhat similarly to Earth in a few respects. But an identical flag? The Declaration of Independence word for word? I'm sorry, but that's just a little stupid.

And the message at the end wasn't even terribly Roddenberry-esque (surprisng, since he wrote it). I mean the guy could be considered a utopian socialist, and he writes this almost-absurdly patriotic episode? I dunno, something seems off to me there.

The episode has great acting, an intriguing story -- everything I love about the show. Except for some reason they just totally ruin it in the last 15 minutes.

Anyway, thanks for all the high praise everyone. I'm glad everyone enjoyed 'em.

Read the 1st one now :mrgreen:

I'm thinking thats a joke, but it's gone right over my head :wink:

:lol:

:lol: :lol:

Yes...yes it is :wink:

Gret fiver IJD :mrgreen:

I only just got that joke - Exeter= Exodus Genester= Genesis Leviticker=Leviticus. V. clever. ha-ha. :D

Heheheh.

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Great work all around, ijdgaf!

I think that Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planet Development (quoted in "Miri," I think) should actually be called Roddenberry's Law of Inexpensive Script Development. "Bread and Circuses" went one step further by giving us the Roman Empire combined with a 1960s-level culture (complete with television studios and police officers in motorcycle helmets). A very convenient way to use the historical and contemporary props and costumes available at little cost from the Desilu and Paramount storage rooms.

Well today's update was random. How do you come up with a link like that?

'Fighting evil by...' Damn that theme song!

I'm thinking of doing more like that. On days when you don't get new content, you might as well get a humourous ramble.

I found the link through a webcomic, Bigger Than Cheeses.

Secret powers are so new to her... she is the one named Sailor Moon....

Yay, you used my link! You failed to point out that I completed the game an hour (or 4 :wink: ) after I mailed it to you :mrgreen:

And, in case I haven't mentioned it in enough threads, it's my birthday today :mrgreen:

"She is the one who goes off the deep end..."

I once had a tagline in my Fidonet Tagfile that went something like this:

"WAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" - Meatballhead

There's a really easy way to play the game, if you're evil enough... :twisted:

Just turn your mouse upside down. :P duh