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Old 05-27-2004, 11:12 PM
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Not only did the [iost_uid0]Enterprise[/iost_uid0] finale kick butt, it had the most insane cliffhanger ending I've ever seen. B&B may be nuts, but they sure came up with an ending that [iost_uid0]nobody[/iost_uid0] could see coming. You can share your reactions in the "Zero Hour" thread.


I have some RL to sort out, so Enterprise Week will continue tomorrow. Meanwhile... as some of you will have heard by now, Richard Biggs, who played Dr. Stephen Franklin for five seasons on [iost_uid0]Babylon 5[/iost_uid0], has died. His death came without warning at the tragically young age of 44. As our tribute to him, Sa'ar Chasm has written a fiver of the Franklin-heavy episode "Believers."[/colorost_uid0]
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Old 05-28-2004, 01:09 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Ivanova: Launch Starfury 1... Starfury 2.
Wingman: Only two fighters?
Ivanova: Two fighters is what EarthForce recommends for escorting lumbering helpless civilian ships through territory swarming with pirates.
Wingman: Has EarthForce been taking strategic lessons from Starfleet?

M'Ola: How are you feeling?
Shon: (wheeze) Well, I'm breathing funny (wheeze), and the light hurts my eyes.
M'Ola: Perhaps if we got you something to block the light, a sort of dark helmet...
Shon: Mum, I think you're being too literal.
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It was a very funny fiver. Still, such a shame about Richard Biggs... he was a fine actor, way too young to go...

The last scene is very nice.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Good job, Sa'ar.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid5]My favorite bits:

[quoteost_uid5]Franklin: No, really, it's perfectly safe as long as I don't touch the sides...
M'Ola: He will be forever considered apostate if you make his nose light up!

...
Franklin: It's just a harmless little exercise in psychological self-delusion.
Hernandez: And how is your self-delusion any better than their self-delusion?
Franklin: Easy. I know my self-delusion is rubbish.

...
Franklin: And I can't believe that you can't believe that I couldn't go against what I believed.[/quoteost_uid5]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Ivanova: Commander, incoming distress call from the liner Asimov.
Sinclair: What's their status?
Ivanova: Contending in vain.[/quoteost_uid0]

*chortle*

Yay! Someone else who knows this book!

[quoteost_uid0]Franklin: Care to watch some TV while you're in therapy?
Shon: Sure. With any luck, I can catch the Justice League season finale.
M'Ola: No, I forbid it. Your TV is awash in inappropriate cultural metaphors. Shon may see Janet Jackson's naked breast and be scarred for life.
Franklin: 300 years in the future and some people still won't let that go.[/quoteost_uid0]

GAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Plus, Justice League. Good times, all round.

[quoteost_uid0]Franklin: I would have been here quicker, but as soon as I started running, "Chariots of Fire" started playing and I had to run in slow motion. [/quoteost_uid0]

Heheheheheheheheheheh.

[quoteost_uid0](The station spins at Solemn Speed) [/quoteost_uid0]

*sniff* :cry:

Good work, Sa'ar! [/colorost_uid0]
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Old 05-29-2004, 05:18 PM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]*chortle*

Yay! Someone else who knows this book![/quoteost_uid0]

I should hope so...you're the one who pointed it out to me.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]What [iost_uid0]is[/iost_uid0] that from? It seems familiar to me, but I can't place it.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][iost_uid0]The Gods Themselves[/iost_uid0], which is probably almost Asimov's best novel in my eye. It has three sections: "against stupidity...", "...the gods themselves...", and "...contended in vain?"

That's probably a quote in and of itself, too, but I couldn't tell you of what.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]It's also a book that takes place in three parallel universes.

The anecdote about its genesis is here.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]I knew I'd read it, and not so long ago either - it's one of the three Asimov books I picked up not so long ago from the local second-hand book shop (the other two being [iost_uid0]The Currents of Space[/iost_uid0] and [iost_uid0]The Martian Way[/iost_uid0]).[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]I laughed all the way to the last scene. Then... ::tear::

Nice one, Sa'ar.

[quoteost_uid0]Kosh: (trainwhistle toiletflush awoooga) If you don't mind putting up with my naked gibberish. Stoat.[/quoteost_uid0]

::sigh:: You just couldn't leave the rodents out of it, could you?[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]I laughed all the way to the last scene. Then... ::tear::[/quoteost_uid0]

The last scene was one of the first written. It seemed...appropriate. It pretty much wrote itself.

[quoteost_uid0]Nice one, Sa'ar.
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Thankee, darlin' (and thanks to everyone else as well).

[quoteost_uid0]::sigh:: You just couldn't leave the rodents out of it, could you?[/quoteost_uid0]

1) Stoats are mustelids, not rodents.
2) It was an inter-fiver reference to Zeke's "Ferrets roam" in Midnight on the Firing Line.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Nan"][quoteost_uid0]Ivanova: Commander, incoming distress call from the liner Asimov.
Sinclair: What's their status?
Ivanova: Contending in vain.[/quoteost_uid0]

*chortle*

Yay! Someone else who knows this book![/quoteost_uid0]
I seem to recall our having an exchange about this book some time back. It's one of my all-time favorites, and nice to see an allusion here.
[quoteost_uid0]Franklin: Shhh! This is very delicate work. Pass me the pruning shears. [/quoteost_uid0] *snerf*
[quoteost_uid0]Franklin: It doesn't seem fair. He was so young, and now he's gone.
Sinclair: He may be gone, but he won't be forgotten. Are you going to be all right?
Franklin: Yeah, I think so. Good night, Commander.
Sinclair: Good bye, Richard.
(The station spins at Solemn Speed) [/quoteost_uid0]And that was a very nice touch. Good one, [bost_uid0]Sa'ar[/bost_uid0].


Edit: Liked the blurb for this, too.

Stoat, heh. [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]It was an amusing Fiver, but I think Saar Chasm seemed to miss the point of the episode. He treated it as if it was Star Trek...it wasn't; it was Babylon 5. And B5 has [iost_uid0]quite a different[/iost_uid0] philosophy to it than Trek does. In other words, just because Franklin was the [iost_uid0]Human[/iost_uid0] doesn't mean that he was [iost_uid0]right[/iost_uid0].

I don't mean to spoil the humorous mood of this thread. But I did feel like there needed to be something serious said here. I think I've been fairly reserved, actually...[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]It's a fiver. It resembles the episode only as much as is necessary. Like, major plot points. [iost_uid0]Maybe.[/iost_uid0][/colorost_uid0]
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