[Cynnabar] FW: Pennsic XLVI Rules

[Greg Less]

Star Wars defined a generation. Everything else is a pale imitator.

Also, you clear don't know your current pelican very well...

-Gregoire.


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Matt Lagemann <malagemann at gmail.com>wrote:

> I will just assume you were sniffing chemicals in the lab, because I know
> you don't really mean that.  I mean, a DS9 rip off?  Everyone knows that
> JMS pitched B5 to Paramont in the late 80s, before DS9 was even conceived.
>  And, yes they both delved into the idea of religion, intergalactic wars,
> and what it truly means to be human, they did it in different ways.  Also
> B5 embraced CGI before Star Trek.
>
> And lame?!?!  LAME!!!!!  Star Trek helped define a generation.  Where
> would we be without the first interracial kiss on television?  Or Live Long
> and Prosper?  Or the friggin Borg?!?!  And Babylon 5!  It helped set the
> bar for future shows including the BSG remake.  It also was one of the
> first shows to use the internet as a vehicle to promote the show among
> would be fans.
>
> And besides, everyone knows that there can't be a Battleship named Babylon
> 5, because the US Navy currently has NO FRAKKING BATTLESHIPS THAT ARE IN
> ACTIVE SERVICE!!! THEY WOULD HAVE TO BRING THE USS MISSOURI OUT OF
> MOTHBALLS IN ORDER TO HAVE AN ACTUAL BATTLESHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  SO
> HOW CAN THEY HAVE A MOVIE ABOUT THE MODERN US NAVY FIGHTING ALIENS (yeah
> because we ALL remember the aliens that were in the board game!) CALLED
> BATTLESHIP WHEN WE DON'T CURRENTLY USE ANY?!?
>
>
> AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>
> Ermenrich
> (whose currently Pelican would never torment him like this)
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Charles J. Cohen <charles at eecs.umich.edu
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Correct, B5 is a rip off of Deep Space 5. Exactly the same. - Midair
>>
>> Greg Less <greg.less at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >I thought Babylon 5 was a Star Trek spinoff. I never watched it because
>> >Star Trek always seemed kind of lame...
>> >
>> >-Gregoire.
>> >
>> >On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Matt Lagemann <malagemann at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Matt Lagemann <malagemann at gmail.com> writes:
>> >>>
>> >>> >(the color blind herald... and Babylon 5 fan)
>> >>>
>> >>> What is Babylon 5?  Is that the name of the ship in the Battleship
>> >>> movie?
>> >>>
>> >>> - Midair
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Oh, I see what you are trying to do there... you are trying to goad me
>> >> into ranting about the atrocity that is the Battleship movie.  But it
>> isn't
>> >> going to work.  I have more self control than that.... unlike the
>> people
>> >> behind the movie Battleship!  I mean come on!  What were they
>> thinking?!?
>> >>  Did they just walk down the board game aisle and pick a game at
>> random to
>> >> make a movie about?  What is next?  A medical drama called Operation?
>>  Or
>> >> how about a show about a failing thesaurus writer who takes up
>> horticulture
>> >> entitled Apples to Apples?!?
>>
>
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