First Airing of Star Trek:
<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">September 8, 1966</span><div><div>First showing of Star Wars: May 25, 1977</div><div><br></div><div>You can't imitate what came first.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ermenrich</div><div>(who is a fan of both series, but just wants to point out what came first)</div><div>(also realizes that both Star Trek and Star Wars have great moments and really really really bad ones. Some lasting seven seasons and involving being lost in space the entire time.)</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Greg Less <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.less@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.less@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Star Wars defined a generation. Everything else is a pale imitator.<div><br></div><div>Also, you clear don't know your current pelican very well...</div><div><br></div><div>-Gregoire.<br><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Matt Lagemann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malagemann@gmail.com" target="_blank">malagemann@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<div>
<br>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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?!?<br>
<br>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ermenrich</div><div>(whose currently Pelican would never torment him like this)<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Charles J. Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charles@eecs.umich.edu" target="_blank">charles@eecs.umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Correct, B5 is a rip off of Deep Space 5. Exactly the same. - Midair<br>
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Greg Less <<a href="mailto:greg.less@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.less@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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>I thought Babylon 5 was a Star Trek spinoff. I never watched it because<br>
>Star Trek always seemed kind of lame...<br>
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>-Gregoire.<br>
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>On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Matt Lagemann <<a href="mailto:malagemann@gmail.com" target="_blank">malagemann@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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>> Matt Lagemann <<a href="mailto:malagemann@gmail.com" target="_blank">malagemann@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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>>> >(the color blind herald... and Babylon 5 fan)<br>
>>><br>
>>> What is Babylon 5? Is that the name of the ship in the Battleship<br>
>>> movie?<br>
>>><br>
>>> - Midair<br>
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>> Oh, I see what you are trying to do there... you are trying to goad me<br>
>> into ranting about the atrocity that is the Battleship movie. But it isn't<br>
>> going to work. I have more self control than that.... unlike the people<br>
>> behind the movie Battleship! I mean come on! What were they thinking?!?<br>
>> Did they just walk down the board game aisle and pick a game at random to<br>
>> make a movie about? What is next? A medical drama called Operation? Or<br>
>> how about a show about a failing thesaurus writer who takes up horticulture<br>
>> entitled Apples to Apples?!?<br>
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