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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast))
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Space: 1999
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Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 18:16:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 18:16:25 1985
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> Article <625@voder.UUCP>, from kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter)
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|    The only thing I really had a hard time with, other than the fact the
| moon must have been traveling at hyper-speed or falling into space warps
| right and left)

As I remember it, spacewarps played a large part in quite a few episodes.
They went through one just before they got to Psychon (see below); they
passed through a black hole as (I think) the third episode, surviving
because they had a super gravity warp they devised as a result of their
being blasted away in the first place (don't you just *love* it); they
went through one while leaving some people behind inspecting an alien
vessel (which just happened to have a spacewarp detector in it), et
cetera.   They also went through one just prior to returning to Earth
every time they did return (but I'm not certain of that).  Time was thrown
off by these spacewarps, I believe.

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|		was the alien women character in the second season who
| could change her shape into anything.  I can't remember her name (something
| like Myra) but she was played by Catherine Schnell.  I just cannot accept

Maia, played by Catherine SCHELL.

| that a 110-120 pound person can change into a 200lb panther and then into
| an insect!  Something about conservation of mass and energy.  If mass and
| energy are truly the same then a 300lb monster would have no energy left and
| a tiny fly would have so much it probally couldn't contain it.

I can (barely) see the massiveness question; although how a 120 lb insect
could move, I know not... but what really threw me was the fact that
she could transmute in the first place.  How did she hold 120 lbs = 4.889e25
ergs (thank you, "units" :-) of energy together without turning herself
(and the moon) into a mushroom cloud?  Or were her shape changes reminiscent
of a Tleilaxu Face Dancer?

|    I did like the designs of the Eagle Transporters and the Hawk attack ships,
| I thought they looked quite realistic and the concept of the cargo modules
| made sense, although you probally had to be carefull about fancy manouvers
| if you wern't carrying a cargo section as it must have strengthend the
| entire framework.

Eccept that they always flew with SOME kind of module; the cargo module
(plain), or the bomb module (red striped), or *something*.  (Amazing
what you can remember of rotten shows; it just proves the saying about
bad news vs. good news...)

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