Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!JAFFE From: JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Space 1999, UFO, et al Message-ID: <2512@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:27:15 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2512 Posted: Mon Jul 8 16:27:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:19:38 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 From: orstcs!richardt (richardt) [this line is a government dependent non-profit corporation. nuff said?] regarding SPACE 1999: I stomached one episode at the age of nine. The only reason that I watched the second half was that it gave me an excuse not to do something less pleasant, though I can no longer imagine what that could be. I watched 10 minutes of another episode a few years later, on the off chance that I had misjudged the series. I was totally correct in my initial evaluation of the show. It doesn't even qualify as grade 'B'! I might give it an 'F' to prevent bodily injury. Speaking in time travel tenses, the show /was not/will not/is not worth the film it was circulated on, much les the production costs!!! About shapechangers in Star Trek. Besides Garth, there were the two 'magicians.' I don't remember the name of the episode, but Sulu, McCoy, Kirk, Spock, and a few Red-shirts were captured by shapechanged aliens. At the end of the show they turned out to be small, blue green critters that were a cross between a starfish, an amoeba, and a chicken. orstcs/richardt "If I'm human, what are *YOU*?"