Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x03 - "Ghosts of Illyria"
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Last time we had a power cut, I was in the dark, but there was 2 hours battery power on my lap top, on which I was watching a movie I had just downloaded.
"The Circle" staring Emma Thompson.
Well, a DVD 'collection' isn't something you run out and buy. It's something that...happens. Usually over a period of years.
For example, my original DVD collection was "The 13th Warrior."
Until I bought the second one, that was it. I can't remember my second DVD purchase, just like nobody remembers what Buzz Aldrin said when he stepped onto the moon for the first time.
My point is that if you don't have the money to pay for a 20$ monthly streaming subscription, you sure as hell don't have the money for a sizable physical collection. Those can cost several thousands of dollars. I should know.
My first movies were the first 2 Alien movies on VHS. My first DVD was "Godzilla 2000".
But The 13th Warrior came not long after that. My movie collection almost reached 700 movies at one point but I pared it down to about 200 now, so as to focus on the movies I actually rewatch.
I googled the answer years ago, because you are not the first person to say that.
"What magnificent desolation".
From Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman, pg. 40:
Straight from a primary source that worked on the actual production.
FACT TREK, headed up primarily by @Maurice and @Harvey with assist and ass-kicking by me, got a hold of a color photo of the makeup test.
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Almost correct. Armstrong said "magnificent, isn't it?", to which Aldrin replied "magnificent desolation". A lot more poignant than Armstrong's prepared words, for me.
I don't know why anyone would claim that "no one" knows this. It's on the recording
Thank you. Much appreciated.
It seems that my source was incorrect. Yours certainly trumps it.No problem. Glad to provide it! Thanks for asking.
Yeah, there are plenty of 'worthy' movies that I like, but have never bothered buying DVD or Blu-Ray because I know I'll never rewatch them more than a time or two, if that. My collection is reserved for the ones I go back to over and over. And over.
Most rewatched movie?
So, back to Number One...
Here's how I see it. Una is Illyrian as Spock is Vulcan. Meaning, both are and aren't because of their cross-genetic makeup. Una is a gene-modified human but identifies as Illyrian because of the society in which she was born and raised. She's of their tribe. Say a group of scientists who believed in the benefits of gene-modification left Earth because of the stigma of the Eugenics Wars (still present centuries later) and established a colony on Illyria, in no small part because of the native Illyrians' expertise in said science. Generations on, the earthborn have become so extensively modified that they see themselves as a separate race, more Illyrian than human. And maybe they are. The Federation certainly seems to think so, with Una and her kind shouldering that burden. Hence the mystery of who she really is.
Here's how I see it. Una is Illyrian as Spock is Vulcan. Meaning, both are and aren't because of their cross-genetic makeup. Una is a gene-modified human but identifies as Illyrian because of the society in which she was born and raised. She's of their tribe. Say a group of scientists who believed in the benefits of gene-modification left Earth because of the stigma of the Eugenics Wars (still present centuries later) and established a colony on Illyria, in no small part because of the native Illyrians' expertise in said science. Generations on, the earthborn have become so extensively modified that they see themselves as a separate race, more Illyrian than human. And maybe they are. The Federation certainly seems to think so, with Una and her kind shouldering that burden. Hence the mystery of who she really is.
Mine's Conan the Barbarian (1982), 13 times since I bought it in 2001. Of course, Ghostbusters and Star Wars still have the most overall viewings, perhaps around 30.
SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS OR NOTHING!!!
No one else thunk the "Ghost of Illyria" is Fred?
He's a lot more fun than Bitey Hemmer.
Or Moist Hemmer...
You moistn't call him that.
