No, but if I did, I would just take the direct approach.
Isn't hat a cop show?
Parallel Earth: Oh, kind'a weird. Oh well. WHAT?!
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You must be in the only industry that doesn't use jargon.
Yes. a very dry and direct cop show.
Nice, I will have to check it out.You must be in the only industry that doesn't use jargon.
Yes. a very dry and direct cop show.
I wonder what "derailed" would mean in space? Spat out of warp, spinning around like Voyager in "Timeless?" (Yes, I know that was Slimstream, but still.)
The third season ST episode "The Paradise Syndrome" introduces an ancient alien race called the Preservers, who transplanted Native Americans to a different planet. In the 1970s, fanon used the concept to explain other times this may have happened in Star Trek, but unfortunately the Preservers were essentially forgotten by later productions (probably because holodeck adventures became the episodes with cost-cutting use of back-lots and reused period cotumes).With Stargate, it was less parallel Earths, more Earth-like planets with transplanted humans, but I get what you're saying. Earth-like village of the week with English-speaking humans was a core concept of the series, and everyone planet looks like Canadian wilderness.
I was thinking of if TNG had done the parallel earth thing with shows around on the Paramount lot as the same time it was filming. Picard beams down to the planet of "Family Ties" or some shit.
Is that the episode where Captain Kirk got amnesia, became a native America, got married, became a father (she was pregnant), but then she died and he remembered who he was, and then the Enterprise just flies away?
Oh, I would have absolutely loved it if the Enterprise-D found a parallel Earth that had unique geology, but otherwise resembled 90's Earth culture.
I feel like the "Enterprise" western episode was like a wink and nod to the silly TOS parallel Earth episodes. To this day, that is a top favorite ENT episode. 
Yes, I agree to that, that's how it felt to me too. It's a favorite for me too.Oh, I would have absolutely loved it if the Enterprise-D found a parallel Earth that had unique geology, but otherwise resembled 90's Earth culture.
My attempted list of parallel worlds from TOS. YMMV
Parallel Worlds of TOS:
Parallel Worlds of TOS:
- Post-pandemic 1960 World (Miri)
- Fairy Tale World (Shore Leave)
- Circa 1800 World (The Squire of Gothos)
- 1969 Earth World (Tomorrow is Yesterday)
- Circa 1900 World (The Return of The Archons)
- Farming World (This Side of Paradise)
- Medieval World (Errand of Mercy)
- 1930 Earth World (The City on the Edge of Forever)
- Los Angeles Locations World (Operation: Annihilate!)
- Greek World (Who Mourns For Adonais?)
- Halloween World (Catspaw)
- 1920's Gangster World (A Piece Of The Action)
- 1940's Nazis World (Patterns Of Force)
- Post Chemical Warfare World where the US Yankees finally beat the Chinese Communists (The Omega Glory)
- Roman World (Bread And Circuses)
- 1968 Earth World (Assignment: Earth)
- Native American World (The Paradise Syndrome)
- Westworld (Spectre Of The Gun)
- Back to Greek World (Plato's Stepchildren)
- Earth History World, Part 1 (Requiem For Methuselah)
- Earth History World, Part 2 (The Savage Curtain)
This is literally a quarter of the series.My attempted list of parallel worlds from TOS. YMMV
Parallel Worlds of TOS:
- Post-pandemic 1960 World (Miri)
- Fairy Tale World (Shore Leave)
- Circa 1800 World (The Squire of Gothos)
- 1969 Earth World (Tomorrow is Yesterday)
- Circa 1900 World (The Return of The Archons)
- Farming World (This Side of Paradise)
- Medieval World (Errand of Mercy)
- 1930 Earth World (The City on the Edge of Forever)
- Los Angeles Locations World (Operation: Annihilate!)
- Greek World (Who Mourns For Adonais?)
- Halloween World (Catspaw)
- 1920's Gangster World (A Piece Of The Action)
- 1940's Nazis World (Patterns Of Force)
- Post Chemical Warfare World where the US Yankees finally beat the Chinese Communists (The Omega Glory)
- Roman World (Bread And Circuses)
- 1968 Earth World (Assignment: Earth)
- Native American World (The Paradise Syndrome)
- Westworld (Spectre Of The Gun)
- Back to Greek World (Plato's Stepchildren)
- Earth History World, Part 1 (Requiem For Methuselah)
- Earth History World, Part 2 (The Savage Curtain)
I have to say, and I’m sorry to put it this way, but the example I’ve seen here was your reaction to “hanging a lampshade” — which was nothing of the kind. I would simply suggest, before “calling someone out”, you consider what they may be saying — and that it may be perfectly reasonable for them to put it that way. It’s simple politeness, nothing more. It’s entirely possible that other people use expressions you happen to be unfamiliar with at first, and that’s okay.
I'll say again - my issue is with the language, not the person using it. Additionally, I have known pseudo-intellectuals who try to sound smart but can never give a straight answer. Why am I the bad guy for disliking language that's not common everyday conversational speak, for lack of better words?
I do not go with the grain, never have, never will.Understood — but the language (in this case anyway) isn’t “super smart sounding fake-intellectual BS fancy words”, it’s just an expression you hadn’t happened to run into until a certain point. And we all of us spend our entire lives occasionally running into those (and learning them in the process). That’s not something to “call out”; hell, it’s something to enjoy.
This is literally a quarter of the series.
Yet, it is the one that fandom seems to go back to, again and again. It is the gold standard of the Trek franchise. More than likely, because they had to absolutely be creative to get episodes made.
And work with the limits of production at the time. There is this wonderful idea that Star Trek exists without money constraints, but that's not how it works.
I thought Star Trek say there is planetary development law was good enough and then they move on. That's the whole idea.
One of my favorite subtle things about “Archons” is that Sulu and O'Neil were found out because they beamed down in clothes 100 years out of date. I feel like that’s a detail audiences might miss. (Although, maybe in the 1960s when folks got a steady diet of westerns they would be more aware of the difference?)
I don't know, to post on a forum dedicated to talking about a certain entertainment franchise and expect to NOT run across jargon from the entertainment industry doesn't seem logical to me.I'll say again - my issue is with the language, not the person using it. Additionally, I have known pseudo-intellectuals who try to sound smart but can never give a straight answer. Why am I the bad guy for disliking language that's not common everyday conversational speak, for lack of better words?
Also, didn't @1001001 tell you to move on from this particular subject?
He’s using parallel world a bit liberally there. Including time travel and Earthlike planets on the list. Though it is a good list of episodes that used studio assets to save money.This is literally a quarter of the series.
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