Babylon 5
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"Trade Dress" violation would expose the studio to a C&D/lawsuit if B5 featured a prominent ship named Enterprise. This is essentially any recognizable, unlicensed reference to a trademarked element. It covers a lot of gray-area ripoffs: Spock ears, Vulcan salutes, redshirts, etc. This is the same reason why you can't draw a silhouette of the Enterprise and sell it on a T shirt.
With Stargate, the Trek references pretty much fell under the umbrella of parody, as most references were jokes (ie, the episode 200). When they had a Trek actor on the show (like Armand Shimmerman/Quark), they were very clearly differentiated from their Trek characters despite that huge opportunity for playing to a very well-known character.
Carter: Inertial dampeners.
O’Neill: Cool… and check.
Carter: Engines.
O’Neill: All check. Phasers?
Carter: Sorry, Sir.
With Stargate, the Trek references pretty much fell under the umbrella of parody, as most references were jokes (ie, the episode 200). When they had a Trek actor on the show (like Armand Shimmerman/Quark), they were very clearly differentiated from their Trek characters despite that huge opportunity for playing to a very well-known character.
Carter: Inertial dampeners.
O’Neill: Cool… and check.
Carter: Engines.
O’Neill: All check. Phasers?
Carter: Sorry, Sir.
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I really miss O'neil (with two L's 
) and SG1
) and SG1
Naked Enterprise. This Summer on HBO.
Where would Captain Kirk keep his communicator?
It's actually just looks like bad phrasing or grammar. Is there a word or something missing here that, when corrected, would help me understand the phrase better?
Was trying to think where it was, and remembered at last: in one of David Feintuch' s Seafort novels there's a nice comment from a scholar aboard UNS Hibernia about how in alternate realities their interstellar ship might be HMS Britannia or USS Enterprise. His audience find such a ludicrous idea very funny.
Nipple ring, I suppose.
Phaser on the other one or perhaps "holstered" lower down?
No phaser. He comes in peace for all mankind.
I'm watching B5 with my wife, for me it's the second time that I am watching the show and it's a lot better than I remembered
Are you still in the first season? That season especially benefits from having seen the rest of the show.
The end of the season was really strong. I mean overall it was shaky, but the way that season ended and with that insane finale, it really set the stage for what was to come, kind of like how DS9 set the stage for the rest of the series with Duet and In the Hands of the Prophets.
This thread prompted me to pull out my B5 DVDs (which I haven't watched in years) last night. Watched the first four or five episodes, and yeah... It's better than I remember. I remember it being terrible until S2, but I'm really getting into it again.
There goes my month
That scene is in the first book, Midshipman's Hope. I'm a huge fan of those novels.
I really want to watch the show again but I don't want to pay much for it. It is a really good show.
Rent the DVDs then. I assume some money will make its way back to the creators and actors, or if not them, then to Warner Bros, who might decide to pull their fingers out and do something with the property.
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