Then name one.
Crew getting home during Unimatrix Zero?
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If Will thought anyone that mattered could read Japanese, he wouldn't have been half as bold lifting what he did from the orient.
For anyone who's interested in the origins of "Unimatrix Zero," may I suggest this article. 
Interesting process.
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According to popular consensus there are anywhere from one to thirty-six basic plots, so I think there is a lot of recycling going on myself.
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
Brit
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
Brit
I tend to agree that there are only so many fresh ideas in the universe; the trick is finding new spins if you're going to retell a tale. If your new version doesn't offer anything different, maybe the story isn't worth retelling.
I had read the article before I realized who it was that posted it. Thank you, sir. I happen to like the idea behind your "virtual away mission" story.
I'm curious: what was the Borg story mentioned earlier in the article?
For anyone who's interested in the origins of "Unimatrix Zero," may I suggest this article.
I had read the article before I realized who it was that posted it. Thank you, sir. I happen to like the idea behind your "virtual away mission" story.
I'm curious: what was the Borg story mentioned earlier in the article?
I dare to believe that those 36 do not include the plot to Mars Attacts which was story boarded by tossing a deck of the 50s bubble gum cards in the air and creating the movie in reflection to how the cards lay.
The Virtual mission idea seems similar to the "stay at home" idea the Cytherians in the Nth Degree had by upgrading aliens till they can open space bridges to their homeworld to say "hello".
Why? Why on earth does Voyager have to be back in the Alpha Quadrant, a year before the series ended? Good God!
I thought that they were getting home at the end of season 5 to pick up the torch from ds9 and win the Dominion War since they were the only ship that could jump between the aq and gq in a few hours with out a wormhole.
But the whole premise of Voyager was trying to get home. It couldn't get home before the end, as much as you or I wanted it to (hence all the Barclay and Troi episodes instead). Same with BSG: they couldn't find Earth until the last episode.
They got home in season 3.
Just because they were too stupid to figure out how to get back to the future by themselves (Slingshot, Guardian of Forever, Suspended animation, relativistic speeds to Alpha Centauri to kill time... They're morons. Scotty bent time just by fiddling with his engines during a cold start up, but then Scotty figured also out how to transporter suspend someone for seventy years when Janeway's lot were getting genetic mutation after a couple hours held in their own buffers.) it blarringly seems just like they humbly consented to internment in the DQ by power from on high. They frakked the Aeon once before and left it's Captain marooned in the ass-end of the 1960s. Why not do it again and be masters of their own destiny instead of pets lead about on a leash by idiots erratically fighting a temporal cold war with the elegance of Australian's badgering for a root? Everything that happened after that point was selfinflicted because they all didn't have the balls to be QuasiCardassian about the meat placed at their feet at that there crux and say "No thank you and fuck off" just like they'd said to Q a few months earlier.
Hells bells, if they could get back to the future from from the last days of the American century, think how much easier it would have been to find their own personal "today" if the divide was only 2 decades like during Eye of the Needle"? And if they were time masters? Why not, in the beginning, just go back to before Caretaker was senile, meet up with Susperia when she first legged it, or intersect with the rest of the Nacene before the rest of them, who were to smart enough and important enough not to be left behind on a backwater garrison like a telephone sanitizer, ditched the two Caretakers to their consigned fate?
The usual.
John got home early in farscape, just in time to see that his own puny needs were selfish compared to the weight of all life earth being exterminated by the bastards chasing him, so he about faced and held the line. Thank god Voyager had no continuity, otherwise they couldn't pretend that every loose end was tied off when the final credits rolled over Janeway's undeserved grin fro a job well done..
Besides, as Fun as the Odyssey was, I more preferred how Odysseus got Penelope back in the aftermath of the adventure.
And the BSG people got to earth more than once, or so they thought in BSG, Gilliganing themselves just a little, but the show didn't end when they saw earth. There was hours of TV still left over to play out after they finally found a parking orbit around Sol III.
Just because they were too stupid to figure out how to get back to the future by themselves (Slingshot, Guardian of Forever, Suspended animation, relativistic speeds to Alpha Centauri to kill time... They're morons. Scotty bent time just by fiddling with his engines during a cold start up, but then Scotty figured also out how to transporter suspend someone for seventy years when Janeway's lot were getting genetic mutation after a couple hours held in their own buffers.) it blarringly seems just like they humbly consented to internment in the DQ by power from on high. They frakked the Aeon once before and left it's Captain marooned in the ass-end of the 1960s. Why not do it again and be masters of their own destiny instead of pets lead about on a leash by idiots erratically fighting a temporal cold war with the elegance of Australian's badgering for a root? Everything that happened after that point was selfinflicted because they all didn't have the balls to be QuasiCardassian about the meat placed at their feet at that there crux and say "No thank you and fuck off" just like they'd said to Q a few months earlier.
Hells bells, if they could get back to the future from from the last days of the American century, think how much easier it would have been to find their own personal "today" if the divide was only 2 decades like during Eye of the Needle"? And if they were time masters? Why not, in the beginning, just go back to before Caretaker was senile, meet up with Susperia when she first legged it, or intersect with the rest of the Nacene before the rest of them, who were to smart enough and important enough not to be left behind on a backwater garrison like a telephone sanitizer, ditched the two Caretakers to their consigned fate?
The usual.
John got home early in farscape, just in time to see that his own puny needs were selfish compared to the weight of all life earth being exterminated by the bastards chasing him, so he about faced and held the line. Thank god Voyager had no continuity, otherwise they couldn't pretend that every loose end was tied off when the final credits rolled over Janeway's undeserved grin fro a job well done..
Besides, as Fun as the Odyssey was, I more preferred how Odysseus got Penelope back in the aftermath of the adventure.
And the BSG people got to earth more than once, or so they thought in BSG, Gilliganing themselves just a little, but the show didn't end when they saw earth. There was hours of TV still left over to play out after they finally found a parking orbit around Sol III.
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