though he’d already done one story (death’s other dominion) which was also a mad scientist
The Commander of the Uranus Probe!
Space 1999!!!
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The Commander of the Uranus Probe!
Byrne was a poet, not a scientist. Lots of season one was more poetic than scientific.I had heard about it for this reason: on the Italian Blu-Ray of Space:1999 there was an interview with Johnny Byrne (one of the screenwriters of the series). In the interview he also spoke about "Into Infinity" which was born as an educational project. And he spoke fascinatedly about how thanks to this project he had discovered things like that you cannot exceed the speed of light or time dilation when approaching relativistic speeds.
I remember listening to this interview dumbfounded, because it seemed something so basic that anyone who had a high school knowledge of science knew, or who had read at least 2-3 science fiction novels in his life.
From this I understood that everyone who had worked on Space:1999
a) had NO basic scientific training and were not even interested in filling these gaps.
b) worse, they had NO sci-fi background whatsoever, but not even basic ones.
And the Andersons were angry because people looked much more at the scientific errors in Space: 1999 than in Star Trek. Maybe because in the latter the authors AT LEAST knew the difference between a galaxy and a solar system??? (which they kept confusing in Space:1999)
No, because in the Space 1999 universe "scientific plausibility" didn't exists. Impossible things happened only because the authors said so
That way you could have Dr. Russell and Riddick teaching each other how to properly display certain emotions.
