That episode "Marauders"

[Hathaway Brown]

Is it just me or does the Season 2 episode Marauders (where the crew help protect that mining colony from Klingons) borrow its plot from Disney-Pixar's a bug's life? The Klingons/Grasshoppers come each year for their supplies and get angry when its not enough. Flik/Archer concoct a scheme to scare them away.

 

[Mach5]

Is it just me, or someone here has never seen Seven Samurai?

 

[ALF]

They say there are really only about a dozen "unique" stories to be told... and that they are sufficiently mixed and re-told often enough that it's not noticeable.

 

[Hathaway Brown]

Is it just me, or someone here has never seen Seven Samurai?

Never even heard of it!

 

[bluedana]

Is it just me or does the Season 2 episode Marauders (where the crew help protect that mining colony from Klingons) borrow its plot from Disney-Pixar's a bug's life? The Klingons/Grasshoppers come each year for their supplies and get angry when its not enough. Flik/Archer concoct a scheme to scare them away.

Yes, and Pixar did it better. At least Hopper isn't in any position to nuke the ant colony from space once the circus bugs leave.

 

[Mach5]

Never even heard of it!

Hardly a laughing matter (assuming this wasn't sarcasm)...

You're not one of those people who only watch American moveez, are you?

Yes

From Memory Alpha:

This episode was inspired by the feature film The Magnificent Seven, which itself was inspired by the Japanese film Seven Samurai.

 

[JiNX-01]

Is it just me or does the Season 2 episode Marauders (where the crew help protect that mining colony from Klingons) borrow its plot from Disney-Pixar's a bug's life? The Klingons/Grasshoppers come each year for their supplies and get angry when its not enough. Flik/Archer concoct a scheme to scare them away.

The Magnificient Seven, minus the quality.

 

[Skywalker]

Is it just me or does the Season 2 episode Marauders (where the crew help protect that mining colony from Klingons) borrow its plot from Disney-Pixar's a bug's life? The Klingons/Grasshoppers come each year for their supplies and get angry when its not enough. Flik/Archer concoct a scheme to scare them away.

The Magnificient Seven, minus the quality.

The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai.

 

[TexasNightt]

How many have been able to sit through, Battle Beyond the Stars?

 

[Vincent Law]

Rather than chastise anyone for not having seen it, I would simply recommend that they might watch Seven Samurai. It is an old film, but a good one, which breaks through the barriers of both language and time.

 

[JiNX-01]

Is it just me or does the Season 2 episode Marauders (where the crew help protect that mining colony from Klingons) borrow its plot from Disney-Pixar's a bug's life? The Klingons/Grasshoppers come each year for their supplies and get angry when its not enough. Flik/Archer concoct a scheme to scare them away.

The Magnificient Seven, minus the quality.

The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai.

Yeah, I know. Most people in the U.S. are better acquainted with TMS.

 

[Skywalker]

To be honest, I just wanted to use that facepalm image.

 

[Mach5]

How many have been able to sit through, Battle Beyond the Stars?

I have!

James Cameron worked on that trashy delight, actually.

Yeah, I know. Most people in the U.S. are better acquainted with TMS.

Which is a great movie, but come on! Seven Samurai isn't just Akira Kurosawa's best known film and a classic, but also probably one of the top ten motion pictures of all time, right up there with Citizen Kane, Fellini's Amarcord, Kubrick's 2001, The Godfather, etc...

 

[JiNX-01]

How many have been able to sit through, Battle Beyond the Stars?

I have!

James Cameron worked on that trashy delight, actually.

Yeah, I know. Most people in the U.S. are better acquainted with TMS.

Which is a great movie, but come on! Seven Samurai isn't just Akira Kurosawa's best known film and a classic, but also probably one of the top ten motion pictures of all time, right up there with Citizen Kane, Fellini's Amarcord, Kubrick's 2001, The Godfather, etc...

Yes, I know ... I get it! Take it easy! You'll blow a blood vessel.

 

[Hathaway Brown]

Rather than chastise anyone for not having seen it, I would simply recommend that they might watch Seven Samurai. It is an old film, but a good one, which breaks through the barriers of both language and time.

Thank you!

As you can tell I've seen neither that film nor Magnificent Seven so I apologise if bug's life is my only reference to that particular plot when I saw that Enterprise episode again.

 

[Mach5]

Yes, I know ... I get it! Take it easy! You'll blow a blood vessel.

I'm fine now...

It's just...

It kinda reminded me of a situation from a while ago, when a friend of mine took out his cell phone saying "Hey, I gotta show you my awesome new ringtone! It's that awesome tune from Big Brother!"

It was, in fact, a theme from the Exorcist. My face turned green and I told him where this tune was really from, and he replied with something like "who cares, everyone knows it as a Big Brother theme"...

I wanted to kill him right there...

Thank God, "A bug's life" and "The Magnificent Seven" are at least good movies... Croatian Big Brother is a pile of manure made for simple people with no taste.

 

[ALF]

Rather than chastise anyone for not having seen it, I would simply recommend that they might watch Seven Samurai. It is an old film, but a good one, which breaks through the barriers of both language and time.

Why can they not be chastised and recommended to watch it at the same time?

I don't know. It's like when I was in school, every word we wanted to know the meaning of, the teachers always said the same thing: "Look it up in a dictionary." But now, no one cracks a book for definitions. They type it into google and get it instantly.

I just lost my own train of thought. This thread was about Ferengi Marauders, right?
I often confuse "Marauders" with the Enterprise Ferengi episode for that reason.

 

[JiNX-01]

Which is a great movie, but come on! Seven Samurai isn't just Akira Kurosawa's best known film and a classic, but also probably one of the top ten motion pictures of all time, right up there with Citizen Kane, Fellini's Amarcord, Kubrick's 2001, The Godfather, etc...

Seven Samurai will be showing on Turner Classic Movies at 2:30 a.m. EST on March 21 (actually since it will be after midnight, it will technically be March 22).

You OK, now, Mach5?

 

[TexasNightt]

I'm happy, I've always wanted to see it. The seven Samuri. Too bad Tom Cruise isn't in this one. OHHH if only they'd do a remake.

 

[JiNX-01]

Rather than chastise anyone for not having seen it, I would simply recommend that they might watch Seven Samurai. It is an old film, but a good one, which breaks through the barriers of both language and time.

Why can they not be chastised and recommended to watch it at the same time?

I don't know. It's like when I was in school, every word we wanted to know the meaning of, the teachers always said the same thing: "Look it up in a dictionary." But now, no one cracks a book for definitions. They type it into google and get it instantly.

I just lost my own train of thought. This thread was about Ferengi Marauders, right?
I often confuse "Marauders" with the Enterprise Ferengi episode for that reason.

The ENT Ferengi ep was "Acquisition."
"Marauders" is about deuterium miners with one customer: Sissy Klingons who don't pay for the deuterium because the miners are even bigger sissies.