The curse(?) of small universe syndrome
- Thread starter Laura Cynthia Chambers
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It's all good. It took me a second to realize your mistake.Damnit, I did it again!
Dont get old, Jonny.
That's what I meant.
I still tend to mix up "Metamorphosis" and "The Changeling." The titles are so generic I have to think hard to remember what the actual plotlines of those episodes are.
Similar situation SYNDROMEs. (Mudd-stomach poke.)It's all good. It took me a second to realize your mistake.
I still tend to mix up "Metamorphosis" and "The Changeling." The titles are so generic I have to think hard to remember what the actual plotlines of those episodes are.
If memory serves, IMMUNITY SYNDROME is also one of Space 1999's episodes. And another in their collection was almost a LOST IN SPACE swipe (''All That Glisters'' in 1999's case).
That's right. Back when I was a kid in the late '70s, our local station had a weekly "Showcase" programming block showing Star Trek and Space: 1999, and one week, some wag at the station scheduled both shows' "The Immunity Syndrome" episodes back to back.
Part of the reason the universe is small is because of a desire to learn (viewers/readers) and develop (writers/authors) more details about things (tech, species/cultures, planets etc.) that didn't exist until a writer invented it.
If you write a factually correct story about the city you live in now, set in the present day, anything a reader wants to know about the city can be learned without somebody having to create it from scratch for that purpose - from books, the Internet, an expert who lives there.
If you write a story now about an alien planet you invented and tell your readers ten things about it, they can't pick up a reference book written five years ago and learn twenty additional things about it (though of course they can speculate with other fans or in their own mind).
If you write a factually correct story about the city you live in now, set in the present day, anything a reader wants to know about the city can be learned without somebody having to create it from scratch for that purpose - from books, the Internet, an expert who lives there.
If you write a story now about an alien planet you invented and tell your readers ten things about it, they can't pick up a reference book written five years ago and learn twenty additional things about it (though of course they can speculate with other fans or in their own mind).
That block certainly could have gone to town with temporarily dead male TOS regulars.
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