Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[SueG]

7 of 9 may bring the chaps in to watch the file, but you'll have to do better than that to get me there! Why not spend the money making more episodes of Firefly instead - much better use I think.
Sue

[Maggi Young]

Okay, Sue, help me out here... I have no idea about "Firefly" ....

[SueG]

OK this is really cult SF, Joss Wheelon (of Buffy fame) made a super SF series called Firefly, which was pulled by shortsighted TV execs before the end of series one, so he made a film of the same characters called Serenity to show some of the rest of the stories which never got made. It knocks spots off much of Star Trek and is generally a sadly lost opportunity!
It's available on DVD which is how I first came across it.
Sue

[annew]

We're enjoying them now, Sue.

[Lesley Cox]

Chloë
(who has never seen Star Trek in any form whatsoever!)

Congratulations Chloe. I envy you.

[Paul T]

Maggi,

7 of 9 wasn't a clone..... when the borg assimilates entities they are assigned the "working groups" (for want of a better term.  She was number 7 of a group of 9, hence the name. Yes, she's in NYPD Blues (if I have the right name for the show in my memory of course).

SO many shows have been canned by short sighted TV execs.  Very frustrating that just because the US audiences have no taste for different Sci Fi the rest of us aren't allowed either.  "Earth 2" was another one that was rather different.  You literally didn't know whether any of the main characters were going to die in an episode, because they were doing so periodically.  It took away some of that saccharine sweetness that you get in some of the Sci Fi shows (i.e you just KNOW that they're all going to live, and that they're always going to prevail etc.... in E2 you couldn't assume that, which I thought was quite refreshing.  The US audience of course didn't like that, so it was cancelled after season 1).  I don't know Firefly, although I love Buffy, Angel etc (although not as much as my wife does... she's collecting the DVD series).  Now Stargate and Star Trek on the other hand I collect myself.  We're a sci fi loving house, just different series for different members!!

Apologies Lesley for sinking your estimation of me even further!! 

[Maggi Young]

My apologies to 7 of 9 for mistaking her origins! It's not NYPD Blue I've seen her in, Paul... something more recent than that.... it's one of the shows I catch half-heartedly in the middle of the night when I'd rather be sleeping, but can't 

[Martin Baxendale]

Okay, just googled 7 of 9 to see what all the fuss is about and found a pic (see below, for those who, like me, had no idea who or what 7 of 9 was).

TV science fiction  has come a long way since I first encountered it. The first space show I watched (and awaited with bated breath every week) was a little thing called Fireball XL5 in the 1950s, a bit like Thunderbirds but with worse puppets (rockets on wires and smoke coming out the back, that sort of thing).

[Maggi Young]

I discover that 7 of 9 is, in real life, the actress Jeri Ryan ... the show I have seen her in is the legal eagle show, (okay so not quite the "cop" show I remembered) "Shark" .
 I would agree that I need to get out more but since the chances for me so to do seem to arise in the late hours of darkness, the opportunities are more than a little limited 

[Anthony Darby]

Suddenly I'm very interested in 7 of 9

[Martin Baxendale]

Since I posted the pic of 7 of 9 my avatar seems to have spontaneously changed all on its own to a strangely leering version of me! Spooky! 

[David Nicholson]

Suddenly I'm very interested in 7 of 9

she looks a very pnuematic young lady with all spread before her!

[Paul T]

That picture DOES tend to enhance her abilities, that is for sure.  While pert, I don't recall them usually being THAT pert!! 

[Carlo]

Now, now boys...easy does it. (Although I believe it was Maggi who set this subject up as "get it off your chest...")

[Martin Baxendale]

And here's a pic I found on the web of a clip from Fireball XL5. As you can see, the crew included an earlier version of blond bombshell 7 of 9, and an especially impressive see-through robot that I remember well.