Spyke
goosehorsereply
lemmy.world

Farscape is like Mormonism --- gotta watch Trek first to catch the references!

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lemmy.world

You have to watch a LOT more than that!

Some other references:

2001 A Space Odyssey

Looney Tunes (An entire episode was dedicated to the Coyote and Road Runner). That show had numerous other references too, including an appearance of the Enterprise itself.

Dr Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. (Dear John and Hi There for instance)

Dark Crystal

Dracula

Star Wars

There are many many more. The entire show was one big reference to something else.

One of the more esoteric Star Trek references was the aliens urinating. In Star Trek, no one pees. The only time any time of shower/rest room is shown in the entire franchise is in ST:TMP when the Ilia drone appears on the Enterprise. There might be a scene in ST:TOS where Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that's it.

About the only franchise/movie that I cannot think of a reference in Farscape is Stargate.

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ummthatguyreply
lemmy.world

In Star Trek, no one pees.

No longer the case, because of DISCO, which also confirmed the dual dick Klingon theory.

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LOL... I don't think I've seen that scene...aaaannnd not sure I want to.

Thank you for the update though.

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Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that's it.

Archer takes a shower on Enterprise. I think it was a Delphic Expanse episode. There was also that whole decon thing.

Jankom Pog mentions putting a sonic toilet out of commission. They don't show it, but they do give us the flushing sound as he exits.

Voyager has a detailed sonic shower scene with B’Elanna Torres.

Then there is Lower Decks...

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Crackhappyreply
lemmy.world

That's because Stargate made references to Farscape, not the other way around.

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lemmy.world

You mean when it becamse "Fargate" or "Starscape"?

I really liked Ben Browder and Claudia Black in Stargate, however it was really jarring and took a while to get used to.

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macnielreply
feddit.org

Do we really want to subject our offspring to the torment that is no second season?

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its better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.

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lemmy.world

One is just 3 films, the other houndreds of episodes and several films.

How hard can it be? Worst case do the first and then switch!

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hamFoilHatreply
lemmy.world

The best Star Wars are the animated shows. Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch are each better than most of the movies. Andor is also good. So Star Wars is a lot more than just 3 movies.

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Wilzaxreply
lemmy.world

I was about to say, what's this slander? Star wars is 4 movies and 4 tv shows!

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Alt: Lucy from Peanuts dressed as Ray pulling the droid bb88 away from Chuck dressed as Ben like the football kick trick

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sh.itjust.works

The problem is that Star Wars and Star Trek are two different genres. One is sci-fi and the other is fantasy set in space. There nothing wrong with either, but they are unrelated.

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I don’t get why it’s a problem they’re unrelated. Stargate is unrelated to both, and far superior.

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lemmy.world

Is space politics sci-fi or fantasy? It’s got as much religion and politics going for it as knights and wizards.

So how is Star Trek fantasy?

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Suffice to say, it's Star Wars with the space fantasy stuff.

The force etc etc very much is coded as a religion

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davereply
feddit.uk

It’s Canadian is what it is. Explains all.

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leminal.space

I literally started watching this yesterday. No idea how I went so long without seeing it.

The miniseries is kind of rough (emotionally), but I guess I wasn't prepared for >!the destruction of humanity.!<. It's incredibly good though.

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::: spoiler This is how Spoilers work on lemmy. :::

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And how:

::: spoiler This is how 
Spoilers work on lemmy. 
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Trek Wars. Not to be confused with the 1994 cinematic masterpiece that is Tek Wars.

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They aren't very comparable, different genres, completely different stories, different methods of storytelling, and completely different mediums (yes star trek has movies and star wars has shows, star trek is still primarily a series of shows while star wars is primarily a series of movies).

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Its comparing apples and oranges. Or in this case a series of sci-fi shows and a series of space fantasy movies.

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Its comparing apples and oranges.

And we all know peaches are best

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feddit.it

At that point I'll know if I have to get rid of my children

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|| to put it in programmers words: kill the children if they lost their use

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I never got why people like star wars so much. It’s basically 3 “good” (I actually didn’t like it) films and it’s all downhill from there.

If Disney had not done a terrible job then this meme would be more relevant.

Having said that, rouge one was a solid movie (the only good one imo).

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I will bully ppl going the capitalistic Star Wars way.
I feel it will be my duty.

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Heretics, let me preach to you the true religion of Babylon 5. Do not fall for the False God of D*9.

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