Roddenberry's other pilots...

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 19:42
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CHRISISALL

Monday, July 3, 2006 1:43 AM

Anyone remember Genesis II, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, or that psi one w/Lenord Nimoy (Who's title escapes me at the moment...)?
My favourite was Planet Earth, w/John Saxon (doing a very good 'Kirk'), it was the cat's whiskers.

I want these ALL on DVD!!!

N O W !!!!!!

Child of the seventies and eighties Chrisisall

SHADOWFLY

Monday, July 3, 2006 2:49 AM

Another one of your portentous topics. Get a life boy.

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 3, 2006 2:56 AM

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Originally posted by ShadowFLY:
Another one of your portentous topics. Get a life boy.

Portentous my posterior. Please, get a thesaurus, you're killin' me with that one and only word, Miss.

Chrisisall

DAVESHAYNE

Monday, July 3, 2006 3:04 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I want these ALL on DVD!!!

N O W !!!!!!

Child of the seventies and eighties Chrisisall

Hmmmm. The only one of those I think I've seen is the Nimoy one. Hard to say if it was worthy of a dvd. Not good enough to be good not bad enough to be MSTed.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

ADAMWANKENOBI

Monday, July 3, 2006 3:21 AM

"Assignment: Earth" was technically the pilot episode of a proposed Star Trek: TOS spin-off, even though it was still an actual episode of TOS.

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 3, 2006 3:23 AM

The Nimoy one was the weakest, hence my lazy memory of it's title. But the others I listed were sci-fi gold, as far as I'm concerned!
Especially The Questor Tapes, the 'outsider wanting in' theme as good as it gets, and the absolute template for Data on TNG.

Great Bird Historian Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 3, 2006 3:29 AM

Okay, the other pilot w/Nimoy was Spectre.
It was good, but not great. Came out the same year as Star Wars; that pretty much overshadowed everything that year...

Except Annie Hall

Chrisisall

DAVESHAYNE

Monday, July 3, 2006 4:12 AM

Well I guess the Nimoy show might slide as the weak show of a compilation. And be fair Annie Hall is a good movie.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 3, 2006 4:17 AM

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Originally posted by daveshayne:
And be fair Annie Hall is a good movie.

Good, yes. But more deserving of an Oscar than Star Wars????

The Force apparently has a weak influence on the Oscar voters Chrisisall

DAVESHAYNE

Monday, July 3, 2006 4:50 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by daveshayne:
And be fair Annie Hall is a good movie.

Good, yes. But more deserving of an Oscar than Star Wars????

Well I will admit the special effects in Annie Hall weren't that spectacular but for everything else.... Yeah, I'd say it deserved an Oscar at least as much.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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