something that just popped into my mind

POSTED BY: jlin13
UPDATED: Thursday, January 4, 2007 02:16
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JLIN13

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 9:13 PM

how many scifi series/movies have had pirates in them? im trying to recall any and i cant, could you help me out?

CYBERSNARK

Thursday, January 4, 2007 12:02 AM

Han Solo was often described as a pirate. A misnomer, actually; he was a smuggler. Never actually stole from anyone who didn't have it coming. Star Wars space pirates (seen in novels, video games, comics, and the RPGs) are much more ruthless. There's a reason there're people like Boba Fett out there, "keeping the peace."

IIRC there were pirates in Farscape as well, though they (or rather, Moya) never hung around.

Various groups of alien pirates jumped Archer's Enterprise. In fact, Archer himself turned pirate when the situation demanded it (though the decision destroyed a little bit of his soul that he may never get back). Another group of pirates tried to steal the Enterprise-D, and ended up killed by Picard's badassitude. Picard and Riker later went undercover with another group of pirates.

Then, of course, there're the Orions seen in Enterprise and mentioned in TOS (and eventually, DS9's Orion Syndicate, which includes non-Orion species).

More Trekkian pirates can be found in the novels, including Captain Calhoun's asshole son, Xyon.

There's the *mumblemumble* Alliance in Stargate SG-1, who are less pirates and more a space-faring Mafia.

Plenty of pirates among the Transformers too, many of them led by Cannonball, who is technically a privateer.

Realistically, pirates are a fact of life in any advanced space-faring culture --there's money to be made by robbing heavily-laden cargo ships, and no government's ever been invented that could acurately police all of its claimed territory (yes, that includes the Federation).

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JLIN13

Thursday, January 4, 2007 12:21 AM

thanks very much, i was asking because i have never really seen too many scifi series/movies except for four or five and never got too deep into them because they never really excited me as much as Firefly/Serenity