Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    rec.arts.sf.fandom    |    Discussions of SF fan activities    |    137,311 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 137,146 of 137,311    |
|    Gary McGath to Evelyn C. Leeper    |
|    Re: MT VOID, 01/02/26 -- Vol. 44, No. 27    |
|    04 Jan 26 19:28:31    |
      From: garym@mcgath.com              On 1/4/26 10:40 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:       > They do the best to keep the reveal hidden: the hairstyles have no       > parts, and the men wear turtlenecks. But they don't have slip-ups,       > because after they filmed the part on "counter-earth" they flopped       > the film. But there are character slips: the main character       > doesn't notice the righthand drive in the car, or the fact that       > his pants zipper is reversed. And although some tests shown the       > organs reversed in his body, they attribute it to errors in the       > equipment; don't they ever put a stethoscope to him and notice his       > heart is on the wrong side?       >       > There is also the question of whether organic molecules should be       > reversed, and therefore taste and act differently.              That reminds me of Blish's _Spock Must Die!_ The transporter (if I       remember correctly) generates a mirror-image Spock, down to the       molecules, and he has to eat specially synthesized food because the       molecules of ordinary food aren't compatible with his chemistry.              --       Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca