Science Fiction Trivia

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:46 pm

I wonder at what point it is acceptable to use Google?

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:59 pm

Poro wrote:
I wonder at what point it is acceptable to use Google?

It's a matter of personal taste ... to be honest I'd probably be better off googling the thing rather than guessing episode titles!

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:43 pm

I think maybe google might be best. Soz - didn't think it'd be this hard.

I obviously underestimate the encyclopaedic sci-fi knowledge that should be held by a community of people who play remakes of 1980s space games.

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:02 pm

It appears to be something called Blake's seven. Never heard of it before.

It's a character called Avon talking to another character called Vila.

Didn't find the episode though.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:06 pm

Lucidor wrote:
It appears to be something called Blake's seven. Never heard of it before.

It's a character called Avon talking to another character called Vila.

Didn't find the episode though.

I think the series was originally, due to a misunderstanding over the use of the apostrophe, called "Blakes' 7"

Still don't know what the episode was called though!

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:08 pm

OK, I've slapped it into Google. Was the episode called "Weapon"?

(edit: putting the quote in quotes gets 4 hits; one of them – the top one – is this thread ...

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Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:06 pm

Disembodied wrote:
OK, I've slapped it into Google. Was the episode called "Weapon"?

(edit: putting the quote in quotes gets 4 hits; one of them – the top one – is this thread ... )

That'd almost be good enough for a wikipedia citation <SarcMark>

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:52 pm

Disembodied wrote:
OK, I've slapped it into Google. Was the episode called "Weapon"?

(edit: putting the quote in quotes gets 4 hits; one of them – the top one – is this thread ... )

Ding.

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:20 pm

OK then, me again: what is CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN, and why should we be worried?

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:23 pm

CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN - colour of the Frogstar fighters?
and they're taking us to the Total Perspective Vortex?

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:46 pm

Zieman wrote:
CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN - colour of the Frogstar fighters?
and they're taking us to the Total Perspective Vortex?

No ... but the end result might be similar.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:23 am

No replies?

I got curious and googled, but still am not there.

I can tell you that it's by Charles Stross, has something to do with a (planetary?) constellation, and was due to happen in 2007.

However, I haven't found out yet what it was that was about to happen, except that it is obviously frightening.

Post by **Disembodied** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:27 am

Well, Google will only get you so far! You can find out more if you read one of Stross's entertaining "Laundry" stories, some of which are available free online, e.g. "Overtime" ...

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:31 am

In the meantime some more googling took me to CASE GREEN, which may or may not be related. It was interesting, anyway.

EDIT: corrected the link. The darn Wikipedia produces "(" and ")" if you copy a link, instead of the correctly linkable "%28" and "%29"!

Post by **Disembodied** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:36 am

Interesting! And there's possibly a connection – although probably only in the sense of an author's personal in-joke. Or it could just be coincidence.