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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:54 pm
by Disembodied
Correct! From Flowers for Algernon. Over to you, Kasero!

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:15 pm
by Kasero
Nevada Field, Gobi, the Moon, Vega, the Third Power, Leukemia, Mercant, Haggard, Bull. Some names that can be found in a (huge) series that started in 1961.
Name the main character.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:21 pm
by Lestradae
Perry Rhodan.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:43 pm
by Kasero
Correct, it was quite an easy one I think!

Over to you Lestradae :)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:35 pm
by Lestradae
OK ... I'll try something difficult.

Which TV series had something that could be interpreted as a crossover with Babylon 5, and has been interpreted as such but never explicitly stated by this shows makers, the crossover being an appearance of something very akin to Babylon 5's hyperspace in that series (which is and stays unique there), and a species that might be from Babylon 5.

Name the series, the two episodes, and the species 8)

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:42 am
by Selezen
Series: Space Cases
Episodes: "There all the Honor Lies" (B5) and "Who Goes Where" (Space Cases)
Race: The Straczyn
?

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:05 pm
by Lestradae
No, it's not Space Cases.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:40 am
by Lestradae
Ok, have to help, it's an obscure one.

The episodes in question are the cliffhanger episodes from the second to the third series of the show in question, and the heroes' journey depicted in it is a really long one, even for that show.

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:09 am
by Selezen
Andromeda, episodes "Tunnel at the End of the Light" and "If the Wheel Turns" seem to have a plot that's about right, but I can't identify the alien species as one obviously from B5. The closest I can come is Brakiri or one of the Shadow races. And hyperspace (dimensional tunnel) is the wrong colour.

Darn, this is frustrating - B5 is my favourite show and I wasn't even aware there was another crossover apart from the Space Cases one.

The Lurker's Guide seems to know nothing about it. Even my Google-fu is failing. :-(

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:25 pm
by Lestradae
Andromeda is not it :(

I deliberately chose a really obscure example that would be un-google-able as you probably need to have seen both series to recognise it. I remember seeing the crossover and - after about the first episode in, so much was going on in that story at once - thinking "waaait a minute" suddenly.

But something in your first sentence about the races is getting close :wink:

Hope I didn't put up a question I will have to resolve myself :?

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:06 pm
by Selezen
I crave clues, dahling, clues!!

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:09 am
by Lestradae
La Croix? :mrgreen:

Will think of something cluelike to write tomorrow ;)

Good night

L

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:13 pm
by Kasero
And think that poor myself, not english-speaking native, have to work twice as hard to find an answer :mrgreen:

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:09 pm
by Commander McLane
Kasero wrote:
And think that poor myself, not english-speaking native, have to work twice as hard to find an answer :mrgreen:
That's kind of fair, though, because Lestradae is also not an english-speaking native. So he had to work twice as hard to find the question first. :wink:

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:20 pm
by Smivs
Commander McLane wrote:
Kasero wrote:
And think that poor myself, not english-speaking native, have to work twice as hard to find an answer :mrgreen:
That's kind of fair, though, because Lestradae is also not an english-speaking native. So he had to work twice as hard to find the question first. :wink:
That's one of the great things about this community - we've evolved a sort of collective babel-fish!