Science Fiction Trivia

[ffutures]

Nobody? Okay, after the check-list is complete the usual response is "Everything in order!"

And if it helps at all, this is from a TV show.

[Disembodied]

I had to resort to Google again, but this is from Space Patrol - it's the checklist for takeoff of Galasphere 347. Items 4 and 5 on the list are "Gamma rays on" and "Yobba rays on".

[ffutures]

"Orbital speed zero to twenty thousand miles an hour...." "Check"
"Scanner viewer working..." "Check"
"Astro beam working..." "Check"
"Gamma rays on..." "Check"
"Yobba rays on..." "Check"
"Everything in order!"



Absolutely! Give the man a flipper! Your turn!

[Disembodied]

OK, let's try this … name five characters from SF - books, TV, film, whatever, but with a maximum of one character per source work - who have been frozen or otherwise placed into suspended animation for a long period, and who are subsequently revived.

A proviso: these should be significant characters, not one-off plot devices; specifically, they should have names (so e.g. the alien from The Thing doesn't count). Further: their suspension/preservation should either be accidental, or have lasted for far too long, or both.

[ffutures]

I'm assuming you don't want Han Solo because he wasn't frozen accidentally, so...

1 - Steve Rogers - Captain America in all forms. Frozen in the 1940s, found many years later
2 - Adam Adamant - Adam Adamant Lives - frozen in the Victorian era, found in the 1960s
3 - Montgomery Scott - Star Trek - trapped in a transporter buffer for many years, found by the Next Generation Enterprise
4 - "Ross" (don't think we ever get a first name) - Second Ending by James White. Frozen pending medical advances, survives the extinction of the human race hundreds of years later, and is eventually revived by robots, then frozen again for millions of years while they evolve a second human race and girlfriend for him on a world in another solar system.
5 - Miles Monroe - Sleeper - frozen without his consent for a couple of hundred years. Must admit having had to look his name up.

If you extend this to fantasy you could also have Hermione Granger and others petrified by the basilisk in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and later revived.

[GadflyBee]

I feel like Scotty is a bit off for this, 'cause there was no body or anything physical that was suspended, just data.

I suggest for replacement the rather extreme case of Dr. Frank "Oh I was just freeze-dried/semi-exploded after being ejected into outer space for 1000 years, but I'm Fine now" Poole, from 3001: Final Oddyssy. (I had to look up his name...)

[Disembodied]

I think Scotty-in-a-transport-buffer is OK … back to ffutures again!

In retrospect, I should probably have asked for ten examples, not five! There are loads: Lister, in Red Dwarf; Dylan Hunt, in Andromeda; Buck Rogers; Graham, in The Sleeper Awakes; Ripley, at the beginning of Aliens; the gladiator Eugeni, in The Far Arena; "Link", in Encino Man … and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" is just a modern version an older folktale.

[Smivs]

And who can forget Sly Stallone's character John Spartan from 'Demolition Man'.

[Cody]

I had four - but I wondered if George Taylor (PotA) would qualify?

[Disembodied]

I had four - but I wondered if George Taylor (PotA) would qualify?

I don't think so - that was just your common or garden time-travel …

[ffutures]

And who can forget Sly Stallone's character John Spartan from 'Demolition Man'.

Nobody - they just wish they could!

I won a free ticket to that when it launched, got to the cinema... and there were only two other people there, and I think one of them walked out before it ended.

OK, let's try something a little more straightforward: Name a 2010 science fiction novel, by an extremely prolific author who has never been a Hugo award nominee or winner, in which earth is subjugated and nearly destroyed by doglike aliens, but (in one of the least surprising surprise twists ever) saved by vampires.

[ffutures]

OK, easy clue - the author is best known for MilSF

[spud42]

i googled the answer.....

Mr David Webber ?

[ffutures]

Weber it is! Out of the Dark, possibly the worst "stupid aliens invade Earth" story I have ever read. I point the Ripper in your general direction!

[spud42]

ok next question..
mid 90's time travel TV show filmed on the Gold Coast