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spud42 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:04 am
ffutures wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:15 pm
Re no. 4, I vaguely remember seeing a film at an SF convention which had weapons grown biologically out of bone and other materials, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. Something like that?
yes it is a weapon but also used as a tool by its deadly user....
spud42 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:25 am
crickets??

ok another clue...
its dead owner used it as both a weapon and a tool.


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Dead owner? Something with zombies?
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never.... though i have read a lot of zombie stories...lol

it is definitle sci fi. the owner is both dead and deadly so there were two clues there...

it was a TV series with many seasons, just not near double figures..lol

the characters seem to spend most of their time in space
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doesnt RING a BELL any one???
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spud42 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:53 am
doesnt RING a BELL any one???
{Hitting bell with cricket - not even a tiny tinkle}
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Long running scifi tv show that noone knows from about the same time as farsacape strikes me as being lexx.

It also strikes me as the kind of show that would have dead characters.
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Cmdr James has it..
LEXX 1997 to 2002 4 seasons
The crew consists of the captain of the Lexx, Stanley H. Tweedle; the love slave Zev/Xev Bellringer; the undead former assassin Kai, last of the Brunnen-G; and the love-crazed robot head 790.

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I saw Lexx but I'm damned if I can remember this weapon. Never mind, can't win them all.
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RockDoctor wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:22 pm
spud42 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:53 am
doesnt RING a BELL any one???
{Hitting bell with cricket - not even a tiny tinkle}
No wonder there was no tinkle - you should have used a zombie!
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ffutures wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:34 pm
I saw Lexx but I'm damned if I can remember this weapon. Never mind, can't win them all.
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its on a long retractable wire, he used it to kill or as a grapple...
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Still rings no bells. Never mind, it's been a LONG time...
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spud42 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:54 am
Cmdr James has it..
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Commander_X wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:08 pm
<making delicate cough sounds>
Facehugger in your throat, Mt Hurt?
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So, inspired by the facehugger comment.... Id like to know 3, because at the moment I can only think of 3 myself, aliens/monsters/scifi whatever types of life that use other species to reproduce. We already had the aliens franchise, and Im not looking for vague startrek style every humanoid is somehow genetically compatible but rather species that require or commonly use "foreign" genetic material. Like the aliens in alien.
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Star trek TNG, identity crisis, it is a parasite that is using humanoid genetic material.
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