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A clue! A clue! My kingdom for a clue!

Was it on Syfy? I saw something a while back that matches that, only present day.

This one's bugging me. I remember the scene, I'm certain I do.

I want to say "LifeForce", but that was the one with Patrick Stewart in it, and the bad stuff came from Mars so THAT wasn't it (besides, those were space vampires, not something cast out).

We have some clues. One of them is a space shuttle. The public first saw them anchored to the back of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in 1977, Moonraker had shuttles in it in 1979, and the first test flight of one strapped to the rocket boosters was in 1981. And the movie I was thinking of was from the mid-1980s.

So it's some time around then, I'd say. But sailing ships too. Hmmm...

sounds a bit like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078417/

I have a faint memory of having seen it, back when we had 7 channels and 3 of those where Germans, so you had to make do with what you got..

No-one's got it yet, but Frame is startlingly close...

That's a clue right there...

Still no-one? Hundreds of obscure books you can get, but one relatively modern film and you're all stumped? I believe it not, young Jedii...

OK, more clues. It was made in 1990 and was direct to video. It featured ships of all sorts that ended their voyages in the Bermuda Triangle...or did they...?

You know - I'm sure I've seen this film... (I will mull it over, and try not to think about it, try and sneak up on the answer while it's not looking!)

Is it The Dark Side of the Moon?

That's what I would have said - had I remembered to log on this morning...

Indeed it is. Sorry, DH, pipped to the post by El Viejo!!!

Over to you.

Pangloss wrote:

This one's bugging me. I remember the scene, I'm certain I do.

I want to say "LifeForce", but that was the one with Patrick Stewart in it.

hmmm. LifeForce. you remember PAtrick Stewart. I don't
http://www.fishup.ru/files/45/d7/43/lg_ ... da_may.jpg

Nope, don't remember anything about that film other than Mathilda May.

Selezen wrote:

Indeed it is. Sorry, DH, pipped to the post by El Viejo!!!

Over to you.

Should have been maintenance spaceship, not just maintenance ship as in a ship sailing on an ocean of water or methane . not sour though, made me remember a weird film I never got to really see.. but not to derail, I will not mention more here.

Cheers Frame...

A galactic empire colonises a planet. To help accelerate the evolution of the natives, more advanced beings from its other colonies are brought in. Two other galactic empires establish a presence on this planet… one is an ally of the first colonisers, whilst the other is the enemy of both. The planet’s name is the title of this novel.

Title and author, please.

Although originally conceived, written and published as a single, stand-alone novel, it became the first in a series of five.
The author (who is a major literary figure) is not usually associated with writing science fiction.