which is worse, John Saxon Kirk, or Shatner Kirk?

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Is somebody taking notes on this exposition?

#PlanetEarth #Monsterdon

"Captain's Log: star date Act I. It is my job to read some stuff that will help relieve the narrator from all of the exposition."

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Standard Kirk style fight pose

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Ok, hear me out. "Mad Max" but even worse acting/costumes/sets/writing

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fascinating, yes, please do talk about how the engine works, that's top priority here

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Hey, it has John Saxon, so it can't be *all* bad.

And Lurch!

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Transponders don't even go "bee-de-boop!"

Cheap-ass future.

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This really seems like an episode of Columbo so far

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Could you run a car on wood fire?

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star trek the motion picture uniforms version 0.3

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Weird Eloi Morlock inversion but okay. #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974

A literal PEWPEW! Yes!

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#PlanetEarth1974

Pew! Pew!

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lol the smartphone communicator

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So this is pretty much just Star Trek but on Earth. Way to go Gene, great range. #monsterdon

On this week's episode of Star Fleet Academy...
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Tonight, on a terrible Star Trek episode.

GAH WAIT WRONG AGAIN #monsterdon

They are saving on costumes and reusing the Enterprise uniforms.

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#PlanetEarth1974

#Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974 "a handsome racial mixture, largely illiterate" 😬

talking directly into cassette tape

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Offbrand Star Trek TOS music, costumes, and lights, huh

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Ha - story by Gene Roddenberry
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I think this tunnel goes directly to the Love Boat

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ew, "handsome racial mixture?"

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"This is the 22nd century..."
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#monsterdon

Planet Earth was not, as the titles have claimed, "created by Gene Roddenberry".

I've seen about three frames of this and I'm wondering just how much this wishes it were Star Trek.

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And now a message from Bimennan. #monsterdon

Have always loved Saxon. He was in my favorite episode of The A-Team-Children of Jamestown. #monsterdon

I miss the murderous robot at the of Logan's Run already.

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He's talking into a tape player isn't he.

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Hey it's that white guy from Enter the Dragon.
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I unironically like the architecture (and its quasi Star Trek vibe)

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I wanna ride a super-cool tube train.

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Ah yeah, this is a Gene Roddenberry jam. I thought so, but didn't look it up. #monsterdon

no way, it's pax west

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I do love me some narrated exposition.

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It looks like they re-used some Star Trek sets.

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[grand music]

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That's awfully wet for Albuquerque

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the conflicts are gone, which is why we had to destroy albuquerque. that fixed everything.

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🎶 Dink dink. Dink dink dink dink dink dink...🎶

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It’s Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.

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Ted Cassidy!

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not-buck-rogers

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We live in a matte painting

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okay, that was pretty good

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#monsterdonalert

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GO GO GO GO!!

@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza Yeah, I'm specifically thinking about American Godzilla for that.

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@diazona Damn it now I want the Rebellion to team up with an Exogorth to fight a Star Destroyer sized AT-AT
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@combatwombat @paco I admit to being curious how an LLM would handle this, but I think it'd be overkill - I bet we could make a simple classifier that would be 95%+ accurate, and an LLM probably gives little to no improvement beyond that.

Now I'm really temped to get my hands on some data and try it. For science, y'know.

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That's a weird shaped ladle. Also, are they serving papier mache?
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Ok I take it back, not just Majel Barret but at least William Ware Theiss got a paycheck out of this clusterfuck, but hoo boy add them to the “John Saxon Slumming It Interstitial Hall Of Nothing Close To Fame” wilderness years forever indelible guestbook 🤦🏼‍♀️😭
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So... in the 22nd century, they lost all sorts of arts, but found manufacturing harpsichords to be straightforward?

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Tell me more about this... "testing".

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This isn’t going to pass the Bechdel test, is it. #monsterdon #planetearth

#monsterdon Pretty awesome model destruction by the land puppy kaiju 💯

How much of this movie is kids wandering through a maze?
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I thought this place was a handsome racial mixture or something, but all I see are white dudes. And one Native Bohemian. Who's also white.

I mean, I guess to some people that's "handsome". I guess.

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Don't trip, Dink. You won't be able to protect your face if you fall over.

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Breeders but dinks? How can you be a breeder AND have no kids?

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@combatwombat Ah gotcha, makes sense. I guess since you've got separate entries for the main and double features now, I thought it would be doing something to separate toots into one or the other. (Not that it necessarily needs to)

I suppose if you wanted to you could probably borrow @paco 's list of hashtags

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@starkraving666: "It kinda feels like a Star Trek episode."

Me: "Gene never did wander very from from certain ideas."

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Bartelby The “Assistant Director Robert” Scrivner
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Backhanded right off her horse. I'm impressed at the backhand, but not at scientist's horsewomanship.

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@diazona No, it just saves all #monsterdon posts, no further logic applied yet. A configurable list of hashtags for "categories" would be an idea.

BITCH SLAP #monsterdon #planetearth

I subscribe to your newsletter #monsterdon #planetearth

That dress Doc Pulaski is wearing doesn't look very practical.

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Oh no, it's Doctor Polaski again!

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Ok #Monsterdon #FridayThrillerClub #MondayActionMovie #KungFuSat folks chime in.

The Equalizer(Robert McCall) vs The BeeKeeper

@plaidtron3000 I bet "The Savage" just loves it when the doctor talks to him like that... #Monsterdon

Under the water is the ziggurat I always try to make in Minecraft.
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He really should start this expositional voice notes either with "Captain's Log" or "Dear Diary..."

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@skatem

... Majel?

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Is this where Musk got the idea for the Hyperloop?

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"Let the savage pray".

Yikes.

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@CactuarJoe I’m definitely going with “yes” on this—definitely the worst of the year, so far, but we’ve only just begun. We have a long way to go yet.

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@CactuarJoe @yatsu a pro and a gentleman.

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Blonde Lurch is clearly Native Bohemian.

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@kcarr2015 🎉

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Lol, wood-gas burning car! It's actually a pretty great idea, in theory. I've seen nerds do it on the internet. it works, just.

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Bingo... and we shall never speak of this again.

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@Louisa We had to import the 1970s male mindset into the future, to translate confusing sci-fi futurethought for the 1970s audience. #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974

Okay, it's safe to unmute everyone, the scary Gene Roddenbery pilot is over. #Monsterdon

CAN'T WE JUST GET BEYOND THUNDERDOME?

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And #Monsterdon groaned a collective, "Jesus..."

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Handsome. Racial. Mixture.

What does that mean?

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I don't think renewing the air and water in Albuquerque would be enough to ever make it green.

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The tribble with eyes and feet has healing piss... eww.
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Unsolicited dink pics.

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One thing we can definitely say about Planet Earth is that, if it had gotten a series order, there would have been a character named Noonien Singh or thereabouts sooner or later #monsterdon

«Aside from the encounters with the Kreeg, there's a very well-done catfight between Muldaur and Margolin»

sir…

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RE: https://ohai.social/@jeffron/115998857814677336

and in 2011 he was STILL thinking about it

https://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/05/planet-earth-1974.html

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@xerozohar The thing about Gene is he really did need someone to keep a tight leash on him.

...okay maybe i won't use THAT metaphor again but you get what I mean >_>

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No, really, Le Guin wrote a short story about the Ekumen running across a woman-dominated society, called "The Matter of Seggri" and it won the Otherwise Award.

So if you want to see this trope handled by someone who knows what they are doing, look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matter_of_Seggri

https://orbital.horse/@emma/115998853711301462

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Belvera's cyborg dragon mount got an upgrade.
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One pedantic thing I always wonder about in post-apoc fiction :

It's neat that they converted the cars to wood-gas. It's pretty much the only automobile fuel that you could realistically manufacture off-grid.

But ... where did they get the vulcanized rubber for the tires?

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We have ET at home?
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