oh my god even the fighting is star trek

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PEW #monsterdon

"A converted wood gas fuel system."

Someone break the news to him that in the 2000's we're running cars on corn.

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Boomer falls
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Less than 5 minutes in and we're mashing up Star Trek and Wacky Races.

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I wonder if these guys were part of the inspiration for Gorkamorka #monsterdon

automobeeels

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Back then having a black man as an elder scientist was unusual.

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It’s the original “Mad Max” without all the special effects
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It's Lurch!!!

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#monsterdon WHO WOULD WIN?

Star Trek or Mad Max?

Oh no! Not nameless character! You will be missed by the other characters not yet introduced. #monsterdon

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it’s Lurch!1

Gene Roddenberry… that makes sense on a LOT of levels. #monsterdon

Yeah, we know who the current day equivalents of the purple unis are. We don’t have to say it.

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That blonde guy better have pointed ears and no sense of humor....

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That jeep doesn't look very stable
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#Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974 wow this totally feels like a mix of TOS and early-season TNG

Stole some of the madmax set peices too huh?
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HAHA!! That tiny tiny little bird pew pew sound from the laser gun thingy!

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Wait a minute is this an unproduced pilot #Monsterdon

Lurch has a really soothing voice.
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*pew* #monsterdon

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not sure that this 2233 or whatever would still want to make all their clothes out of doubleknit polyester in the leftover colors

Previously, on Planet Earth...
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GodDAMN, this is a LOT of exposition

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Hi Lurch! You rang? #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth

YOU RAAAAAANG?!

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What was that? A squirt gun?

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...HEY ain't that Lurch #monsterdon

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What's that about their racial mixture?

This looks like an SNL parody. #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth

Justman was involved!? Oh....universe, this was a series pilot wasn't it?

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So much narration!

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It's me, I'm only capable of understanding machinery and warfare.

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That's right blame the boomer
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It's the future yet tablets have devolved #monsterdon

Mad PAX: Fury Road

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#monsterdon Dude, your walkman isn't going to work if you don't close the door.

Stand back, I'm going to shoot the 2-story Jeep with my Grecian Formula dispenser! Pew pew!

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Hey! A palm pilot! #Monsterdon

ah, it's UC Irvine. #Monsterdon

also honestly, and in the face of literally everything i know and have seen in monsterdon, i love john saxon. this movie cannot possibly be the worst.

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What if we have a prologue narrator and then we have him narrate the story!
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"a handsome racial mixture" yyyyikes

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Low budget Max Max.

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A big Matriarchal Welcome to new Monsterdon participants and lurkers! Special welcome to those new on the Fediverse!

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Brick cell phones in 2133.

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Is this Star Trek canon? #Monsterdon

Roddenberry! Justman! Muldaur! #monsterdon

Wait, is this a movie, or a pilot for a TV series? #Monsterdon

kinda looks like the UC San Diego campus....

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Is that UCSD with extra flowers?

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Dylan Hunt was later used for another Roddenberry character played by Kevin Sorbo... which is why it's now cockney rhyming slang!

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Which episode of ToS is this?

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Pax has the same buildings a bunch of universities built in the 60s & 70s, those ugly concrete monstrosities with really narrow windows

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Well, we got ✅ Star Trek-like set pieces instantly. Nice!

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#startrek like set peices right out the gate and some exposition to clue you in before the credits #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974

Bite my shiny, metal movie title!

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The last vestiges of civilization has uniforms that are slimming and very flattering to the hips! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon starting John Saxon co-star of every movie in the 1970s.

it's the future and people stopped fucking up the world for the most part, so we're sending out a brave explorer to figure out how we can resume fucking up the world, did I get that right?

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Honestly, off to a good start with Rodenberry and Saxon.

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OOOOOOO, Story by Gene Rodenberry.

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Meanwhile in Mat Painting One. #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth

there it is, created by gene roddenberry. strap in, people.

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#Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974 Rolling...

Voiceover. Obvious pilot episode is obvious!

yeah this is already too complex for my monkey brain #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974 meanwhile, in matte painting city

A tribe of Fascists then?

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Wait, this is Gene Roddenberry???

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#monsterdon So this is the one city that escaped "Final Conflict"?

You mean ... that other Roddenberry show about alien cops?

i associate John Saxon with Mitchell (1975) so that really promises quality
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Wait Diana Muldeur? again?

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@blue There will be an exam after the movie
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I recognize that typeface from somewhere. #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974

“In some places, savagery; in others, people live in peace with lions.” #monsterdon

Joining #monsterdon a minute or two late and seeing the future is a sort of Epcot Center?

Arrgh ... this music ...

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Starring John "I can't stop blinking" Saxon!

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Suspended animation accident. And a lot of voiceover. #Monsterdon

Suspended animation accident. I hate when that happens.
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Bringing "civilization" never a good goal #Monsterdon

Good lord that title font.

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"Handsome racial mixture...."

Ay?

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Ok, they just kind of skipped a whole lot of stuff, jumping right into "this is what already happened" stuff... Was this originally meant to be a TV series or something?

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Some hot tunnel action right at the start #monsterdon

wasn't this a tv series then?

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Pax romana? I'm thinking about the roman empire again...
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#Monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974 Gene Roddenberry tiiiiiime

PAX? the Penny Arcade Xpo? #monsterdon

Ha! The suspended animation accident is a great plot device – used well in both Futurama and Idiocracy

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Pax it up, Pax it in

Let me begin

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Tonight on Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

wait... wrong again. dangit! #monsterdon

To boldly go where no man has.. oh wait. #Monsterdon #PlanetEarth

I call BS. I don't see Kirk trying to climb El Capitain.

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Oh hey, That is Earth. I'd recognize it anywhere. #monsterdon

#monsterdon opening scene matte courtesy of Bob Ross. No wait, that dude that painted Conan. Shit now we're at a community college. Is a sped-up Bill Shatner narrating this? Please don't feed the Shat speed!

#monsterdon First we gotta dispense with the 30 advertisements to companies we will never use, because they advertise. HAHAHAHA