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Whoa, amazing what you can learn on IMDB. Writers for Sid and Marty Kroft's Land of the Lost included: Ben Bova D.C. Fontana David Gerrold Walter Koenig Larry Niven Theodore Sturgeon Also, Kathy Coleman, the girl who played Holly, got married at age 18 and went to work on her father-in-laws...

The theme song was very catchy. I remember an episode where they found a bunch of packaged groceries in the jungle, for some reason. I remember liking it, but I don't remember why... Some of the sleestak (sp?) episodes were entertaining. I did not like when they replaced the Marshal...

Mr. Borrower Um, could you loan me a rulebook, and some dice, and a pencil? I came to the game with nothing but a character sheet. Mr. Willfully Stupid My character isn't that smart, so of course he won't wait for the rest of the party...he'll just burst through the next door while...

Just a little 'splainin'... I saw one of the plethora of "which is better, X or Y" threads. The one in question was Wars vs. Trek. I decided to do one with the oddest collection of TV I could remember. If you've never seen "The Lost Saucer," then you're missing Jim Neighbors as an android...

Well?

People will love any group, however that group may be defined, that does well by them. They will fear any group that has never done well by them, and MAY do poorly by them. People who live in circumstances where the police are more likely to protect them tend to like them. People who live in...

I'm better at playing devil's advocate, so let me say up front I think the idea is neat. Here are some things that might not mesh so well... 1) The Wild West took place in the Victorian era. You will find some of the attitudes of the classical period to be VERY different. You'll need to...

Or, you could argue that the detection spells are more complicated creatures. They detect how your actions and intents sit in the eyes of the higher powers, not any devotion that you have as an individual. The auras also vary in strength. If any real world human could total up their actions...

I fully agree that a rose-colored view of the future is part of the appeal of Star Trek. Not everything needs to be Blade Runner or Logan's Run. I like the idea that doctors and engineers perform miracles on a daily basis, and humans are sensible enough to ignore skin color and gender as...

Not surprising, given the authors. :) However, consider the following. - A darker, more dramatic reboot has worked rather well for Battlestar Galactica. It could have been done before BG with Star Trek. - A more B5-like Star Trek would have been superior to 2nd season Enterprise, IMHO. -...

Speaking as a rabid wolverine who has not eaten in weeks, I am offended by your characterization. Illness and hunger is hardly necessary for wolverine ferver. Grrr. As for cheap, non-randomized minis...eBay has a sizable second-hand market for minis, and commons can frequently be had for dirt...

Ugh, that ep is blotted from my mind as one of the most nonsensical examples of sexism on TV. Star Fleet doesn't allow female captains? Wow, what a progressive attitude in our future utopia...which is contradicted repeatedly in both canon and non-canon sources. It is barely more tolerable...

I always assumed that Daniel Jackson was translating, but they just hand-waved all that for the sake of keeping the plot moving...

The first female captain we saw on television was in Conspiracy in the first season. However, you never actually saw her or Geordi's mother in the captain's chair. Yesterday's Enterprise was in the 3rd season, and you actually got to see the captain giving orders in a combat situation. I'm...

Nick Nolte in Blue Chips. I think that was called Big Trouble in Little China. ;) New quote:

This, like pretty much anything, also could easily suck. It could devolve into "SWAT in space," for example, with a predictable action sequence each week. Or worse, it could become Starship Troopers, where supermodels fight and die in space, where nobody can hear you overact.

As for being done extremely well...please note the way JMS integrated the Babylon 4 plot line across multiple seasons of B5. If anybody could have kept the complexities of time travel sensible, it would have been him. Having said that, I agree that it could easily be done poorly in other...

I'm guessing...the official D&D cosmology as expressed through the core books and the Greyhawk and Planescape campaign settings. That is just a guess. The other campaign settings pretty much have their own cosmologies.

Certain things in the supplements for Eberron stick out. Magic of Eberron had some great stuff on elemental binding. Sharn, City of Towers had a bunch of cool elements associated with the "city of magic towers" setting, including magic items like lifts (or elevators, for us Americans) and...

Side note from the thread, but IIRC, isn't module X1, The Isle of Dread, set in Greyhawk? That had dinosaurs. :) It occurs to me that we're arguing armor piercing teeth in a setting where "swallow whole" is a viable tactic for a fairly sizable number of beasts. That ignores the attacks that...