From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:33:05 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [NOISE] Re: Star Trek: First Contact
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[ I freely admit this is noise ]

In list.cypherpunks, rah@shipwright.com writes:

> At 3:57 am -0500 11/23/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>For the fans of E.E.(Doc) Smith, go see this movie.
>
> Lensmen of the world untie your bracelets! Free yourselves from your weevil
> capitalist masters!

C'mon, both of you... 'First Contact' falls _way_ short of Doc Smithean
proportions.  Although Data's charade did kinda remind me of the fourth
Skylark book, in terms of plot-device rescue of a failing direction.
(IMHO, Doc Smith is the master of the over-the-top school of sci-fi
plotting)

> Even Babylon 5, AKA "Science Fiction He Wrote", has a bigger clue.

B5 is my current favorite TV sci-fi, when I even turn the damned thing
on.
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           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]      roy@scytale.com
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