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The Golden Girls - Favourite Outfits

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film-o-teka · 7 months

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The Benny Hill Show

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browsethestacks · 1 year

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Vintage Comic - V #014

Pencils: Jerry Bingham

Inks: Jerry Bingham

DC (Mar1986)

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Christina Applegate as Kelly Bundy wearing pink mini skirt and crop top on Married...with Children

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episodicnostalgia · 6 months

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, 117 (Feb. 22, 1988) - “Home Soil”

Teleplay by: Robert Sabaroff Story by: Karl Guers, Ralph Sanchez & Robert Sabaroff Directed by: Corey Allen

The Breakdown

The Federation has asked Picard to check in on a terraforming outpost, since the team that was stationed there has gone radio silent. With the Enterprise’s arrival at the outpost, the project director (Kurt Mandl) reluctantly picks up to explain that nothing suspicious is going on, and that Picard is welcome to politely fuck off (I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist). Counsellor Troi confirms that Mandl is indeed as shifty as his unmistakably shifty behaviour would suggest; so, Picard sends Riker down to check it out. While there, Riker and his team are introduced to the other Terraformers (Arthur, Bjorn, and Luisa), who kindly provide the audience/away team with a useful exposition dump about how the terraforming process works. They impress upon Riker and co. that every planet designated for terraforming undergoes rigorous vetting to first determine that there are NO LIFEFORMS WHATSOEVER, before they begin the decades long process. Geordi starts to nerd out with Arthur about some of the unique challenges this planet has presented, but Mandl sends Arthur away to ‘go work on the drilling lasers’, because they have a tight schedule to keep. Predictably, the drilling lasers go bonkers and kill Arthur, so now we have a mystery on our hands.

Since it does KIND OF seem like Mandl had his guy killed in a cover up attempt, Picard brings the terraforming team to stay on the Enterprise while his people try to find out what caused the malfunction. During that time, Data has his own run-in with the killer-laser (which he destroys) and is able to determine that something was indeed controlling it, but it wasn’t Mandl. Further inspection of the drilled bedrock leads Geordi and Data to discover some glowing matter that exhibits strange properties, so they have it beamed up to Crusher’s lab. There, it’s determined that they’ve discovered the first known non-carbon life form, and that it’s not only attempting to communicate, but also capable of reproducing. What initially looks like a Christmas light on a petri dish, begins to grow until it eventually forms into an exotic looking plastic crystal, roughly the size of a baseball. While this is all initially very exciting for the Enterprise crew, things get a bit more concerning when the non carbon lifeform reveals that it plans to wage war on the gross ‘water bags’ that attacked it (aka humans). To make matters even more dire, the life form starts taking over the ship’s computer functions, as it grows exponentially more powerful.

So what’s going on? Well, it turns out that the terraformers did indeed notice some exotic energy deposits on their planet, but they didn’t think much of it at the time. Little did they know that their terraforming was endangering the saline water deposits beneath the planet’s crust, which apparently serve as a sort of networking system for the micro crystalline life forms living there. So why was Mandl’s team behaving so secretively? Because they’re workaholics and they don’t like distractions, and that’s… apparently the actual reason for their behaviour. With that out of the way, team-Enterprise figures out they can stop ol’ Crystal (I’m calling it crystal now) by dimming the lights, which were evidently the source of it’s power. Crystal agrees to a peaceful surrender, on the condition that no more Water-Bags return for at least 300 years (which is fair enough), and Riker has it beamed back to the planet. Mandl won’t be able to finish his project, but at least it’s led to an exciting new discovery, and all it cost was Arthur’s life. WORTH IT.

The Verdict.

Considering how many aliens look like humans with forehead prosthetics (Yes, I realize there’s an episode that addresses this), it’s kind of refreshing to see a Starfleet crew discover non-carbon life that isn’t just an abandoned supercomputer, or some other kind of artificial intelligence. Realistically, if humans ever did discover extra-terrestrial life, it seems reasonable to expect that it would be almost wholly unrecognizable to us. To that end, I found myself enjoying the story when it focussed on the mystery of a truly ‘new life’, something alien in every sense of the word.

Where the episode loses me is in the red herring that kicks off the episode, which suggests that Mandl’s team are up to no good. We spend much of first couple acts as Picard and Mandl play cat and mouse with the truth, but the answers we’re given don’t really justify the investment we put into them. Mandl WAS acting very suspicious, and Deanna supposedly could sense he was hiding something, so what exactly was he trying to hide? He didn’t murder Arthur, and apparently neither he nor his team were aware that they were harming an unidentified species. Mandl doesn’t even really give any kind of satisfactory explanation for his lack of decorum when Picard first arrived, leaving us to chalk it up to professional tunnel-vision. So, I guess he was trying to cover up… scheduling delays? I don’t buy it. I love a good red herring as much as the next guy (and trust me, the next guy won’t fucking shut up about them), but a red herring still needs an explanation that holds up to scrutiny.

It would have been a stronger choice to have Mandl (or one of his team) acting with malicious intent, leaving a conflict that would be a little more complicated, and more interesting, to resolve. Star Trek doesn’t always need to be a morality play, but that is the foundation upon which the franchise was built, and there was a decent opportunity to weigh the balance of scientific ambition with ethical restraint. As it stands, ‘Home Soil’ narratively amounts to little more than “Woops. Our bad. Sorry about that.” Perhaps that doesn’t classify the episode as an outright failure, but at it’s best this was a missed opportunity.

2.5 stars (out of 5)

Additional Ovservations

The electronic voice given to the NCL (aka “Crystal”) sounds kind of like a slightly less annoying Dalek. Couldn’t the computer have provided it/them with something that sounds a little more dignified?

Troi-spiracy: I think it would be so funny if it turned out that Deanna Troi was just lying about her empathic abilities. I’m just imagining that she never actually inherited any of her mum’s telepathy, but always felt too awkward to admit it (Lwaxana is kind of the worst, and you know she would never let it go), so whenever someone acts obviously sketchy she’s like “Yeah, I can totally sense they’re hiding something with my abilities that I absolutely have.” Maybe Mandl wasn’t acting sus after all. Maybe he’s just a tense fella, and Picard caught him at a bad time, but then he SEEMED off, so Deanna had to pretend that she sensed something. Lucky it all worked out. This time.

Bad Counselling: Riker asks Deanna for the terraform team’s psychological profile. Troi offers that Luisa is basically talented and imaginative, but otherwise an intellectual scatterbrain, and indicates that Riker’s charms might work on her (to get information), presumably because Riker is irresistible to a grieving airhead woman. Yikes.

Riker enters a darkened lab, and approaches the Crystal in a way that I found hilariously, unintentionally, sultry. But you just know Riker would if he’d had more time.

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#hollywood wives #80's #television #mini series #glamour #jewellery #perfume #caviar #flowers #vintage #shoes #consumer culture #1985

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arconinternet · 28 days

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Making the Most of the Micro (Video, 1983)

You can watch this TV series about the BBC-branded 8-bit computer here.

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ggswaywardgifrepository · 2 years

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Me, objectify attractive men? Pshaw. Have some gifs from Riptide (Pilot, parts 1 & 2), AKA the best show of all time. I have more but this is the limit per post. And I should probably quit before I look any creepier.

#riptide #80s television #riptide tv series #gifs #gifspam #1980s #1980s tv #joe penny #perry king #roboz #whitey tighties

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boypussydilf · 6 months

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getting worked up over Doctor Who Lore is just so funny “but this thing is contradictory!” “this new lore drop is gonna ruin everything forever!” “oh that thing can’t happen that’s too absurd” guys the doctor’s abilities include being able to fully understand babies and animals & also straight up flight. who cares

#obsessed w the ‘he has a funny robot dog’ tweet #i feel like most likely there’s a lot of people who don’t have as much perspective bc theyve only seen nuwho #WHICH IS FINE. you dont have to watch an additional 26 seasons of television #to earn the right to have an opinion on the 2005- series or whatever #you can do whatever you want forever #but like #‘the lore the continuity-‘ there is much you do not know.#we’re lucky the concept of time lords stuck around!#do they ever mention the hads/state-of-grace circuitry in the modern series i cant remember #Did you guys know the TARDIS is supposed to have a field #that completely prevents any hostile or violent actions from occurring inside it?#That’s okay! Neither did the writers 80% of the time!#basilposting

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