-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ 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. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@scytale.com DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey@scytale.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMpf1iRvikii9febJAQEK4wP+MEQIK5EoFf5UC9MQrm5MEeBcB1dhLsbQ aB2ZxZ0DzRQX8YqYpSCVlnvBc9XvtGTvHq+hK0t88HRLv0vFnD6By+cZaOlFmwMM NTXXpQl+PbYL0mNEEIZe+4ZmOrjsZSzROpuXBAu2t7ijaSp+PzGKV8Boq6BWfw+M hNdqkK5friw= =vMae -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----