TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world NegativeNull @lemmy.world 7d ago

It's Star Trek, UNDER THE OCEAN!!

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Set in "the near future" (the year 2018 in the first season)

Uff.
- The 90's were peak optimism. It's all downhill from there
  
  Yeah binging 90's scifi is very soothing.
  
  Until you hit those depressingly real near future depictions.
- The third season was a skip forward to 2032 and it was somewhat better, but still pretty stupid.
  
  Like they had an android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain. What the hell was the point of that?
  
  Like they had an android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain. What the hell was the point of that?
  
  I'm sure there's a contract that says if you employ one DeLuise brother on a show you need to give the other one a bit part.
  
  It would explain Wormhole Xtreme
  
  Don't diss Wormhole X-treme, there's a reason it, allegedly, performed very well on DVD.
  
  From that little room in the back of the video store which was closed off behind a curtain.
  
  android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain
  
  kind of AI like, when you think about it.
  
  Except I literally mean childlike. He talked like he was a preschooler. It was super stupid.
  
  And I looked it up later last night since I have not watched that shit since the 90s and it turns out actually no, he's not an android, he's part of a genetically engineered species of subhuman slave that most people seem totally cool with in 2032 and some people are bigoted towards them. Also, he looked like he was in his 30s, which means that the 'breed genetic slaves that talk like preschoolers' program should have started around the time the show was being made. Weird that no one noticed.
  
  Also also, the bigoted term for them is GELF, which is amusing if you know Red Dwarf. Especially since it's for the same reason.
  
  I didn't read that whole comment, because I don't want any spoilers as I might try this show as it's one of the rare 90's scifis I don't think I've seen.
  
  Trust me, don't. If you want mostly forgotten 90s sci-fi, there are so many better choices: Odyssey 5, Jeremiah, Earth 2, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Lexx.
  
  Even animated ones like Invasion: America and Exosquad are better. Plus, Invasion: America has Leonard Nimoy in it!
  
  Seriously, I would put Sliders above either SeaQuest DSV or SeaQuest 2032 and it sucked.
  
  The first two seasons (and the first half of season 3) of Sliders were great. The rest, yeah, should join E.T on Atari 2600 in its burial site.
  
  Earth 2! FTW!!
  
  Such a great show! The world building was amazing! (Plus, Clancy Brown!)
  
  Similarly, I've been re-watching the Alien Nation TV series lately. I forgot the extent of the world-building done in that show. It's truly impressive for just one season and a few TV movies.
  
  Clancy Brown is great but Tim Curry is amazing, poppet
  
  peak Tim Curry for sure
  
  I haven't seen that. I'll add it to my list!
  
  Oh definitely! And don't bother watching the film first. They change a lot from it like Stargate SG-1 did. If you don't know the plot, a space ship of alien slaves breaks down over Los Angeles and after several years, it's decided that they get to be made citizens. A "Newcomer" cop works with a bigoted human that slowly learns to respect their culture.
  
  Edit: And, of course, there's a Trek connection or two- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pierpoint
  
  No mention of Space: Above & Beyond?
  
  I thought I knew you, dude
  
  I wish it had gotten the ending it deserved.
  
  How about Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
  
  I never got into it back then and I never got back to it. I should.
  
  It would be nice to have another human who understands what I mean when I say "Raymond T. Butts has ate his last pancake"
  
  No no, not "forgotten".
  
  Seen. I haven't seen SeaQuest.
  
  Is Lexx "forgotten?" I mean I guess it was mor niche than I felt, because of having watched it from TV as like a late night addition to a new-ish young person channel here in Finland.
  
  We actually got quite a lot of the Canadian scifis, Stargate obviously being the supreme one. I watched Hot Tub Time Machine yesterday, which came out in 2010, and this reference made me laugh out loud, because in 2010 all the Jacobs (and me) would've been collectively jonesing for more Stargate, the last seasons and movies (Universe doesn't count) had just run out. I don't think we ever got SeaQuest, because I knew all the shows that were on the five-ish channels we had.
  
  I don't like animated ones as much. I enjoy 80's-90's scifi a lot because it's "bad". Like the boring one camera angles makes it so you can basically listen to most of TNG for example.
  
  On the other hand shows like Sliders had a bit more action in them and usually kinda large elaborate set pieces. God it was good for the first three series, then.... well, without Gimli, son of Gloin, I mean, Pavarotti, I mean, professor Arturo, it just went downhill pretty fast. I'm not even sure I actually have ever watched sliders further than s3 really.
  
  Don't you dare say Sliders sucked. It was balls to the wall amazing. Just.... not all the way through.
  
  Put even for the first 3 seasons, Sliders actually doesn't work as well as TNG with the stilted long one camera takes. Insofar as being something on the second screen that's just playing. I don't enjoy music.
  
  90's scifi is more like about the hopefulness of the writers than it is about how big of a special effects budget they had. Sort of like old Who. Although I have to admit I have not seen all of old Who. I've been meaning to, but.......
  
  I don't think I have seen Odyssey 5 though, that's a bit new. I don't know if it ever aired here, I doubt it. That's too new for "90's scifi" though, but seems like worth a watch, actually. But I imagine it to be closer to the later seasons of Stargate than the earlier seasons of TNG, in terms of camera angles and other such stuff. Gonna check that out though, thanks. And others which I haven't seen as well
  
  Tldr 90s scifi is sort of half "supposed" to suck lol. The jilted camera angles and slightly poor production values are to me what I feel like the "warmth" that hifi snobs talk about with their LP-players and whatnot. U know?
  
  Odyssey 5
  
  Do you mean Babylon 5?
  
  I do not.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_5
  
  I think I missed Invasion:America. Know anywhere I could see it?
  
  Yes! For some reason, it is on YouTube in two long parts rather than broken up into episodes:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEzUt4EotkU
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohAuAyCBFdM
  
  There are two versions, a prime time version and a version edited down for kids. I believe this is the prime time version with a lot more violence.
  
  I disagree pretty strongly with Squid here. The first season was great but it went pretty sharply downhill after.
  
  This was a theme for a lot of 90's scifi.
  
  I always pretend there's just three seasons to Sliders, for instance.

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