Sci-Fi Trivia

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What killed the Krell?
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  • Head and Shoulders?

    Edit: wait that might be Prell...Sci Fi isn't a strong point, no matter how I try.
  • Good one. I had to look that up.

    Here's an easier one for the sci-fi geeks: Who was Woodie Smith, and by what other name was he more commonly known?


    Paul
  • he is the voice of Big Baby on Toy Story 3

    Or he is a baseball player otherwise known as Forest Elwood Smith

    Or a Kentucky man that strangled his wife
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    • Sheryl,Not the one I'm looking for, but I cheated a bit there. Perhaps if I gave his full name: Woodrow Wilson Smith.


      Paul
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  • I think I know the answer to the first one,but not 100% sure.

    As far as Paul's question, I haven't a clue. None of the answers fit in the sci-fi area in my opinion.
  • They accidentally killed themselves with a machine that gave "life" to emotions they didn't know they had, in the physical form of a monster (or something along those lines)...I think.

    Disclaimer: I had half a bottle of wine with my lunch earlier.
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    • Ah, the Krell. One of my favorite sci fi movies of all time. That was when
      Leslie Nielson was a serious actor and before Richard Anderson was turning
      Lee Majors into a cuisinart.

      The Krell, essentially, were killed by their own evil selves. Their id, or
      subconscious, popped up in the middle of the night and pretty much wiped
      up the floor with them.

      Walter Pigeon was great as Morbius and of course Anne Francis was a knockout
      as his daughter.

      My mother interviewed Earl Holliman when she had her own radio show in
      Redbank, NJ.

      For the time, Forbidden Planet had some kick ass effects.

      The final scenes with Nielson and Pigeon show what a great actor Leslie
      Nielson really was. And that he can go from THAT to Police Squad, or
      whatever that hysterical sitcom was called, is a credit to his range.

      But I digress.

      Yeah, they don't make 'em like that anymore.

      ** EDIT ** Wow...I can't believe it.

      I just looked up "Harriet Rogers WFHA" and this is what came up in
      Google.

      Rogers was my mother's stage name as an opera singer, concert pianist
      and yes, radio talk show host.

      I miss her.
  • "Monsters from the Id".

    Forbidden Planet is, in my opinion, the best si-fi movie ever made.
    The story line was shear genius!
    The acting superb.
    And, of course, "Robbie". A robot never to be exceeded.
    And, Gene Roddenberrys' inspiration for Star Trek.

    And, as Steven mentioned, after seeing that movie who would
    have thought that Leslie Nielson was, at heart, a great comedian who
    has to struggle to be serious.
  • Speaking of Star Trek....

    Why was Spock court marshaled?
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    • He was court martial'd because he violated the order not to communicate
      with the planet where Captain Pike met Vena and the Talosians. Forgive
      my spelling on all the above but I'm not in the mood to go look up a bunch
      of alien names lol.

      The Cage, the original pilot, was brilliant but what was even more brilliant
      was how the wove it into the 2 part "Managerie."

      Arguably one of the best Star Treks ever along with "City On The Edge Of
      Forever."

      For trivia buffs, Malichi Throne, who played the commodore, was also on
      episodes of Big Valley and Batman where he played false face.

      I'm starting to realize that I spent way too much time watching TV as a kid.
    • A simpler answer. He went to the butt head planet.
  • Way to be Steven!

    So, I'm sure you know who played Captain Pike?
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    • Captain Pike was played by a man whose career was pretty much killed from
      playing Jesus in King of Kings. In Combat he played a character who was
      essentially, well, you can pretty much guess.

      Sadly, Jeffrey Hunter died very young and I can't help wonder what Star
      Trek would have been like had he taken the part instead of William Shatner.

      While Shatner was the king of overacting, it was his portrayal that made
      Captain Kirk stand out and become one of the greatest TV characters of
      all time.

      As good an actor as Patrick Stewart is, Picard was no Kirk. And I won't even
      get into how inferior Janeway and Archer were.

      No, there was and will always be just one James T Kirk.

      But Jeffrey Hunter...What if?
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  • And, (although I don't recall the characters name), who played Captain Pikes' first officer, and was the computer voice in the series?
    She also had another connection with the show.
    What was it?
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    • That would be Majel Roddenberry (nee Barrett, if memory serves), Gene's wife.


      Paul
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  • You got that on the nail Paul.Beat me to it. `
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    Where did (Jedi) Yoda go into "hiding" after the fall of the republic?
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    • Banned
      Here's my question again. It's not that difficult if you're a fan.

      Cheers.
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  • Hands up if anyone makes money on IM.
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    • Banned
      (Haha) That's awesome.
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    • This would be the OT...Off Topic

      You want IM and "nothing but IM"

      Your more than welcome to travel the Main Forum.

      Do you walk around with your nose in the air too?
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  • Why was Gates McFadden (Dr Beverly Crusher) not on a single episode in season 2? Also which STNG actor attempted to copyright all of Roddenberry's unfinished work after he died?
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    • 1. The character went off to the Starfleet Medical Research Center (so something like that). The actress, I think was written out the show but Patrick Stewart campaigned to have her return.

      2. My guess would be Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (who played Deanna Troi's mother).
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  • Feh.

    Hunt was a joke, albeit one of the better ones in the annals of dramatic schlock TV. Janeway was just different. Same stock as Picard and Riker, basically. Sisko was a refreshingly different sort of captain.

    I haven't seen a lot of episodes of Enterprise, but it seems well done.


    Paul
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    • Just saw that Netflix now has every season of Next Generation available for instant viewing. I'm already midway through season 3 and having a blast watching them on the ipad Allen gave me. I'm pretty certain they have every episode of Enterprise as well. Beats watching the debt talk coverage for sure.
  • Matt,

    The only Star Trek universe series I liked enough to watch all the way through, in order, was Andromeda. I am a huge fan of well-done schlock, and few people do schlock better than Kevin Sorbo.

    Got the whole series in a boxed set. One of the more fun Christmas goofts I was ever given.


    Paul
  • OK.
    Change of subject.

    In the 1957 schlock film "Invasion Of The Saucer Men" what did the "saucer men" use to incapacitate their victims?
  • What killed the "Triffids"?
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  • In the original "The Thing" who played the Thing?
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    • James Arness.

      I guess everybody had to start at the bottom.
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  • Some mysterious device?
  • What did Patricia Neal say to the "big guy" to keep him from destroying earth?
  • Klaatu barada nicto

    And of course as Steven knows, Klaatu is a fairly obscure band from the 70s.
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    • You forgot the "Gort".

      She said "Gort, Klaatu barada nicto"
  • I stand corrected!
  • Looks like I stumped Warriors on the SNG question. :Let's tryt a different one. What is the secret of life according to Douglas Adams in "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"?
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    • Banned
      41? (or 42?)
    • Yeah, I have to admit, they didn't call it "Next Generation" for nothing.

      My nephew was a huge SNG fan.

      I'm "old school" myself.
      When I did manage to catch an episode here and there, I did like Data.
      "Wesley The Wonder-Boy" I thought was a bit of a stretch.

      Not too familiar with "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" either.
      Although, I know it was very good according fans I've talked to.
      One I should have caught.
    • 42 is the correct answer.
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  • OK.

    Another 'B' si-fi classic question.
    (Which I'm sure Steven knows :-) ).

    In "20 Million Miles To Earth" what did the alien eat?
    And, for extra credit, what was the big "fight" scene?
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    • Apparently, nobody knows, or just doesn't care.

      But, the answer is sulfur.
      And the big fight scene was between the creature and a giant elephant.
  • Here ya go Steve:
    Sister: Princess Leaha(sp?)
    Father: Anakan Skywalker aka Darth Vader
    Actress was Carrie Fisher
    Actor who voiced the line: James Earl Jones.
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    • Yeah, I THOUGHT they were too easy.

      Steve
  • Although I haven't seen the movie yet, (it just came out today), what's the flaw in "The Rise of The Planet of The Apes", as compared to how it started in the original series?

    It wasn't told in the original movie, but rather in one of the later ones.

    And, for extra credit, in the original story of The Planet Of The Apes, in book form, who was reading Taylors' journal and where did he find it?
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    • Forgive me if this is a little off.... Based on what I heard and saw, in the ORIGINAL movie series, the APES were about as intelligent as NOW, and were taken as pets and trained/used as servants. Eventually, they rebelled and one spoke the word NO! They became a race that was roughly as smart as 18th century man with FEW knowing their real history and RIDICULING any reference to it. Some evidence couldn't be easily destroyed or dismissed, so the societies were FORBIDDEN to go there.

      In the LATEST movie, the apes STARTED as they are now but were treated with an alzheimers drug that supposedly worked TOO well, and made them SUPER intelligent.

      The reader in the original novel is revealed in the end as they RIDICULE the book as being LUDICROUS! WHO could ever believe that humans wrote such a thing? They were apes. As I recall, they were in space at the time. I only read it ONCE, and that was YEARS ago. As I recall, the bulk of the book is the diary. Like die unendliche geschichte, it is revealed that you are reading what the apes are.

      Steve
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  • I'm sure Stephen W. and Kim will know this answer.

    Who was the inventor of "clay-mation"?
    And, who did the animation for 20,000,000 Miles To Earth, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Clash Of The Titans, (the original), and both "Mighty Joe Young" movies, and too many more to name here?
  • What did The Outer Limits and The Man From Uncle have in common?
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  • Steven, you beat me to it on this one.

    Steve (Seasoned) Maybe they weren't too easy,maybe I'm just too much of a geek?

    lcombs: Is the answer your looking for Ray Harryhausen (or something like that)?
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    • That would be the guy.

      And...
      If we weren't geeks, we wouldn't be in this thread.
      But, they were pretty easy. (At least for us geeks).
  • Oh yeah, about the mushrooms I forgot to mention. They figured the comming rains would DOOM their planet. They found that the rain actually saved it, Those plants didn't like water!
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  • In "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" what made Roy, (Richard Dreyfuss), decide to stop looking for the aliens?
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    • He decided hunting killer sharks with Roy Schneider would be funner.
  • As long as we are talking about the planet of the apes, how did the planet of the apes come to be in the LAST movie, prior to the one that just came out, or is coming out? What monument changed in the end, and how?

    And I could see the last event happening in several ways, what do YOU think the author was trying to convey?

    Steve
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    • I did see it.
      However, I was so thoroughly disappointed I don't remember much of it.
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  • Funner????

    Close, but no cigar.

    Hint...
    It was in a Warner Bros. cartoon.
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    • I remember the cartoon running in the background, with the martian in it, but not how it relates to him giving up. I thought it was to stop his wife nagging and to let his family see he wasn't bonkers!
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  • The planet of the apes film before the alzheimers one now that I think about it was kind of confusing. I guess the craft must have sent out a chimp, who went to the past, and somehow started a culture. He somehow conveyed enough info such that I guess the creatures could get more later. He must have then taken off to try to get back to the ship. Meanwhile, his head trainer, and kind of friend, went to search for the chimp. In the future, the ship ran into trouble and crashed in the past, sometime before the trainer had landed, but after he setout. He saw things more into the future. The chimp wasn't there yet, but ship was. The military leader of the planet was locked up in the ship. Who knows WHAT happened! The chimp met up with him, to the cheer of his supporters, since it validated all that he had said. They recognized that the chimp came back as he once somehow said he would.

    They took off, and te guy landed on a planet that looked like the earth. All sounded like the earth. The people, the radios, the police cars, all seemed the same. BUT!!!!!!!! The people were APES, and the licoln monument was APE centric and celebrated the military leader that he had so securely locked up.

    SO, the film had at least 3 paradoxes and maybe more, and the chimp understood what no human could, and somehow conveyed a LOT of info that was not very easy to do, though I guess the ship could have crashed when he did, or before, and he could have trained them all to use it. But then his friend probably would be world famous!

    Steve
  • You lost me at the barber shop???
  • lcombs,

    If you are talking about MY post, join the club. Sometimes I think they take paradoxes WAY too far. On SOME movies, like "back to the future", they generally have ONE! When #3 threatened to cause a breakdown of logic in the whole concept, he brought in the multiverse concept.(So the NEW future, that would have been their past is not the same place as their old past which was the future they hoped to go to.) So it was STILL only one paradox. But things like the planet of the apes that would require several paradoxes in the same place is just pushing it. I guess they hope you will get lost in the movie.

    BTW I heard the latest POTA movie is #1 at the box office. Supposedly, it is GREAT!

    Steve
  • What links the following characters:
    • Adam Brake (from Children of the Stones)
    • Goudry (from Dr. Who episode: The Sun Makers)
    • Doctorman Allan (from Dr. Who audio production Spare Parts)
    • Alien Strong (from Space 1999 episode The Rules of Luton)
    • Tekker (from Dr. Who episode: Timelash)
    • Computer (from Dr. Who episode: The Ark in Space)
    ... and who is missing?

    Google is permitted!
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    • Gareth Thomas was a bit of a giveaway...took a while to figure out who was missing though! It's Blake's 7 and (I think) Jan Chappell, who played Cally.
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