Space 1999 Intro

This show that aired in the 70's was about scientists living on the moon and sent drifting through space after the moon was ripped out of Earth's orbit.
Trivia Fact: The stars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are the parents of Juliet Landau who played the Vampire Drucilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer television show. Juliet also voices the character of Tala the sorceress on the Justice League Unlimited cartoon.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Space
• 1999
• 70's
• Nostalgia

[altha2008]

If it was not for the sorry space shuttle program we will be there by now

[gunterdak]

The real 1999 wasn't like this at all! Hardly anyone was in space. Disappointing!

[aculturemind]

@Isurtum

I use language in a descriptive sense - where it, at least, implicates the *quality* (original, neutral connotation of the word) of a thing. This makes for a neutral, non-preference-based frame of reference, and communication. Kind of like science.

[Isurtum]

@aculturemind Maybe for you "Space 1999" is no science fiction. But I'm not sure if you would find many followers in this opinion. Someone might call it scrap - but nonetheless it's science fiction. That's what I say the whole time: "science fiction" is only a label for the genre - not a statement about the quality of itself or its individual parts or works which belong to it.

[Guinhoete]

ja era dificil, agora com o SOPA PIPA E ACTA ficou impossivel rever o melhor de nossa infancia, obrigado buracratas mesquinhos e gananciosos, voces merecem arderem no inferno

[aculturemind]

@Isurtum

"But in the end all of this is called "science fiction" "

Sez you. An I say differnt.

While I enjoy Culture, I could emotionally do without it. Could you?

[Isurtum]

@aculturemind Even writers of SF are all too often snobs and make this ridiculous difference between "sci-fi" and "SF". I do not deny that there are many mature works of science fiction which earn their high reputation - and on the other side a lot of poor pulp stuff. But in the end all of this is called "science fiction", and for good reasons.

Many critics who don't like the genre might have used the term pejoratively. But these deriders didn't create the term. Nor does their scorn matter.

[aculturemind]

@Isurtum

No no. Even writers of SF have been distingushing between sci-fi and science fiction for decades. SF is just the mature form of the latter.

As for the term 'science fiction', I strongly remember reading something by Asimov, who was relating the story of how it came about, and that it was pejoratively by a literary critic.

Which, given the conclusion of the paragraph above, isn't seriously relevant.

The cosmos is heirarchy incarnate. This doesn't bother me.

[Isurtum]

@aculturemind At least I think that I'll clarify my own statement. I didn't say that SF "is about terminology", but that there is a ridiculous attitude among aficionados towards the terminology and the abbreviation "SF" versus "Sci-fi". It's the same earnestness which the so-called "Trekkers" rebel against the alleged diminutive "Trekkies".

[Isurtum]

@aculturemind Interesting find. But William Wilson's usage of the term was then isolated and wasn't the starting point for the professional and popular usage of "science fiction" as label for the genre. That was clearly Hugo Gernsback's "Astounding" in the late 1920ths (for this compare the French Wikipedia about "Science-fiction" which already remarks William Wilson).

[MyceliaProductions42]

Well...disco did make a sort-of comeback in the late 90s, so this looks accurate. X-D

[MyceliaProductions42]

@aculturemind Awesome find!