Re-Living My Childhood

During my childhood I was a big fan of the original Battlestar Galactica.  So much so that I ended up building my own Viper Fighter, which were the small ships those humans fleeing from the Cylon tyranny used to defend themselves.

The above is a picture of me circa 1979 wearing a helmet made from a plastic ice cream bucket and masking tape sitting in the pilots seat ready to be shot out of Galactica's launch tubes.

What if that pretend ship of mine had never been dismantled but instead was sitting in a garage someplace?  And, what if, as an adult I were to get back in it, then through some sort of magic, the Viper turned real and I was able to fly off into space to fight along Starbuck and Apolo?      

Well, that's the premise I hope to explore in the next blog story I'm going to write.  Maybe from there the fictitious version of me could land on the moon and serve alongside the characters from Space: 1999 then board the Starship Enterprise. Obviously exact names would change to avoid copyright infringement.

But first, this one needs to be finished http://ablogaboutstuff.com.

Doctor Who Quotes

I only recently started watching the Doctor Who series.  My journey began with Christopher Eccleston's reign as the time lord in 2005 and has continued to the most recent portrayal of the doctor by Matt Smith.

You see, being unemployed and having Netflix streaming has afforded me the opportunity to catch up rather quickly.

At any rate, the show is very good at providing memorable quotes so here are a few of my favorites.

Series one episode "Dalek."


(The Doctor finds a Cyberman head)


The Doctor: "Oh, look at you!"
Rose: "What is it?"
The Doctor: "An old friend of mine. Well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting 
old."


Series six episode "The Impossible Astronaut."
(River, Amy and Rory talking about the Doctor's death under the Tardis's control room while the Doctor is there alone.)


Doctor: "I'm being extremely clever up here and there's no one to stand around looking impressed, what's the point in having you all??"


2009 holiday special "Waters of Mars."

(Holding a gun pointing at The Doctor)

"State your name, rank and intention."
"The Doctor: The Doctor. Doctor. Fun."
Tarak: "What the hell? It's a man. A man on mars. How?"
Steff: "He was wearing this thing. I have never seen anything like this."
Tarak: "What did mission control say?"
Steffi: "We're out of range for 10 hours, with the solar flares."
Brooke: "You could cut the chat everyone."
The Doctor: "Actually chat is second on my list. The first being gun pointed at my head. Which puts my head second and the chat third. Gun-Head-Chat, yeh, I hate lists. But you could hurt someone with this thing, just put it down."

Series three episode "Blink."


The Doctor: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff."


Series one episode "End Of The World."


Doctor: "Tell you what. With a bit of jiggery pokery..."
Rose: "Is that a technical term, "jiggery pokery"?"
Doctor: "Yeah, I got a first in jiggery pokery, what about you?"
Rose: "Nah, I failed hullabaloo."

Sacrificed SciFi Shows

Have you ever had a TV show that you really, really liked but then all of a sudden, out of the blue the network cancels it?

Well, that's happened to me time and time again!  And you know why?  Because I'm a science fiction fan and for some reason it's not a very popular genre.

Anyway, this blog is all about some of my favorite shows that have ended way too early.

Here's the top 3.  Feel free to add your own in the comment section below.

Space: Above And Beyond - 1995, 96

A show set in the years 2063–2064 which focused on a group of United States Marine Corps Space Aviators. The "Wildcards" which they were known as, are based on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots to fight a race of aliens known as "Chigs."  It was very character-driven with numerous sub-plots which made the series deep and compelling.  I feel like there was so much more they could've done with the story lines.

Defying Gravity - 2009

A space travel series set in the year 2052 which follows eight astronauts on a six-year mission through the Solar System while their lives are being constantly recorded and broadcast back to Earth as part of an ongoing documentary. In spite of a libido-suppressing device worn by each crew member, romantic entanglements develop. Further complicating their lives is a mysterious storage pod which contains something referred to as Beta.

I knew this show was doomed from the start, pretty much because it was being aired on one of the major networks.  Let's see, has that ever worked?  Nope!  They actually released the complete first season/series on DVD with the rest of the un-aired episodes but I've been unable to watch them knowing that there could've been so much more!

Journeyman - 2007



This is kind of the odd man out on my list because it doesn't take place in space.

The plot centers around Dan Vasser, a San Francisco reporter who involuntarily travels through time.  He soon learns that each series of jumps follows the life of a person whose destiny he seems meant to change. Dan's jumping affects his family life and his job, and instills suspicion in his brother Jack, a police detective. While in the past, Dan reconnects with his ex-fiancée, Livia, whom he had believed was killed in a plane crash but is actually a time traveler like him.

It really reminded me of shows like Quantum Leap and Sliders, which wasn't a time travel but an alternate Earth travel program.  I'm a sucker for a series that shows what could've been or other possibilities and was really looking forward to seeing more of Dan's travels but that was not too be.

Like I said at the top, if you have suggestions for SciFi shows that ended too early, leave them in the comment section below.

Thanks for reading!