Great Outer Limits Episode
Peter R. Weidner
This week's episode of The Outer Limits [new series]
is called "The Voyage Home" and it stars Michael Dorn without his
Worf makeup. If you have access to it and are still trying to make
up your mind about the series, try not to miss this one. It may
well be the best episode of all those originally broadcast on
Showtime. I recently showed it to a friend of mine. His reaction
was "WOW! Are they all that good? This is almost enough to make
me sign up for Showtime."
Pete Weidner
Edinboro University of PA
Math/Comp. Sci. Dept.
e-mail: wei...@edinboro.edu
Robert Holland
I have been pleasantly surprised by the great quality of the Outer Limits
episodes on Showtime. The Twighlight Zone eps are grand, too.
I would have disconnected cable if not for this stuff (and Red Shoe Diaries,
featuring David Duchovny).
Nostromo
: >is called "The Voyage Home" and it stars Michael Dorn without his
: >Worf makeup. If you have access to it and are still trying to make
: >up your mind about the series, try not to miss this one. It may
: >well be the best episode of all those originally broadcast on
: >Showtime. I recently showed it to a friend of mine. His reaction
: >was "WOW! Are they all that good? This is almost enough to make
: >me sign up for Showtime."
I didn't know it was on cable - I've never had cable believe it or
not. I love TOL so far and the Michel Dorn episode looks good. How
long has it been on cable?
Cheryl Haaker
>
> This week's episode of The Outer Limits [new series]
>is called "The Voyage Home" and it stars Michael Dorn without his
>Worf makeup. If you have access to it and are still trying to make
>up your mind about the series, try not to miss this one.
[...]
> This is almost enough to make
>me sign up for Showtime."
Ha! _We_ get it for free on Fox! Maybe you could call and/or write
your local Fox affiliate? In Albuquerque, they carry Babylon5, Deep
Space 9 (*twice* a week, in case you missed it the first time), and
the Outer Limits, in addition to their own shows (X-Files, etc).
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Peter R. Weidner
> Quoth kh...@earthlink.net (Nostromo):
>
> : > This week's episode of The Outer Limits [new series]
> : >is called "The Voyage Home" and it stars Michael Dorn without his
> : >Worf makeup. If you have access to it and are still trying to make
> : >well be the best episode of all those originally broadcast on
> : >Showtime. I recently showed it to a friend of mine. His reaction
> : >me sign up for Showtime."
>
> not. I love TOL so far and the Michel Dorn episode looks good. How
> long has it been on cable?
Showtime last fall. They showed one episode a week for many weeks.
At first I wasn't too impressed (Valerie 23, etc.) but I liked the
opening imagery, particularly the house that sprouts mangrove-like
roots. Also, IMHO it has a dynamite theme, much better, for example,
than either of DS9 or Voyager. Toward the middle of the season I
got busy and missed a lot of episodes.
But I REALLY got hooked in the summer. The same time (July
4th weekend, I think) one of the Turner networks was having an
Outer Limits marathon of The Original Series, Showtime had a
marathon of the new series. They must have shown 15 different
episodes in about 2 days' time. I thought most of them were very
well written. Some had actors I was interested to see, like Robert
Patrick of T-2, and Michael Dorn. One episode, "I Robot", was a
remake of an episode from TOS. Interestingly, they had cast
Leonard Nimoy, who had a prominent role in the earlier episode, in
a different role (originally played by the late Howard da Silva, I
believe.) Moreover, this episode was directed by Nimoy's son Adam.
They finished up with a half dozen or so additional episodes
which lasted until the end of August. Since then, nothing. Now I
don't know whether there will be a new batch this year, or whether the
fact that it is now in syndication means it has "migrated" away from
Showtime as "The Hitchhiker" did from HBO.
Anyway, I reiterate that this week's episode ("The Voyage
Home") is my personal favorite of the whole series. Of course, your
mileage may vary. :-)
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Peter R. Weidner
Said Cheryl Haaker (haa...@technet.nm.org):
> In article <DFxE6...@freenet.carleton.ca>, bi...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
> (Peter R. Weidner) writes:
> >
> >is called "The Voyage Home" and it stars Michael Dorn without his
> >Worf makeup. If you have access to it and are still trying to make
> >up your mind about the series, try not to miss this one.
>
>
> > This is almost enough to make
> >me sign up for Showtime."
>
> your local Fox affiliate?
They're already running it. That's how I know which episode
is coming up this week. I may have misled you when I said *recently*
I showed it to a friend. Actually I guess that was in late July.
_You_ weren't getting it for free on Fox back then, I'll wager. :-)
Dan KayBee
> Nostromo (kh...@earthlink.net) wrote:
> : : > This week's episode of The Outer Limits [new series]
> : : >is called "The Voyage Home" and it stars Michael Dorn without his
> : : >Worf makeup. If you have access to it and are still trying to make
> : : >well be the best episode of all those originally broadcast on
> : : >Showtime. I recently showed it to a friend of mine. His reaction
> : : >me sign up for Showtime."
No, they aren't all that good. Extremely variable series, IMHO. The pilot
written by Melinda Snodgrass was pretty good. When she's on, Snodgrass writes
great stuff. She wrote the "Measure of a Man" episode on STTNG. No phasers,
no transporters, no going to warp -- just a trial to determine if Data is a
sentient being with the right to choose his (or its) own destiny. It's my
favorite STTNG episode.
But, I ramble.
As for the Showtime OL, some, like the Snodgrass episode and a creepy episode
by Alan Brennart (called "Dark Matters", I think) were great. Some were really
really bad. There's one about a sex-crazed female robot that, of course, get's
very nasty when her owner decides they don't really have a future together.
Hoo, boy! It was terrible. I thought the episode with Dorn was OK, but could
have been better.
>
> : I didn't know it was on cable - I've never had cable believe it or
> : not. I love TOL so far and the Michel Dorn episode looks good. How
> : long has it been on cable?
>
> Why do you need cable to see it? It's on FOX in the NY/NJ area at least.
> (Saturday at 6PM I think). I was surprised to see it though, since I thought
> it had started on Showtime.
>
Showtime purposely set them up to be shown on their cable channel first, then
rebroadcast in syndication later. They are now in the syndication run. Of
course, some of them require a bit of cutting for nudity. Not that I'm a
prude about these things, but the episode quality did seem inversely
proportional to the amount of nudity. The sex-crazed-female-robot episode is
going to have to get cut quite a bit. Too bad -- her body was the only
attractive thing about the show.
Overall, worth a look, but expect a mix of good and bad episodes
At least they didn't show the "Oswald killing Kennedy again" episode jms
mentioned a while back.
DKB
Robert A. Decker
KayBee) wrote:
> No, they aren't all that good. Extremely variable series, IMHO. The pilot
> written by Melinda Snodgrass was pretty good.
pretty good, but if you had read the original "Sand Kings" story you
probably would have been disapointed. The short story was a little cheesy,
but seemed to have more meaning than the OL episode.
Short story: Rich playboy with nothing to do in life acquires the sand
kings for his own entertainment (he doesn't seem to care too much for the
worship part, at least not after he found out what they _do_ to each
other). This guy is pretty sick.
OL: Mad scientist. Just another "Science is bad" show. Although I did like
his wonderment when he determined the sand kings "worshiped" him. I wonder
if any early anthropologists felt this way?
rob