Kevin Scrivner Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 Oops, forgot the poll! They're both ruthless, space-faring cyborg races who have successfully destroyed a humanoid civilization. Both display an odd combination of treachery, cunning, arrogance, and stupidity. Both want to put mankind on the Endangered Species List, although the Daleks have been known to keep human slaves and convert some of them to robomen soldiers. Despite their mechanical vulnerabilities, both races have managed to establish themselves on a wide variety of planetary types because of their sophisticated technology. So the two conquest-crazed robotic civilizations meet and decide they are in each other's way. What happens next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 Daleks are winning but then the Cylons start building all their fortresses full of stairs and the Dalek victory is thwarted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 IIRC the Daleks lasted for thousands of years. How long did the Cylons last? Nuff said. -AA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 It's been done, sort of. The Daleks had a war with the Movellans, a bunch of anthropomorphic robots. The war went for a thousand years or so, with the two sides deadlocked. Their strategy computers kept predicting and countering each others' actions. Eventually the Daleks tried to recover Davros so he could tell them what to do, but the Doctor interfered. I suppose the Cylons could get Baltar to tell them what to do, depending on your view of the rumours of his death. He's not as smart as Davros, but he would probably be better at treachery. Davros has a lot of the Dalek's own weaknesses. Even so, I suspect the result would continue to be deadlock... Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherSkip Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Daleks can hover over stairs. They simply alter their thrust values. Simply put they will make the Cylons their slaves..... besides they don't have annoying mono scanner things like Cylons, and in general have more memorable speech patterns. (look I have a sensor like KITT!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by AnotherSkip besides they don't have annoying mono scanner things like Cylons, and in general have more memorable speech patterns. (look I have a sensor like KITT!!!) Hmm "By your command" vs. "Exterminate!" And I could swear that KITT came after Battlestar Galactica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 The worst shots in any Universe vs. world conquerers who can be stopped by stairs. Any third party in this, no matter how lame, will kick so much @$$! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farik Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by lemming And I could swear that KITT came after Battlestar Galactica. It did, in the super secret pilot episode of KNight Rider (actually a never aired Battlestar Galactica 1980 episode) we discover KARR was constructed from the wreckage of the Cylon Wolfman Jack saw destroyed on Halloween night. Honest:D Okay not really:p Besides Daleks could navigate stairs they just didn't show the effect very often because it was pricey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 What the hell is a Dalek? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farik Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Scoff Scoff Daleks were a Dr Who Villain race they were a genetically engineered brain in a "high tech" armored body that resembled a really big overturned wastebasket with an RD-D2 like dome for a head. It had a single arm which resembled a plunger but it was really a disintegration ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by farik Scoff Scoff Daleks were a Dr Who Villain race they were a genetically engineered brain in a "high tech" armored body that resembled a really big overturned wastebasket with an RD-D2 like dome for a head. It had a single arm which resembled a plunger but it was really a disintegration ray. Hehe. Well, ok. Having never seen a Dr Who episode Ill have to take your word for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by Killer Shrike Hehe. Well, ok. Having never seen a Dr Who episode Ill have to take your word for it. What farik said, except I always thought they looked more like fire hydrants than trash cans. Here's some pictures. http://images.google.com/images?q=dalek&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oberon Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by Killer Shrike Hehe. Well, ok. Having never seen a Dr Who episode Ill have to take your word for it. *Gasp* Ah well, no one else is perfect Got to say, I'm really enjoying being a Dr Who fan here in Australia at the moment. Been screening every episode they could get their hands on, starting from Ep 1, and they intend to go through, in order, to the end of the Sylvester McCoy run. Ah, I get to see all those episodes I never saw the first time around (too young for the William Hartnell and most of the Patrick Troughton eps) oberon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Thats got to be the dumbest sfx ive ever seen. Buget challenged were they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by Killer Shrike Thats got to be the dumbest sfx ive ever seen. Buget challenged were they? Very. The time machine (TARDIS) was a phone booth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cadet Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by farik Scoff Scoff Daleks were a Dr Who Villain race they were a genetically engineered brain in a "high tech" armored body that resembled a really big overturned wastebasket with an RD-D2 like dome for a head. It had a single arm which resembled a plunger but it was really a disintegration ray. Funny... I always thought that they looked a bit like oversized salt-and-pepper shakers... oh, well Space Cadet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by McCoy Very. The time machine (TARDIS) was a phone booth. Oh. So Bill & Ted were like Dr Who for the 80's then. "Whoa." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by farik Daleks were a Dr Who Villain race they were a genetically engineered brain in a "high tech" armored body that resembled a really big overturned wastebasket with an RD-D2 like dome for a head. It had a single arm which resembled a plunger but it was really a disintegration ray. The manipulator arm and the gun were two different limbs next to each other. Except for the Special Weapons Dalek in "Remembrance of the Daleks", which just had a single massive cannon in the center of its more heavily armored shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by austenandrews IIRC the Daleks lasted for thousands of years. How long did the Cylons last? Nuff said. -AA Well according to the original BG pilot millenia. So that one goes to the Cylons, or its a tie. Cylons win. They have cool looking ships. They have guns. They can walk up stairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by Killer Shrike Thats got to be the dumbest sfx ive ever seen. Buget challenged were they? You are an enemy of the Daleks. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate! Dude. It was 1963. TV in the UK was about a decade old. They were making it up as they went along. And, incidentally, lot of the early episodes sucked pretty hugely. On the other hand, there was a reason my local pub had it on TV last night: too many of their patrons leave and then come back around the time it comes on... Most suspicious... (For Oberon: "my local pub" = the Irish Club. It's as near as any other and they pour Guinness correctly.) Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by assault You are an enemy of the Daleks. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate! Dude. It was 1963. TV in the UK was about a decade old. They were making it up as they went along. Alan Ive heard that BBC really stands for "Better Buy Cable", but having never seen the BBC myself, I guess I lack a proper frame of reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Originally posted by Killer Shrike Ive heard that BBC really stands for "Better Buy Cable", but having never seen the BBC myself, I guess I lack a proper frame of reference. Well, I've been to both the UK and the US, and, let's say, if banality wasn't invented by the US TV industry, it was imported very early on. Seriously, Australian TV tends to feature US and UK shows, as well as local product (and various odds and ends from other countries). Generally, the US shows are "dumber" than those from other places. Not bad, just not intelligent. It's like they're made for Texans. Of course, one of my favourite programs is an Austrian cop show whose star is a German Shepherd, so what do I know? (Kommissar Rex, if anyone cares.) What can I say? And I get up at 4am on Tuesday mornings to what the Justice League cartoon... Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Originally posted by assault Seriously, Australian TV tends to feature US and UK shows, as well as local product (and various odds and ends from other countries). Generally, the US shows are "dumber" than those from other places. I wont disagree with you there in general. Thats one of the reasons Ive never been a big TV watcher. Originally posted by assault Not bad, just not intelligent. It's like they're made for Texans. Nice one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost who Walks Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Originally posted by farik It did, in the super secret pilot episode of KNight Rider (actually a never aired Battlestar Galactica 1980 episode) we discover KARR was constructed from the wreckage of the Cylon Wolfman Jack saw destroyed on Halloween night. Damn. I am probably the only who got that one. I feel so alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Originally posted by Ghost who Walks Damn. I am probably the only who got that one. I feel so alone. If only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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