Nyrath Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials Galaxy Quest; as pointed out before, to understand a genre, you have to see it spoofed. Star Trek: The Next Generation---episode: "The Inner Light," because the greatest adventures are made with the heart. {If you don't remember this episode, see Google's cache of it} For the space opera genre, a bang-on spoof is STAR SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS by Harry Harrison. If you've read lots of Doc Smith, you'll hurt yourself laughing. Roger "The Inner Light". It truly touches the heart, and in my opinion is one of the greatest episode of Star Trek in any of the versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials For the space opera genre' date=' a bang-on spoof is STAR SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS by Harry Harrison. If you've read lots of Doc Smith, you'll hurt yourself laughing.[/quote'] Isn't that the one with the home-built spaceship that runs off of cheese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials Isn't that the one with the home-built spaceship that runs off of cheese? Absolutely. The Cheddite projector. The author actually must have done an in-depth analysis of space opera, since it accurately lampoons all the standard troupes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials For the space opera genre' date=' a bang-on spoof is STAR SMASHERS OF THE GALAXY RANGERS by Harry Harrison. If you've read lots of Doc Smith, you'll hurt yourself laughing.[/quote'] OK, that's on the "get from the library" list. Though truth to tell, E. E. Smith makes me laugh all by himself; a spoof of EES is pretty redundant, don't you think? Roger "The Inner Light". It truly touches the heart' date=' and in my opinion is one of the greatest episode of Star Trek in any of the versions.[/quote'] Glad you agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials I've just finished reading Michael Resnik's SANTIAGO and THE RETURN OF SANTIAGO, and it's quite good. If you are trying to design an interstellar bounty hunter campaign, these books have lots of good detail. One interesting feature was a character named "Black Orpheus". He was sort of a bard who traveled the interstellar frontier. People who impressed him were given colorful nicknames and immortalized by one or more verses in the epic poem he was writing. The various verses would travel by word of mouth from tavern to tavern. So such labeled people would have instant street cred when they rolled into the starport. In a Star Hero campaign, a player would find it a rich reward to be immortalized in verse by Black Orpheus, and wear the nickname with pride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale A. Ward Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials Star Trek: The Next Generation---episode: "The Inner Light' date='" because the greatest adventures are made with the heart.[/quote'] Preach it, brother... one of the few episodes that actually brought tears to my eyes. Still does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwolf Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials Wing Commander (The novels, the games, or the saturday morning cartoon series... stay away from the movie it stank) Star Trek TOS Battlestar Galactica TOS Star Wars and I'm suprosed no one has mentioned this but .... Serenity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials One interesting feature was a character named "Black Orpheus". He was sort of a bard who traveled the interstellar frontier. People who impressed him were given colorful nicknames and immortalized by one or more verses in the epic poem he was writing. The various verses would travel by word of mouth from tavern to tavern. So such labeled people would have instant street cred when they rolled into the starport. In a Star Hero campaign, a player would find it a rich reward to be immortalized in verse by Black Orpheus, and wear the nickname with pride. Interesting idea. I never really considered doing that sort of word-of-mouth-rep in a sci-fi setting, but it gives a much different flavor from the usual "your exploits have been in the press a lot" reputation. I can almost see it evolving into a type of public/secret ID situation, where the exploits of Starslayer are legendary, but it's not widely known that Sidney Smith is Starslayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials Interesting idea. I never really considered doing that sort of word-of-mouth-rep in a sci-fi setting' date=' but it gives a much different flavor from the usual "your exploits have been in the press a lot" reputation. I can almost see it evolving into a type of public/secret ID situation, where the exploits of [i']Starslayer [/i]are legendary, but it's not widely known that Sidney Smith is Starslayer. You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to bigdamnhero again. "Brilliant" QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials The Ballad of Jayne from "Jaynestown" Jayne..... The man they call Jayne... He robbed from the rich And he gave to the poor Stood up to the man And he gave him what for Our love for him now Ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton The man they call Jayne... Our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin' He saw the mudders' laments And he saw the magistrate takin' Every dollar and leavin' five cents So he said "You can't do that to my people" He said "Can't crush them under your heel" Jayne strapped on his hat And in 5 seconds flat Stole everything Boss Higgins had to steal... He robbed from the rich And he gave to the poor Stood up to the man And he gave him what for Our love for him now Ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton The man they call Jayne... Now here is what separates heroes From common folk like you and I The man they call Jayne He turned 'round his plane And let that money hit the skies He dropped it onto our houses He dropped it into our yards The man they called Jayne He stole away our pain And headed out for the stars... He robbed from the rich And he gave to the poor Stood up to the man And he gave him what for Our love for him now Ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton The man they call Jayne.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials Interesting idea. I never really considered doing that sort of word-of-mouth-rep in a sci-fi setting' date=' but it gives a much different flavor from the usual "your exploits have been in the press a lot" reputation. I can almost see it evolving into a type of public/secret ID situation, where the exploits of [i']Starslayer [/i]are legendary, but it's not widely known that Sidney Smith is Starslayer. Again you must spread some rep around before giving it to BigDamnHero again. Agreed, utterly brilliant. I hadn't thought of it that way, but you are absolutely correct. Black Orpheus' poems never mentioned real names, just nicknames. The novel had a couple of scenes like that, an "I know you, you're the 'Songbird' from the poem, aren't you?" scene, and a "You know 'Waltzing Matilda' from the poem? That's me..." scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt JT Kohonez Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials I am so glad you ascended before I read that. Barbarella has a certain camp value, in this case I would save it for the victory or consolidation party after the RPG contest, not as part of the prep. Ice Pirates had nothing but a couple of halfway amusing robots. Come on man, everybody loved the Space Herpe!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt JT Kohonez Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials The Ballad of Jayne from "Jaynestown" Jayne..... The man they call Jayne... He robbed from the rich And he gave to the poor Stood up to the man And he gave him what for Our love for him now Ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton The man they call Jayne... Our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin' He saw the mudders' laments And he saw the magistrate takin' Every dollar and leavin' five cents So he said "You can't do that to my people" He said "Can't crush them under your heel" Jayne strapped on his hat And in 5 seconds flat Stole everything Boss Higgins had to steal... He robbed from the rich And he gave to the poor Stood up to the man And he gave him what for Our love for him now Ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton The man they call Jayne... Now here is what separates heroes From common folk like you and I The man they call Jayne He turned 'round his plane And let that money hit the skies He dropped it onto our houses He dropped it into our yards The man they called Jayne He stole away our pain And headed out for the stars... He robbed from the rich And he gave to the poor Stood up to the man And he gave him what for Our love for him now Ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton The man they call Jayne.. Snif snif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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