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Subj : Re: Serenity: good film !
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From : whodunit
Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 17:34:28

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

Richard Alger wrote:
> I saw a  couple episodes of Firefly, and didn't much care for it. First
> there was the whole "Space Western" theme. I never much liked westerns,
> and putting them in outer space doesn't make them any more appealing to
> me. I also seem to remember that there were no aliens in the show. Alien
> are cool. Aliens are fun. Aliens can even be hot and sexy. A space
> adventure without aliens is like...well, you can fill in the blank. I
> also recall ( correct me if I'm wrong ) that the story is supposed to
> take place in a solar system that has hundreds of inhabited planets.
> Pardon my French, but bullshit! What kind of freaked out orbital
> mechanics would have to be at work for hundreds of Earth sized planets
> to all fit into the habitable zone of a solar system? Now, I don't claim
> that Star Trek was the most rigidly scientific show of all time, but at
> least they didn't make that kind of silly mistake. They had other kinds
> of silly mistakes to make. But, Firefly had the accuracy to have the
> space scenes without sound effects. Is that also true in the movie?
> 
> Rick Alger
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Not hundreds of planets='dozens of planets, with hundreds of moons'
that were terraformed to be earth-like.

And true, there's no aliens. But they got prostitutes.

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