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    Fiction Friction: Beloved Characters That Nearly Weren't

    In early drafts of Star Wars, Princess Leia had two brothers, called Biggs and Windy. Just imagine that we’ve missed a series of novels about Windy Organa.
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    Fiction Friction: Beloved Characters That Nearly Weren't

    Discworld does have several examples of promoted background characters. There’s Ponder Stibbons, who was introduced in Moving Pictures for the sake of a short scene where he takes an exam intended for his roommate Victor (who made a career out of not passing exams). But my favorite is the...
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    Alternate Namesakes

    Top of the Pops did a good one when Dexy’s Midnight Runners performed their song “Jackie Wilson Said” in front of a picture of Jocky Wilson
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    Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Early Star Wars.

    The Journal of the Whills might have vanished from the film, but it did survive long enough to appear on the title page of the original novelization of the movie. So well before most of the Extended Universe. The idea of hyperdrive not working in a gravity well had already appeared in written...
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    Non-Trek SF Worldbuilding: Red Dwarf

    Reference to the DS9 production designer, Herman Zimmerman.
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    Non-Trek SF Worldbuilding: Red Dwarf

    The DS9 production team did sneak in a couple of references to Red Dwarf. The Promenade Directory lists offices for both Diva Droid Corporation and Jupiter Mining Corporation.
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    Alternate Quotes

    “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!” — The Troll, after being kicked off the bridge “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” — Richard III, surprising everyone with his announcement of who his successor would be “That's not a knife… THAT's a...
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    60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 10. Rose Tyler, the Dimension Cannon

    Not so far.
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    Non-Trek Worldbuilding 2: Galaxy Quest.

    There’s also some TNG references in the movie beyond Laredo/Wesley. Gwen makes a comment about how in interviews she always gets questions about the engineering of her bra, which is something that Marina Sirtis also complained about. Then there’s Alexander Dane. Dr Lazarus is the Spock...
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    Not Trek Worldbuilding: Andromeda

    Asimov wrote a vignette where the qualification was detonating a thermonuclear device. Mind you, the Federation had never encountered a species that was so stupid as to set one off on the surface of their own planet.
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    Not Trek Worldbuilding: Andromeda

    The Tomorrow People (or at least the Seventies version) also included several Star Trek features. Most notably, a Galactic Federation that had a strict no contact policy with worlds whose species had not yet developed telepathy. And, while their ability to jaunt made it unnecessary, the TPs...
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    Poll: A more varied likes system

    Now should I like a post when the writer says they don’t like Likes?
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    Phone version of site

    You mean the invisible one that lets you edit your account? That’s still there for me. Edit: though I think it’s positioned slightly higher than it used to be
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    60 Years of Dr Who. Part 7: The Seventh Doctor

    It’s quite good, but there are some lines that were written with Tom Baker’s Doctor in mind, and don’t sound quite right spoken by McGann As any pedant will tell you, the previous time Sarah Jane met the Doctor was the Peter Davison’s incarnation in The Five Doctors. So Tennant’s incarnation...
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    Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 6. War. Huh. What is it named for?

    That’s the one that really annoyed David Mitchell
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    Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 5: Fly Me to the Moon

    Watching QI is a good example of the impermanence of astronomical knowledge, with the recurring question “How many moons does the Earth have?” Depending upon which series you’re watching, the answer is 2, 5, 18000, or zero. OK, the last answer is an argument that the Earth/Moon system is a...
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    60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 5: The Fifth Doctor

    The idea of having a single Dalek in control in the background is reminiscent of the role that Davros played in Revelation of the Daleks. Maybe Saward was influenced by that idea. I wasn’t outraged, but it did feel a bit off for Tristan Farnon to become the Doctor. It wasn’t the only thing...
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    60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 4: The Fourth Doctor

    I did like this version of the story - a different alien species leading to a plot more reminiscent of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And yes, the space walking scenes would have been tricky to pull off convincingly with the typical Doctor Who budget. I thought that there was something a...
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    Alternate Quotes

    Bob Geldof: “I like the bit about Gloria being sick in the back of a Transit, but I don’t like Mundis.”
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    Alternate Quotes

    “Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders.” Martin Luther on the crowded 07:32 train service from Woking to Waterloo. “Houston. We have a problem.” Final message sent by Davy Crockett before the Battle of the Alamo
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