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VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA-TERROR ON DINOSAUR ISLAND

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 VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA-TERROR ON DINOSAUR ISLAND  TERROR ON DINOSAUR ISLAND Writer-William Welch Dir-Leonard Horn   Teaser Benson, a crewman on Seaview, is what Kowalski calls a gold bricker. He asks him or Patterson to switch duty watches with him--a duty that Bishop has put him on (Bishop is the name of an officer from Season One). Pat goes to sonar watch. Ski suggest Benson ask his buddy Grady, "He's your pal."   Benson muses that Ski is right--he can talk that kid into anything. Sharkey and Nelson are in the Flying Sub (NOTE: the backdrop of the interior of the Flying Sub looks a bit odd--as if it were wooden, not well lit, and perhaps not the entire Flying Sub set-up). An island seems to rise out of the water at them. They believe they are witnessing the birth of an island. Chip gives lee a pressure report and Lee warns the Flying Sub--but it is too late. The Flying Sub heads for the crater which is blowing up! Nelson tells Sharkey to grab hi...
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STARFLEET ACADEMY s1e5: Series Acclimation Mil

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  I am  not sure even I can defend this episode. Where is the action, adventure, fight scenes, chases, wild encounters with alien beings, space travel, heck at this rate I would even accept time travel, real space battles and not fake ones, romances, and sufficient science fiction? This was ANOTHER character study. AND with by my count at least five more characters they can do this with or more, are we going to get nothing but character studies and no action adventure sci fi space travel exploration alien encounters and such? It wasn't bad but it wasn't very good either and while I feel Karim did great acting last week, what's happening this week? He was so bad and what is with his voice? And I'm so sorry, the skirt? No, no, and no. It looked ridiculous. Sam? I'm guessing she has a totally different background than the Doctor? I thought holograms were made by humans? Alien entities made this one and somehow got her into Starfleet? And it seems as if that's no se...
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STARFLEET ACADEMY-VOX IN EXCELSO (s1e4)

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  STARFLEET ACADEMY-VOX IN EXCELSO  (spoilers)   Wow! I’d have to watch this one again and I’m sure there will be those who pick this apart, especially the battle at the end but the battle is NOT the point of this character study and a damned great one, too. I would give this an 11/10. Okay I'll deduct two points for the battle at the end: how DO you trick Klingons into thinking they're in a battle, have won, and no one died?   The hateful worst of the right will probably hate this soft Klingon and the acceptance of his father as well as the friendships between the three major male cadets and the relationship between Jay Den and the Jem Hadar/Klingon officer. They will also hate the way Jay Den’s brother just fully accepted him and hate the way Jay Den argues that Starfleet cannot change the Klingons but meet them on their own terms. I get it from them, I really do: they hate change, they hate acceptance, they hate. Not all the right. And not all the right ar...
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Wally Helvey's DARK SHADOWS CONTINUES fan fiction

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 A fan of DARK SHADOWS, Wally Helvey has created a DARK SHADOWS CONTINUES fan fiction, written in the style of the fanzines that Kathleen Resch used to produce, synopsis style. This series thus far has taken the show from the cancellation episode, that being 1245 through to an ending of sorts (though it may continue past that once Wally returns to that episode) starting at episode 1246 and going to 1510 (for now, it may go past that). Wally posts new and updated episodes roughly every Friday on the DARK SHADOWS APPRECIATION FB group. Highly recommended for DS fans and horror fans. Other continuations include a Dale Clark series of fan novels that have yet been finished (with Dale showing NO signs of ever taking them up again to complete the rest of the series) and my own which is a "What If DS Were Never Cancelled and Exists in 2026 to this Day?" project. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659238900971971
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DARK SHADOWS 583

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  DARK SHADOWS  583 “Willie! If you touch that body, I will kill you!”   “I do know that Barnabas wouldn’t do anything to harm me.”   Vicki. The sleeping house seems to be at peace. The circular machine does not look as violet. Different reprise. Willie grabs the sheet. Barnabas stops him, “If you touch that body, I will kill   you.”    Pause, credits.     He also says CollinSwood. Willie talks to Barnabas about Maggie. Willie tells him to use Julia, use Vicki. He asks what Maggie ever did to him. Barnabas tells him she is the most available. He reminds Willie that Willie helped him to try to convert Maggie into Josette before he fancied himself in love with her.     Willie worries some more and tells Barnabas he’ll get another girl for him. Barnabas counters, “You trust Julia, you trust me.”   Willie will promise not to interfere with the experiment if Barnabas promises not to use Maggie. Barnabas will no...
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STARFLEET ACADEMY-BETA TEST and VITRUS REFLUX (s1: eps 2 and 3)

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  STARFLEET ACADEMY-BETA TEST and VITRUS REFLUX (s1: eps 2 and 3)   The nay sayers are all wrong. I mean all wrong. The right are trying hard to find reasons to hate this show from the start. They fail to see that this show is set in a school, a college so the college age people that they complained about from even before the show started were always going to be…college age people. Surviving teenagers from a tough time after “the Burn.”   For any sci fi show, that’s a wonderful premise. For TREK, it’s revolutionary. TREK, for far too long, has been set in a universe of comfort and ease and even when it wasn’t, there was always a DEEP SLEEP MINE station to return to or a return to Earth or a boring earth type planet as in NEXT GENERATION, both of those shows “fans” and the right like to pretend were great shows. BOTH were not. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that STARFLEET ACADEMY is superior to both of those shows and hit the ground running, which DEEP SLEEP and NEXT...
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