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Total number of fandoms I like: I don't have that many fingers.

My first fandom ever: The Questor Tapes.

My most recent fandom: House, I suppose, with Lost coming from the outside.

Five fandoms that mean a lot to me: Questor, Monty Python, Noir, X-Men, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased). Star Trek should be on that list, but isn't.

Tag five people: susanmgarrett, cybertardis, gkkstitch, cocoajava, nitasee.

Comments

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Questor Tapes! I thought I was the only one! (and I don't even have a copy of the movie. :-()

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Heck, a lot of early Trekkies loved Questor Tapes. Peter David wrote Questor fanfic before he went pro.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

The Devil's War!

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Gah. There's still a copy of that buried somewhere in the house.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I was an early Trekkie™ but most of my other Trekpals didn't know or didn't care. I wouldn't know about Peter David but then again, I try to avoid anything/everything he's done. (No offense meant towards PD fans. I just can't stand him.)

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Well, there was this phase when some fans were going absolutely bonkers for anything Roddenberry did (we were young, it was the seventies, what did we know?) so Questor was like gosh!wow! (as was *shudder* Genesis II) and of course there were zines. (PD was just another fanboy. I've read very little of his pro stuff.)

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was like that too, being the Teenage Trekkie™ that I was at the time. Luckily I got better. Yes, Genesis II (and whatever the follow up was)...eeeeeek!

I've read some PD pro-stuff and honestly don't understand why people think he's the greatest writer ever. He's also a semi-local sort so he shows up at local cons and he just grates on me but that's just me.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think his original stuff sucks. His Trek novels are, considering Paramount and Pocket's commitment to dullness, surprisingly readable. Even when they're stupid.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

He has all the grace and style of the proverbial lead balloon, as a writer, but he can do interesting plots, at least in Trek. I can't get into his original stuff.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

i DIDN'T THINK qUESTOR tAPES EVER PLAYED *ANYWHERE*. i KNOW *i'VE* NEVER SEEN IT, OR HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IT, OR EVER HEARD ABOUT IT BEING AIRED OR AVAILABLE OR ANYTHING. info??

wELL, FUCK. SORRY -- FORGOT TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK AND TOO WIPED TO REDO THIS. APOLOGIES. I don't mean to be shouting at everyone.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Sci-Fi and Disney Channel have both shown it in the last decade or so. The only legal copies I've heard of are the Region 2 VHS release.

For the rest of us...the DVD grey market. Expect to pay about 20 bucks for it, and don't expect better than VHS picture quality. :)

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the 411!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You can also get DC Fontana's novelization with relative ease. It's very good -- combines the best stuff from different drafts of the script and the aired version.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I saw it when it first aired on tv back in the 70s...got a big old wonking crush on Robert Foxworth and was highly amused to see Roddenberry revamp some of the dialogue/situations for Data in TNG.

I know it shows up on cable from time to time but it's been years since I've seen it.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Ah! There you go -- I've never had cable or satellite TV. No wonder I've never caught it.

I do remember hearing that there were Questor-like aspects to Data.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

It first aired on network television back in the 70s, I think it was NBC.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Part of the Wednesday night movie wheel.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness. See, I didn't remember that!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I missed it. I may not have known it was Roddenberry's, or it could have been opposite something my parents wanted to watch. I don't remember being aware of it back then, although at some point I remember watching some pretty dreadful supernatural pilot of his with Majel in it.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Spectre, with Robert Culp and Gig Young.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Yes! That was the one. I remembered nothing about it but Majel Barrett, so apparently Robert Culp didn't make a huge impression there. *g*

Just finished the 2nd season of GAH the other day, though. Want 3rd season Right Now.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Majel's in the first five minutes (and the last five, I think), and her character's off-putting presence could easily cause someone to flick it off. If you stick with it, though, you get John Hurt (or is it John Herd? The one from 1984 and the Harry Potter movies) and Gordon Jackson.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*kofeBaykof*

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

*grovels at your feet* I'll keep an eye out for it!