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all vaccines WORK against delta variant, because they keep you out of the ER.  yes you can still get it and be sick despite vaccination, oh well, same as any other cold or flu virus.  however, what the experts feel is that vaccinated people are likely being infected from their family members or coworkers, who they spend a lot of time around, that are vaccinated as well.  the source on all of them though are unvaccinated spreaders.  however, vaxxed people almost certainly will not be super spreaders.  they are not causing scores of children to be infected and hospitalized in the South right now, it's the unvaccinated. 

as for masks, honestly anything but an N95 equivalent mask is not going to give you much protection.  the surgical ones, cloth ones, whatever, maybe 15-30 minutes, good enough for quick trips inside a store or whatever.  they don't help much otherwise.

https://twitter.com/trekcore/status/1424407812617211905

JOC asked about the reboot talks.  Evidently he saw the same Torme interview we all did, ha ha.

@pilight

The reliance on heavy emotions is for better or worse, simply a result of the streaming phenomenon.  It's what every show does now just about.

The Facebook group is really divorced from reality in that regard.  I keep telling them, Torme has never SEEN anything past mid-Season 3, so he's surely not going to write closure to them.  That was Bill Dial's dumb idea to end on a cliffhanger. 

Well even if Torme got some type of go ahead, as I said, you don't just sign actors and go to work the next day.  Especially with the pandemic, so many productions have been delayed, they may not get to shoot for another year or longer from now.  O'Connell could be available at that point.

Well at least he'll be free to do the Sliders reboot, lol.

That's his point, he would like to be able to satire anybody he feels works for the story, but will be shot down.  However, Tracy's comments, which were unfortunately cut off, seemed to be more along the lines of they don't even want to broach subjects now.  That I feel is a problem, forget about your take on it, we don't even want to write a story that deals with this current topic or that.

Actually they talk Sliders a bit around 42 mins in for like 7 mins.  The host Cardinal Sin was ROUGH.  Interrupting Tracy mid-thought over and over.  Tracy lamented that he gave up on various projects too quickly when rejected, and moved on, and felt he should have fought harder to get some of them off the ground. 

The main host is clearly displeased with DSC/PIC "ideology" but Tracy said he was going to write a script for Picard, which would have been a new Dixon Hill story.  He said he conceived a love story between Picard and a young black woman, but that he realized it wouldn't work.  Jonathan Frakes reminded Tracy that Patrick Stewart was now in his 80's, and a romance with a 30-year old wouldn't quite work!  Torme also says that industry people warned him to stay away from Picard, whatever that means.  I have to assume he may have been speaking of season 2 pre-production. 

Says he's still amazed by Sliders fans, and their continued support, loves hearing from them still.  Then went into Peckinpah, repeating his "too cerebral" infamous comment, that Fox made.  Says he left the show after writing his favorite episode, The Guardian, and being told by Peck, "That's exactly the kind of show we're not going to be doing anymore."  Gabbed about Marc Scott Zicree, asked them for his contact info, always liked him. 

Also has some cool Patrick McGoohan/Jonathan Harris/Bob Dylan stories.

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Talks to Cleavant all the time, can't imagine it without Jerry, and talked to JRD about it.  Imagines original cast with new ones.  Said this is being actively worked on.  Said everyone is hyper reactive on politics, and feels it's much worse now.  Threw ideas out, people told him NO you can't do that!  Struggle is not to be PC and safe.  He was literally about to mention Peacock network and his connection dropped, and of course these awful hosts didn't bother asking him again.  Almost sounded like they spoke to them but there was some reason they won't be a likely pairing, but again, who knows?

Torme's involvement on the comics doesn't really solve the puzzle though, as to how various ideas coincidentally found their way into late S3 scripts, perhaps rewritten after JRD left?

The last few seasons of Agents of SHIELD were heavy into the multiverse and time travel, it was a great series.

I never considered that, and you're speaking of the episode Genesis.  It's quite possible though.

I missed this all entirely, ha ha.  Maybe Tracy canceled on the guy, but geez, should at least let people know.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environ … s-n1272938

Completely insane Bitcoin mining.

Ha ha, look I'm not trivializing what she's done; however, when one is in a runaway cult, crazy crap goes down.  It's a Lord of the Flies mentality.  Look at January 6th!

As for me, hey I was happy at the time to be at a play of John Glover's, and she randomly was there too.  I'd follow John right into the apocalypse!  He beat those Gremlins once, and as for the walking dead....

Shatner put out TV and Movie memory books on Star Trek years ago.  He himself remembered very little, Nimoy had the better memory of scripts and whatnot.  On films it's normally up to assistants to take notes and such, particularly for directors.  Most of these actors forget this stuff, it's just the job.  They rush through a script in a couple weeks time and then it's immediately to the next one.  They rarely watch the finished product.

Well Cabbie, this is the time to push for projects on Peacock.  NBC are pushing for new projects to up the subscriber base.  A couple years from now, they'll be like Netflix and not want to spend any money.

This is why you get vaccinated...

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6 cases in one department, 5 sick, 4 hospitalized, 2 dead, all unvaccinated.  One person unscathed, was vaccinated.  It's Florida so no mask requirement for unvaccinated despite 700 people working in the building.

Where did he write that?

So who actually upscaled the show?  HBOMax or fans?  I know fans have been using AI, like ireactions for Sliders episodes, for DS9 and VOY to what I'd say are uneven results.

Yes, a group of fans rebuilt the TOS sets pretty much close to the original specs years ago, and used them in the Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II web series.  They also leased them out to other fan productions, all located out of Ticonderoga, which is WAY upstate New York.

Well I'm not sure where else the writers can go?  Particularly on series that must have stories told in 10-15 episodes.  That's what streaming is these days, and how they've adapted Trek to it.  Picard clearly intentionally mirrors Discovery's third season in that way.  Picard especially, how they kind of turned it into Firefly meets Blade Runner, and Discovery which seemed to be an homage to Terminator.  Also, not for nothing, but in Picard's case, the late 24th century was nothing but galactic destruction brought on by writers of TNG, DS9, and the 09 movie.

I finally got a chance to catch up on Picard, Short Treks, and most of Discovery.  All I would say is that I've thoroughly enjoyed what has been done.  Yes, certain things are a bit dumb or annoying but overall they've been great.  Many fans bitch nonstop about Burnham or other characters, but I feel like these are mature characters doing mature things.  Hugh of Borg and Seven of Nine I felt had magnificent returns in Picard, as did Riker/Troi, and even Data.  It just all felt right.

PS: I cannot bring myself to watch Lower Decks or Prodigy whenever that comes out.  To me Trek is not slapstick comedy or children's toons.  ST:TAS was I felt mature (for the 70's) and serious.  In fact, I wish someone would reanimate that show using the original audio.

is there a talk show he has not hosted?

Late reply, but often this happens in customs, they open to make sure item is what it's supposed to be.  They're supposed to repackage it but well......

The vaccines may wind up being largely ineffective due to dramatic hesitancy/refusal mainly in MAGA-ville, but also heavily in the Deep South among all residents.

I got 2 of Moderna a few weeks ago.

PS: I never realized Limbaugh was being slightly lampooned in Prince of Wails.

Funny you should say TV, because Warner's actually offered Snyder to do a mini-series, but he decided just to do the 4 hour job.  He really has no place in either medium.  Great points on Superman, as he has been largely pointless since Man of Steel.

Torme was into black comedy not science fiction, certainly not to what would have satisfied John Rhys-Davies.  Doubt that has really changed much.

Very cool interview (in total) but I could listen to this man for days.  He felt he "mismanaged" the show.  Complained at how they would get great scripts from young UCLA/NYU kids, he'd offer them to the producers who refused to "let anyone into the writing process."  Said the purpose of TV show crew was to assure you have a job for "the next season."

Gave an anecdote about how Prof Arturo was an important figure on television, in terms of science, and should not have been made into a joke.  That was something that often happened to him.  Writers had very little experience with science ficiton, didn't even watch any.  Also began describing atomic bomb dynamics, followed by joking about how bad the science was in Last Days, "our upside down Twister," and the dual neutron stars from The Exodus.

PS: the other interviews were done by film critics buffoons, no Sliders mentions.

Ah well I recalled reading it, but obviously thankful he's doing good.

What episodes or scripts that Tracy read or saw from S3 really isn't relevant.  The only "key" continuity points from that season included the following....

Sliding radius changes (Double Cross), as well as Logan St. Clair introduced.
Arturo is shown to be ill (The Guardian).
Original timer bye-bye, new timer introduced (Slide Like an Egyptian).
Arturo might be cured? (Desert Storm).
Maggie introduced/Arturo dies (The Exodus).
Smarter Quinn returns, laments having given Kromaggs Sliding (The Other Slide of Darkness).

Whether "Wrong" Arturo is dead or not won't matter, as Torme could just "find" the original one lost during PTSS.  The Sliding radius I'm sure makes sense to have as a larger one, but who knows?  Which timer gets used, who cares?  Again I cannot see Maggie/Smarter Quinn/Kromagg origin or anything on Sci-Fi making it into Tracy's notebook, since he didn't do it in the first place.  There's just not much he would have to worry about.

Let me say that there is zero chance on this or most other worlds that Tracy Torme has any intention of "filling the void" from ANY work done following his loss of input/control on the series.  He's made that clear I think over the years, and normally swears he's never seen most of it either, which I do believe.  When he's quoted as saying "the passage of time," he likely just means to explain what these people have been doing/where have they been for 25 years?  With the stopping off point likely being some point in Season 3, but more than likely simply Vancouver.

Whether the exact story is close or not, I am completely on TF's side of the road on this.  You have to start with a modern day story, and at least a partially NEW cast.  In their travels, the story re-introduces Jerry O'Connell's Quinn, and then whoever else signs on.  You can also establish their 25 year backstory/gap in flashbacks as you go.  The goal is to sell this to an audience that likely has never seen nor remembers the original show very well. 

One scenario I guess would be like The Guardian, where you might reboot with a young Quinn and company, who run into the older versions.  I'm not in huge favor of this though it could work.

Actually they moved to Kenya this time!  They were supposed to go there last year, but the pandemic delayed it quite awhile.  Wonderful woman.  She paints all the time and IG's those.

That stinks!  Honestly the ones I'd most like to see upconverted are the low res BTS stuff. 

This may require more technical tweaking than PnP but I've seen nice results from 320x240/15fps stuff upscaled using DAIN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS4JNfnEEcA