Sci-Fi Trivia Quiz

Na, just run them over with my walker

Easy one, since I'm not a trivia guru by any shakes

One gentleman who played all three main alien races in StarTrek also had a regular role on another Sci-Fi program

What was that other Sci-Fi program and what was his role

"Old fart," Atlantis? You knocking the young pups over with that cudgel/walking stick of yours?

Anyhoo, lad, you're up next.

So easy for us old farts

The man who played Gordon was Buster Crabbe - who played Buck Rogers back in the 30's as well as playing Flash Gordon also in the 30's

His characters name was a salute to the parts he'd originated

Okay, this might be easy. Then again, maybe not.

In the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the two-part episode Planet of the Slave Girls featured a character named Brigadier Gordon. At the climax of the episode, both he and Buck share a conversation where Gordon tells Buck that he's been at this sort of thing for a long, long time, way before Buck was born. Buck asks "You think so?" to which Gordon replies: "I know so."

What is the paradox to this conversation?

Jagdwolf wrote:

Fokker1138, my whiskers and fur are getting greyer. Have you reached your decision yet?

Lol, I though you were going to go ahead, I still haven't found a copy that I don't have to buy.  

Jagdwolf wrote:

Just when you thought it was safe to go into Toys'R'Us... Hey Boba, this one of your cousins?

I wish... Nice!

Clan Mongoose attempted to use their own view of Kerensky's words to sidestep, justify and defend against a Grand Council ruling that their actions were "un-clanlike." Deemed unfit to continue by the Council, they were targeted for a Trial of Absorption. Already weakened by a conflict with the Star Adders, Clan Mongoose fell before the Smoke Jaguars. The Smoke Jaguars refused to take any of the defeated Clan's genetic legacies but they were acquired by the Cloud Cobra, as were the Bloodnames of Clan Mongoose.

Jagdwolf wrote:

ikar01, the Wolverine survivors that escaped were later suspected of being known as the Minnesota Tribe. Good memory.

I think that was the name of one of their ships they got away with.  Was Mongoose absorbed or was it destroyed?

The use of a nuke was the same reason that Smoke Jaguar was selected for extermination by the Innersphere invasion fleet and why the other clans were not that willing to help them during the attack unless they were attacked.

TD4438 wrote:

Those be mine and Patlaborunit1's trooping brothers of the 501st Legion.

501st Legion, Canadian Garrison. I went to school with the fellow in black in the background.

Jagdwolf wrote:

Just when you thought it was safe to go into Toys'R'Us... Hey Boba, this one of your cousins?

Jagdwolf wrote:

Fokker1138: if I'm not mistaken, that would be the 2006 DVD original trilogy release, each two-disc set of each film featuring the original and remastered (non-spec-ed) versions.

I'm not sure about those, I'd have to dig them up.  I remember at the time there was some big brewhah over the fact that they were reframing certain scenes to remove part of the original footage because Lucas didn't like the guard getting blasted in the detention center and some other crap like that.  I for one am pissed as all hell about that whole greedo fires first bs.  Any way, the one I was thinking of was the Star Wars Limited Edition set.  It has the "Special Edition" though they don't label it as such anymore and on the second discs it has the original theatrical release. I'll have to see if I can hunt down those original 2006 releases to check.  

Just when you thought it was safe to go into Toys'R'Us... Hey Boba, this one of your cousins?

Fokker1138: if I'm not mistaken, that would be the 2006 DVD original trilogy release, each two-disc set of each film featuring the original and remastered (non-spec-ed) versions.

Fokker1138 wrote:

Jagdwolf wrote:   Yeah, the novels never went into detail, just alluded to the fact that they used nuclear weapons and made it sound like that was why they were annihilated.  I guess Wizkids decided to flesh the story out more in the rpg books.   As far as a question, give me a minute(read 24 hours) to figure something out.  I want to think of something not easily googled.  Unless you want to toss the win to the original answerer of the question.

ok you have had your 24 hours haha

Jagdwolf wrote:

Fokker1138, you have the gist of the answer, so I will accept it. For those of you wanting the whole story: The Wolverines were a tad miffed that the Council awarded a disputed Brian Cache to the Widowmakers, so they attempted to seize it for themselves and were publically censured after losing the Trial of Refusal. They challenged the ruling and made it personal with Kerensky himself, and seceded from the Clans. This is when they used the nuke, and were then slated for annihilation by the other Clans.

Yeah, the novels never went into detail, just alluded to the fact that they used nuclear weapons and made it sound like that was why they were annihilated.  I guess Wizkids decided to flesh the story out more in the rpg books.  

As far as a question, give me a minute(read 24 hours) to figure something out.  I want to think of something not easily googled.  Unless you want to toss the win to the original answerer of the question.  

Fokker1138, you have the gist of the answer, so I will accept it. For those of you wanting the whole story:

The Wolverines were a tad miffed that the Council awarded a disputed Brian Cache to the Widowmakers, so they attempted to seize it for themselves and were publically censured after losing the Trial of Refusal. They challenged the ruling and made it personal with Kerensky himself, and seceded from the Clans. This is when they used the nuke, and were then slated for annihilation by the other Clans.

Jagdwolf wrote:

Wolverine is correct, but you need more than "destroyed for some reason."

Well the Battletech wiki claims some other political intrigue/dissidence bs, but from what I remember from the books they were wiped out for using nuclear weapons.  

Edit:  Upon further reading, I guess someone thought that the reason needed fleshing out so they were supposedly rebelling against Kerensky's rule of the clans and used the nuke to wipe out a Snow Raven genetic repository.  

Opps! Sorry....It's such a long thread, I forgot to look properly at the beginning.

 How embarrasing!