159. All alien planets have one-world governments
― President Keyes, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:09 (thirteen years ago)
160. The more a spaceship resembles an abandoned rustbelt steel mill, the more likely things are to get ugly. This applies double if spaceship is crewed mainly by earthy blue collar types.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:16 (thirteen years ago)
161a. (pre 2008) A black president161b. (pre 2016) A female president161c. (post 2016) A sensible republican president
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:17 (thirteen years ago)
160. awkward attempt at creating a controversial situation that mimics IRL current events, cf waterboarding an alien or forcing amphibious creature that are imprisoned to wear orange jumpsuits and hoods.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:18 (thirteen years ago)
see also:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHG3pi9EDA
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:27 (thirteen years ago)
161. Alien races are culturally and religiously monolithic.161b. Exceptions include conflicts between two classes that are opposite, such as the Let That Be Your Last Battlefield episode of the original Star Trek series
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:31 (thirteen years ago)
Didn't read the whole list, but ... doors that open with a scan of the eye/hand/thumbprint? Unhappy people with shaved heads? Interactive computers that respond to voice commands? Constant dull rumbling and the sound of water dripping in the background? The sound of things dramatically charging up (guns, machines, cars, etc.)?
162-167
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:33 (thirteen years ago)
168. the city/planet has weather controlled by one central computer, which goes haywire somehow (this is mainly in every 80s anime sci-fi)
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:50 (thirteen years ago)
169. pleather
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:51 (thirteen years ago)
corinthian pleather
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:56 (thirteen years ago)
170. Streamlined designs on spaceships that will never enter a planet's atmosphere.
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:00 (thirteen years ago)
A lot of 162-167 sound like the present!
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:08 (thirteen years ago)
171. Buildings with big fans on the top that are turning too slowly to be useful for anything.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:11 (thirteen years ago)
The future is now!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:13 (thirteen years ago)
172. under-lighting through grated floors
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:18 (thirteen years ago)
people brushing their teeth
oh wait, that's just battlestar galactica
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:27 (thirteen years ago)
173. character played by someone who was on Mad About You
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:28 (thirteen years ago)
Remnants of some long-dead precursor/progenitor galaxy-spanning alien who left tech and possibly a mystery behind for Our Hero to crack and whose imminent return after 20,000 - 10 million years will be in about 5 minutes.
This also qualifies for every sci-fi game ever.
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:52 (thirteen years ago)
174. Bad guy/science officer has British accent.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:04 (thirteen years ago)
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176. Oddly sterile living spaces.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:05 (thirteen years ago)
177. projectile weapons
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 20:17 (thirteen years ago)
178. actors doing stuff in front of greenscreens
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:25 (thirteen years ago)
179. Aliens look just like us, except crinkle-cut
― sktsh, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:31 (thirteen years ago)
180. Jaded ship's doctor.
― Theodora Celery, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:38 (thirteen years ago)
181. boots built into trousers
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:48 (thirteen years ago)
182. one character is a smoker
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:51 (thirteen years ago)
183. its the distant future or past but everyone speaks American English
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:25 (thirteen years ago)
184. vin diesel's robotic monotone performance kind of works for this moviehttp://i.imgur.com/udP9f.png
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:40 (thirteen years ago)
185. shabby moth-eaten knitwear
― silver pozole (clouds), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:41 (thirteen years ago)
186. Goo
― Theodora Celery, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:14 (thirteen years ago)
187. Space cows
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 06:56 (thirteen years ago)
188. Animals from other planets just being named like our animals with the planet stuck on the front, e.g. "Rigellian Hippo"
― sktsh, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:11 (thirteen years ago)
189. clones are people too, turns out (hint: it's YOU).
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:51 (thirteen years ago)
190. Hella Orientalism.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 09:58 (thirteen years ago)
191. Noone sees anything odd or inappropriate about naming a passenger carrying spacecraft 'Titanic'.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 10:02 (thirteen years ago)
192. utility data
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:46 (thirteen years ago)
193. Perfect tidal forces everywhere
― Theodora Celery, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 00:28 (thirteen years ago)
194. Humans
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:11 (thirteen years ago)
195. Orbits shows as perfectly circular.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:13 (thirteen years ago)
196. A complete lack of relativistic effects when traveling at or near light speed. Like, after the Enterprise's very first mission, everyone they ever knew on Earth should already have been dead for centuries.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:14 (thirteen years ago)
Planet of the Apes tho.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:18 (thirteen years ago)
197. Goddamn dirty apes
198. Female voice over the PA Speakers: Three. Two. One. Goodbye.199. Weapons that need to be charged for a certain number of seconds or minutes. LEDs light up when it's ready for use.200. A camera flash charging sound; usually directly before laz0r discharge or when some smallish spaceship or flying car is about to launch.
― Øystein, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:14 (thirteen years ago)
201. Twist ending where the protagonist finds out he's a robot, or a clone, or some bullshit like that.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:17 (thirteen years ago)
199b. Ridiculously designed battleship which has to lower shields to fire weapons.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:23 (thirteen years ago)
202. Unexpected effects caused by time travel
― Moodles, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:37 (thirteen years ago)
If the weapons could fire through the shields, those would be pretty bad shields.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:07 (thirteen years ago)
203. People are seamlessly able to fly spacecraft they've never seen or imagined before with no prior training
― NINO CARTER, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:18 (thirteen years ago)
Surely they can make one-directional shields in teh future.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:50 (thirteen years ago)
204. we've arrived on the planet..... it seems to be completely populated by women!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:56 (thirteen years ago)