64. All important character names begin with Qua- sound.
― Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
65. All important character names end with coughing-up-a-hairball sound.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
66. Alien speaks with exaggerated Russian accent.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
67. Place names have a number randomly tagged onto the end, ie, "Welcome to the city of Manchester 5!".
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
68. Name of future city is just the name of a real life present day city with 'New' in front of it, ie, 'New Boston', 'New Berlin', 'New New York'.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
69. pod head + wiggly appendages + spindly exoskeleton = horrific, unknowable alienness
― Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
70. tall, elegant alien slowly tilts head to the side, radiating compassion
palms gradually extend outwards, a gesture of pure peace and goodwill
― Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
71. more blinking lights than is conceivably necessary
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
72. some kind of monk
― Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
73. 'spice'
― Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
74. Sound waves can travel through a vacuum.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
75. Space ships fly and manoeuvre through space as though they were aircraft.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
76. various races of cartoonishly 'weird'/monstrous looking aliens tend to hang out together in bars, as if they're only 'alien' vis a vis humans but not to each other
― Chris S, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
77. White plastic everywhere - spacesuits, spaceships, spaceplates, spacephones, spacedoors, spacetoilets
― Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 6 January 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
78. Conflict of logic results in malfunctioning A.I.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 January 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
79. post-apocalyptic villains who dress like the hell's angels crossed with sigue sigue sputnik
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
80. someone's wearing an eyepatch
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
81. "don't you see...[insert detailed explanation of how the aliens are just like us, whether because warlike or peaceful]...they're just like us."
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
82. Movie is clearly some classic book, just IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEhttp://www.containsmoderateperil.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/treasure-island-in-outer-space-01.png
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
83. ancient religion whose teaching are pretty unclear beyond awesome telepathic or telekinetic powers
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
84. wise-cracking robot
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
85. "Based on the short story by Phillip K Dick"
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
86. In a time travel movie, a character who can't believe that Ronald Reagan was/is/is going to be President.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
87. Character staring blankly into space, is plugged into some kind of computer network.
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
85. city of the future resembles 20th century community college campus designed in the brutalist style
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
88. ^^^
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
89. British accents (especially for villains)
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
90. Holographic terminals
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
85b. Movie adds several dozen plot points to PKD story to avoid being 11 minutes long
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
91. Mega-weapons that can blow up planets/suns/galaxies/etc.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Ha.
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
92. Sleep chamber/cryogenics.
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
93. Air lock opening, whooshing someone and assorted space appliances to their space doom.
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ that reminds me
94. Fog spurting out from doors and/or rooms for no good reason.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Like, should freon gas or whatever really be injected into the air people are breathing in order for the auto-doors to open? That doesn't happen when I go into the supermarket. Seems unsafe...
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
95. interfacing with universe-inside-the-global-computer-network involves hurtling through black space/neon light ripped off from tron/early rave videos/starfox. (this may have peaked around 1999.)
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
96. "good day, citizen."
"good day, officer motorcyclehelmet."
"aren't you a 53b-class drone? it's highly irregular to be out of your pod-center without authorizing documentation."
"important mission for the unit director, officer. i'm, uh, personally retrieving utility data from individual buildings because the, uh, docutube system is.......jammed."
"i'm going to call this in, citizen. wait right here."
*flees*
"halt, citizen!"
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
97. "We only have x minutes before the oxygen runs out!"
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
98. Some bullshit MacGuffin.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
99. world that resembles ours in every detail is revealed to be a technologically-induced dream
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
100a. Race/class issues displaced onto robots.
100b. Race/class issues displaced onto aliens.
These two are mutually exclusive, cuz the plot would break or something.
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Similarly:
101a. Alien falls in love with human.101b. Robot falls in love with human.
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
9b. Bad aliens' spaceship interior is lit by a nasty color like red or or green or yellow and be super dark. Also, have random sparks.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
102. Computers are naturally combustible.
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
103. Teenagers with multi-coloured hair and dressed like 90s ravers.
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
104. sweeping a halogen light over someone can diagnose any illness
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
105a. Big super-bright/white-walled military planning rooms with clear panels w/ star charts and maps and shit.
105b. Space Generals that have distinctive face tattoos or markings and are ambiguously ethnic.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 6 January 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
106. 99% of world lives in steamy shanty-town watching CRT Televisions.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 January 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://deltaquadrant.webs.com/images/chakotay.gif"Suck it, Janeway! I've been promoted to Space General!"
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 6 January 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
107. Deserted ship. 107a. "Let's see if we can pull up the ship's log."107b. "Where did they all go?"107c. "They're all dead."
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link