Comments on: Roddenberry’s Genesis II and Planet Earth Coming to DVD

By: Movie_fan

Movie_fan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:36:59 +0000

I thought these movies were ok, not terrific, but good b movie pilots. I would have bought them, even burned copies if the price had been more reasonable. These movies in my opinion are not worth the 30.00 price tag. I guess I’ll stick to my over the air recorded vhs copies transferred to dvd. My price, 0.00

By: lao3d

lao3d — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:31:57 +0000

This is great news! I remember being glued to the set when they premiered back in the day, and being crestfallen that there was no series to follow.

I wouldn’t hold out for blu-ray though, since the Warner Archive Collection is the studio’s means of making less “commercial” out-of-print titles available to niche audiences when no wide release is planned. It’s a print-on-demand DVD service, which are shipped in bare-bones packaging with no extras generally. Not the treatment we all might like, but better than nothing. And the source material is probably the best available. I’ll definitely be ordering these.

By: MrRegular

MrRegular — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:14:13 +0000

The second season of Space:1999 was a disaster–due to Fred Frieberger, the same guy who gave us the third season of TOS.
However, don’t knock the first season– especially the episode “Black Sun”. The episode is a masterpiece of televsion science fiction–depicting an encounter with the Supreme Being that takes the viewer along for an exalted mystical experience beyond time and space. Spectacular!

By: COMMANDER KEEN

COMMANDER KEEN — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:00:15 +0000

@#7
“Look my backwards friend, Genesis may be Pilot forbidden but I’m damn well goin…….[ing to see it]“.

“Forgive me but your voice is carrying. I don’t you don’t want to talk about watching this pilot in public.”

“I’ll watch what I like! Who in the Hell are you?”

By: Horatio

Horatio — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:26:15 +0000

RE #92
Absolutely Majel was getting a cut of that show.

By: bill hiro

bill hiro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:09:29 +0000

“No I’m even more disappointed in the produces of this show. Seems they were banking on someone else’s buck from the beginning.”

I can only assume that one of the entities banking on that series was the Roddenberry Estate – particularly as Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an executive producer for a couple of seasons.

By: Petitspock

Petitspock — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:04:45 +0000

I’ll say one thing for the creators of Andromeda. They kept to the Roddenberry tradition of recycling character traits. Stoic first officer (Cage, TOS). Number One/Make it so/Engage (Cage, TNG). Will Decker/Will Riker. Deltan empath/Betazoid telepath. Past relationship between former and later.

By: Petitspock

Petitspock — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:28:28 +0000

‘ One would think that he would have at least presented a script to the “Tales of Tomorrow”, “Science Fiction Theatre”. or “Twilight Zone” ‘

Maybe not. For comparison, cosider Steven Moffat. IMDB shows that he mostly wrote comedy including episodes of “Coupling” and the British version of “The Office.” When he finally came to write science fiction, he penned some of the best episodes of the revived “Dr. Who” like “The Empty Child”/”The Doctor Dances”, “The Girl in the Fireplace”, “Blink”. All of those episodes are in my list of all time favorite genre episodes. Until 2005, there was no evidence that he had any serious interest in sci fi, much less that he was so good at it.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:15:23 +0000

RE: SPACE: 1999. People seem to forget that in the first season, the characters DID question how they could have survived the explosion, and wondered if some force beyond even their comprehension as rational-minded scientists was guiding their fate. All of this was forgotten about in the second season but I thought the mystical SOLARIS feel of the thing worked in the first season.

As to ANDROMEDA, yes, there was no actual Roddenberry script like there was for EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT – they just reworked the concepts from GENESIS II. Basically, ANDROMEDA was “GENESIS II in space.”

By: RD

RD — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:58:23 +0000

#85. Thanks for the reminder. No disrespect to Roddenberry, but with his penchant for revisionist history, and taking credit for other’s work, I merely wonder what the “real” story is. There’s no mention of Sci-Fi in his professional writing background until Trek (That I could find on the internet). One would think that he would have at least presented a script to the “Tales of Tomorrow”, “Science Fiction Theatre”. or “Twilight Zone” if his childhood sci-fi background had been that deeply ingrained. Then again, he was working his way into Hollywood through a particular genre and then as now, might have confused people had he started pitching sci-fi along with it. Either way hopefully someone more familiar with his documented past will elaborate.