On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:58 GMT, Amy Guskin 
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>>>On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:25:49 -0400, thus spake MJB (in article 
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>> Duggy  wrote in news:8631e689-3257-4985-80c6-
>> 351152a3caff{at}n19g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
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>>> On Jun 11, 12:37 pm, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>>>> smelled way too much like a perky teen
>>>> Timelord spinoff in the making.  Ugh.  And how about that blatant 
>> thievery
>>>> from Wrath of Khan/Search for Spock??
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>>> Actually, it mostly reminded me of the Superman/Aliens comic book
>>> where the blond girl assumed to be dead escapes in the shuttle and
>>> looks for adventure.
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>>> They've got an "Adult"'s spin-off (Torchwood), a
"kids" spin-off (Sara
>>> Jane Adventures) why not a Teen spin-off.
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>> Interestingly enough, my 13 yr old daughter loved the "The Doctor's 
>> Daughter" and hopes there's  more episodes with her in it or
a spin-off.
>> So, maybe the "doctor's daughter" (she's not literally a
daughter as she 
>> was created by a cloning process -- to my way of thinking) isn't aimed at 
>> fogies like us?
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>> Blatent thievery -- or just reuse of an idea they liked and thought would 
>> fit in that place?  In this case, it wasn't the genesis machine that 
>> revived the doctors daughter though, it was her time lord genes.... and 
>> I'm sure I've read the idea of terraforming processes like that in SF 
>> novels prior to the star trek movie, so ideas come from all over the 
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>Of course I know the spinoff wasn't aimed at my demographic, but that's not 
>what bothered me about it.  It was the obviousness of the setup, and a 
>concern that they're spreading themselves too thin.  I don't want to lose any 
>good writers, or good production crew, to a Teen Timelord spinoff!
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>As for the terraforming business reanimating a dead person, are you sure 
>that's not what saved the Doctor's daughter?  And, I wracked my brain but 
>couldn't come up with an example in books before that Trek movie.  I'd be 
>delighted if someone else could.  I'd think the concept -- the remaking of an 
>entire planet's ecosphere via machine -- is a fairly new one, and probably 
>doesn't go back that far (not to the pulp sf days, certainly).
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>Amy
Ok, I have to admit I haven't read the book (sorry, Dick isn't my
favorite...) but, at the end of Total Recall, they terraform Mars with
a big machine.  But then, where does that fall into the time line?

Charlie
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