Star Trek - Dr Who - Red Dwarf

[griff]

I’m 25 miles from Carlisle BDB, in a village with 310 residents. Norden would be a town around here so no thanks.

[Chauncey]

Young Man… 🤣🤣🤣

No, didn’t think Carlisle had villages like Norden 😎

I've got it on good authority that you was spotted acting suspiciously in Norden today bd 😏

[Chauncey]

Coincidentally Dr Who was the jackpot subject on tonight's Pointless

Stories in the Dr Who series...

William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras

John Pertwee and Tom Baker eras

Peter Davidson,Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy eras

The jackpot was won

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

In my opinion the best ever Doctor Who story was Genesis Of The Daleks in 1974.

The Doctor & pals have finished one story and are travelling back from one planet to another
to return to the Tardis. They are travelling by means of a transmat (transfer matter) beam
but they are intercepted by Time Lord technology and arrive on an unknown planet at an unknown
time. A Time Lord appears and says that there are projections in time that the Daleks could
eventually dominate the universe. He tasks the Doctor with going back to the point in time
where the Daleks are just beginning to exist. He must either prevent them existing or make
sure that they become decent entities. The Doctor takes on the task and just before disappearing
the Time Lord says that they are on the planet Skaro at the appropriate time.

I believe that in this story we see what the writer Terry Nation has in his mind about the time
of his youth. Davros and his henchmen all wear black. The good guys all wear white. This is a trope
from the black and white cowboy / western films. Davros is clearly a megalomaniac and nothing
must get in the way of his ambitions to ensure that his race is pure and dominant i.e. he is an Adolf
Hitler type of character. The Davros henchmen all acknowledge his commands with a click of their heels.
The chief henchman of Davros at one stage actually wears an Iron Cross. A war is ongoing between the
Kaleds (Davros's race) and the Thals, who are in the final stages of preparing a rocket bomb that they
believe will win that war for them. Forced labour is used to load the nose cone with lethal chemicals but
the people who carry these chemicals into the rocket are affected by being in close proximity to these
chemicals and after several deliveries they die. This is exactly what happened in Germany in 1944. The
German V2 rocket bombs were made by forced labour. Routinely being in close proximity to the dangerous
chemicals killed a lot of this forced labour. In fact more people were killed in the making of the V2 rocket
bombs than were killed by their deployment. The Daleks were the 'successful' results of Davros's genetic
experiments after numerous other less 'successful' creations were cast out into the wilderness. Towards
the end of WW2 Hitler had ordered genetic experiments to be done but by then Germany was in such a
dire state that very little actually happened. It is unpleasant to imagine what would have taken place in these
experiments and what the actual results would have been.

In the denouement of the story another trope from the Terry Nation early years was that Davros was killed
by what he created, just as Professor Frankenstein was killed by what he created. However, in that first
Frankenstein film based upon Mary Shelly's book the story was so popular that numerous sequels were made.
Maybe Professor Frankenstein did not die at the end of the first film, hmmmmm ......
The same sort of revival occurred with Davros because he was a popular villain. Davros is still out there
and we are certain to see him again.

[griff]

And there was me thinking it was about the Tories.

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

And there was me thinking it was about the Tories.

Yes that is so, it was about Tories / Nazis, the Master Race unsullied by imperfections, differences, hating everything that was not them etc.

This is episode 1 of the 6. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7za8bq

The other 5 episodes are also on the same web site, which has its own search engine.

Mary Whitehouse objected to the first few seconds of episode 1. She also objected to subsequent episodes when the Doctor received several
cynical blows. Maybe she still regarded it as being a program primarily for children.

[Chauncey]

Stefan,I'm going to put it out there and say that you are probably my favourite poster on this forum,your depth of knowledge on subjects is admirable and interesting to read,you've got the ability to make want to click onto links that I've got no interest in at all,are you a teacher or something,you remind me of Brian Cox in that you can keep people's attention even if they're not all that knowledgeable or interested in what's being said

Keep it up 😎

[Blackdogblue]

I've got it on good authority that you was spotted acting suspiciously in Norden today bd 😏

Took the mutt for a trim & was robbed of £36 🤨

[Chauncey]

If Dr Who can only reincarnate a total of 12 times as stated in the 1983 episode Mawdryn Undead how come there's 15 doctors then? It's almost as if it was a kids programme

I rest my case m'lud and getting back to watching Red Dwarf who's tongue has always been firmly in its cheek

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

"Originally, the Doctor had only 12 regenerations to spare. However, in the Battle of Trenzalore, the Eleventh Doctor is granted a new set of lives by the Time Lords. It isn’t said how many regenerations this new cycle has, but it is implied to be another set of 12".

https://collider.com/doctor-who-regeneration-how-does-it-work-history-explained/#:~:text=Originally%2C%20the%20Doctor%20had%20only ,lives%20by%20the%20Time%20Lords.