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Today is 07/14/2024, Post #2
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X15 - "SCAR"
Original Airdate (SciFi): 03/FEB/2006
(from internet transcript)
BB: Who's Scar?
Duck: Not who. What. Toaster's top gun. Deadliest raider in the cylon fleet.
Jo Jo: Gimme break. Come on they're machines. one's the same as the next.
Yeah, that's what we thought till Captain thrace cut the brain out of one.
Hotdog: Scar's the best they got.
THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
Cut to operating room. They remove the chip from McQueen
Cut to McQueen's quarters. McQueen is lying on his bunk and tries to get up but finds it very difficult. He's disorientated. He tries standing again.
Cut to flight deck. McQueen is working out again, though this time he moves sluggishly. Hawkes and West watch as McQueen tries to train. McQueen falls down. Hawkes and West go to help him up but he shrugs them off. Ross watches this in dismay.
From 2/11/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"The Angriest Angel" ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 10380 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/4/1994 ( "The Division Bell" by Pink Floyd ) is 10380 days
From 9/13/1888 ( ) To 2/3/2006 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"Scar" ) is 42876 days
42876 = 21438 + 21438
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 21438 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/veto-message-176
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: How do you fight a thing like that? I've got a ship up there somewhere, responsibility for four lives here, one of them dying because of me.
MCCOY: It isn't your fault.
KIRK: I'm in command, Bones. It makes it my fault. How do you fight a thing like that?
MCCOY: Maybe you're a soldier so often that you forget you're also trained to be a diplomat. Why not try a carrot instead of a stick?
KIRK: Spock.
SPOCK: Yes, Captain?
KIRK: The universal translator on the shuttlecraft. We can try that, talk to that thing.
SPOCK: The translator is for use with more congruent life forms.
KIRK: Adjust it, change it. The trouble with immortality is it's boring. Adjusting the translator will give you something to do.
SPOCK: It is possible. If I could widen its pattern of reception
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 20700 days
20700 = 10350 + 10350
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/5/1994 ( premiere USA TV series "Weird Science"::series premiere "She's Alive" ) is 10350 days
album: "The Division Bell" (1994)
Pink Floyd
"Poles Apart"
(from internet transcript, unverified)
Did you know
It was all going to go so wrong for you?
And did you see
It was all going to be so right for me?
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes?
Hey you
Did you ever realize what you'd become?
And did you see
That it wasn't only me you were running from?
Did you know all the time but it
Never bothered you anyway?
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes
The rain fell slow
Down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you
And the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know?
(Did you know, did you know, did you know, did you know, did you know, did you know, did you know, did you)
I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X15 - SCAR
Original Airdate (SciFi): 03/FEB/2006
(from internet transcript)
Asteroid Field
======================================
Kat: Oh, yeah, it's gotta be Scar. Found your hiding place, you little frakker. Starbuck, kiss your 200 goodbye. This guy's mine.
Starbuck: Something's definitely wrong. That can't be Scar. He should be jumping, or wheeling to gun at us. I'll check our six.
Starbuck is right. The viper they are chasing is a diversion. Scar powers up his engines and takes chase after the vipers. A short time later Starbuck flips her viper about, The sun is in her eyes and she can't see Scar firing at her until it's too late. Scar fires a few rounds into her viper.
Starbuck: Frakk! Frakk, I'm hit! Starbuck: I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit!
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ANALYSIS: Spray of bullets shatters nation's illusion of security
Space: Above And Beyond
"The Angriest Angel"
11 February 1996
Episode 15 Season 1
US Navy Commander - Chaplain: Colonel. Colonel. Colonel McQueen. Perhaps you should make peace with your maker. [ superstition, in context of the 'chaplain', a peddler of superstition in this real world ]
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?
album: "The Division Bell" (1994)
Pink Floyd
"Coming Back To Life"
(from internet transcript, unverified)
Where were you when I was burned and broken?
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless?
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside, the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight... into the shining sun
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231840/Geronimo
Encyclopædia Britannica
Geronimo
Geronimo, Indian name Goyathlay (“One Who Yawns”) (born June 1829, No-Doyohn Canyon, Mex.—died Feb. 17, 1909, Fort Sill, Okla., U.S.), Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, who led his people’s defense of their homeland against the military might of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo Geronimo
Gerónimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé, , lit. 'the one who yawns'; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands – the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhi – to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.
Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with the Americans continuing to take land, including Apache lands, following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. Reservation life was confining to the free-moving Apache people, and they resented restrictions on their customary way of life. Geronimo led breakouts from the reservations in attempts to return his people to their previous nomadic lifestyle. During Geronimo's final period of conflict from 1876 to 1886, he surrendered three times and eventually accepted life on the Apache reservations. While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of 30 to 50 Apache men.
In 1886, after an intense pursuit in northern Mexico by American forces that followed Geronimo's third 1885 reservation breakout, Geronimo surrendered for the last time to Lt. Charles Bare Gatewood. Geronimo and 27 other Apaches were later sent to join the rest of the Chiricahua tribe, which had been previously exiled to Florida. While holding him as a prisoner, the United States capitalized on Geronimo’s fame among non-Indians by displaying him at various fairs and exhibitions.
THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
McQUEEN: ... (to Wang) and you're eating dogs at Wriggly, (to West) and you go back to Mayberry, (to them all) I'm still going to be out here ... waiting for the next one. That's why I'm here. That's what I'm good for.
McQueen storms out shoving the door open aggressively.
Cut to McQueen's quarters. The camera pans around the room as we hear McQueen's voice. Among other items we see a copy of the Iliad, a calligraphed wall hanging, tools to paint Chinese characters, china figurines and a medal in a shadow box. There are many books on a bookshelf. On the desk, where McQueen sits, we see the Air Combat Maneuvering and Weapons Systems manual and a photograph of McQueen, in uniform, with a woman.
McQUEEN'S VOICE: Looking darkly upon Hector, swift-footed Achilles answered: 'I cannot forgive you. ... As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, there can be no love between you and me. One or the other must fall before then to glut with his blood, Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard. Remember, every valour of yours, for now the need comes hardest upon you to be a spearman and a bold warrior. There shall be no more escape for you. You will pay in a lump, for all those sorrows of my companions you killed, in your spear's fury.'
Cut to a briefing with the senior military.
McQUEEN: In summation, gentleman, my proposal is to flush out the bogie via the use of a diversionary squadron, whose rules of engagement are to turn tail and run. While an S.A.43 equipped with the Sewell-fuel missile, executing a forward-quarter intercept, rises from behind cover of the retreating squadron, fires the missile and terminates the enemy target.
BRODEN: Outstanding, Colonel. Outstanding.
McQUEEN: Thank you, sir.
GENERAL: Now, if we can only find this Chiggy von Richthofen.
ROSS: Intelligence is combing every known sector.
McQUEEN: Gentlemen, if I may?
BRODEN: Go ahead, Colonel.
McQUEEN: It would be the most glorious honour of a long military career ... if this Colonel was assigned, as pilot of the intercepting S.A.43.
ROSS: Colonel McQueen, your flight status is grounded.
McQUEEN: Yes, sir, this is due to the surgical insertion in the inner ear of a myoelectronic feedback device to counter vestibularoccular nerve damage sustained in battle, sir.
ROSS: Then you know, as well as anyone, that an M.E.F. device can not withstand the G-Force demands placed upon an attack jet pilot.
McQUEEN: I'll take that chance, Sir.
ROSS: Chance?
Ross gets in McQueen's face.
ROSS: Colonel, even if the device in your thick skull does not full out erupt during A.C.M., it would at the very least stress your temporal lobe to the point of loss of consciousness, seizure and death. ... I refuse to hand the Chigs a gimme.
McQUEEN: Then I will have the device removed, sir.
ROSS: You'll be vomiting every five steps.
McQUEEN: Gentlemen, if I commit to the procedure of having the M.E.F. device removed, pass the physical requirements and achieve approved flight status, will I be assigned?
Broden stands and walks around McQueen.
BRODEN: Colonel, this is the single most mission of the war.
McQUEEN: That's why I should be the one to fly it, sir.
BRODEN: Prove to me you're fit to fly, and you can fly.
THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
Cut to McQueen's quarters. He pulls out a kit box and dresses in his kit from when he was a member of the Angry Angels.
Cut to funeral party marching through the Saratoga.
Cut to McQueen walking towards the flight deck. He meets the funeral party.
McQUEEN: What else did you expect?
ROSS: You actually think I'm going to allow you to go out there after him?
McQUEEN: You have no choice.
ROSS: You'll have no wing support. No means of defeating its advanced technology. What makes you think you can win?
McQUEEN: I have no choice.
ROSS: I'll be a son of a [bitch] if I go to your funeral, Ty.
McQUEEN: Yes, you will Sir ... but we'll talk about your mother when I get back.
There's a suppressed laugh from Ross. McQueen heads into the flight deck. The chaplain follows him.
CHAPLAIN: Colonel, Colonel, Colonel McQueen, perhaps you should make peace with your maker?
McQueen halts and turns to face him.
McQUEEN: My maker was some geek in a lab. coat with an eye dropper and a petrie dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?
CHAPLAIN: These times we should all make peace with our maker.
McQueen approaches the chaplain.
McQUEEN: With all due respect, chaplain, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now because he knows I'm going to go out in that sky, in this plane and remove one of his creations from his universe. And when I return, I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggy von Richthofen's blood and celebrate his death.
McQueen turns away and heads for a cockpit.
CHAPLAIN: Amen.
The Wild Cards follow McQueen as he prepares to get into the cockpit. McQueen slumps and is caught by Hawkes. He clambers into the cockpit and Hawkes and Vansen connects him up.
McQUEEN: Get the hell out of here.
HAWKES: All right.
The Wild Cards leave and alarms sound.
MALE VOICE: Clear the flight deck. Stand by for Hammerhead engagement sequence.
McQUEEN: Saratoga, this is Queen Six. Oxygen control ... check. Mission computers ... check. Master arms switch ... safe. Inertial navigation system ... check.
MALE VOICE: You're number one on the runway.
McQUEEN: Roger, Rhino four-four, ready to copy.
As the cockpit lowers the Wild Cards salute him through the observation window. The Hammerhead heads into space.
MALE VOICE: Queen Six, this is Saratoga, your distance is ...
McQueen switches off the comm. He inserts music in the player and we hear a piece of Beethoven begin.
Cut to Winslow's funeral.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: O' God, the creator and redeemer of all the faithful, hear our supplications and through thy infinite love and mercy graciously grant unto the soul of thy servant department, remission of all her sins. By which she may have deserved the severity ...
As the chaplain continues we see the Hammerhead flying in space then cut back to the funeral.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: ... of thy justice and punishments in the world to come. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven ...
Cut to McQueen's Hammerhead.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: ... Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses ...
McQueen's lidar warps.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: ... as we forgive our trespassers, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
Alien fighter comes into view.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: ... Amen.
Cut to honour-guard.
MARINE: Honour-guard, atten-hut.
Cut to Hammerhead.
MARINE'S VOICE: Ready - aim - fire.
The Hammerhead fires at the alien fighter. The alien returns fire.
MARINE'S VOICE: Ready - aim - fire.
McQueen and the alien fight.
MARINE'S VOICE: Ready - aim - fire.
McQueen and the alien twist and turn, firing on each other as they try and gain the upper hand.
McQUEEN: This one's for you, Winslow.
McQueen fires a series of missiles at the Chig and destroys it.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: O' Lord, we commend to thee the soul of thy servant Kelly ...
Cut back to Winslow's funeral.
CHAPLAIN'S VOICE: ... that having departed from this world she may live with thee. And by the grace of thy merciful love wash away the sins that in human frailty she committed in the conduct of her life. Through Christ, our Lord, Amen.
Winslow's casket is launched into space.
Cut to McQueen's return to the Saratoga. The flight crew work around his cockpit. McQueen gets out. There is blood running from the ear from which the chip was removed. The Wild Cards are there to see him arrive back on board. McQueen walks passed them and leaves the flight deck.
Cut to bar. McQueen has a bottle of scotch and pours himself a drink.
McQUEEN'S VOICE: I know now with certainty who I am. But I'll be damned if I'll ever know the point. And now all I can ask is, who was he? And who was she? And what was the point?
McQueen turns away from the bar and looks out into space. He raises his glass and takes a drink. He takes the bottle and moves away from the bar, closer to the window, pouring himself another drink.
[tv-series episode ends]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640040/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Lawmakers
Release info
United States January 11, 1971
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Quotes
Door Gunner (inside airborne US military helicopter): Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
Private Joker: Why should we do a story about you?
Door Gunner: 'Cuz I'm so fuckin' good! I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water buffalo, too! Them's all confirmed!
Private Joker: Any women or children?
Door Gunner: Sometimes!
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much!
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (Official Music Video)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
from YouTube
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:41 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 07/15/2024
