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Old 03-27-2005, 10:19 PM
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Oh, okay.........thanks......
And Kira - Pointy's not a replicant (whatever you mean by that - some Dune reference?) - he's just British. Or possibly Arthur Dent....
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One, I was talking about Zeke, since he has a notorious and disturbing caffeine habit. Two, it's an "Endgame" reference: specifically, to Jim's review of it and fake, misleading rumors about Janeway being replcaced by the Borg that were flying around before it originally aired.
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Oh.....ok then...... ops:
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Old 03-28-2005, 10:06 PM
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Oh, okay.........thanks......
And Kira - Pointy's not a replicant (whatever you mean by that - some Dune reference?) - he's just British. Or possibly Arthur Dent....
Dune would be Ghola. Repilcants are from Blade Runner (though the term has been used elsewhere).

And yet still I'm not as nerdly as Kira. :P
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Since I understand neither of the references in your explanation... how do you figure that, exactly?
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You were referring to the DS9 episode Whispers, right?
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Let's see, I was out of town the last two days, so I guess I couldn't have seen it anyways. :?


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Old 03-29-2005, 03:49 AM
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You were referring to the DS9 episode Whispers, right?
Uh... not that I'm aware of. See second to last post.

You'd think on a site called Five-Minute Voyager, I could get away with one Voyager reference...
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Hey, I'm sure someone else got it.

::: crickets :::

Anyway, Sa'ar mentioned "Whispers" because the copy of O'Brien in that episode was called a replicant too. The gholas PHJ brought up are sort of a similar concept, but they're more like clones. That's how Duncan Idaho, a character killed off in the first book, is around for the later ones too -- the Tleilaxu keep making gholas of him.
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Since I understand neither of the references in your explanation... how do you figure that, exactly?
Well, only that you were able to remember a reference like that from one of Jim's reviews. That's the sort of thing that Zeke does.

Gholas are somewhat different in that they can be made to remember their past lives. Quite useful, because the Emperor Leto II went through rather a lot of them.
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Well, only that you were able to remember a reference like that from one of Jim's reviews.
Photographic memory. Also, I read the reviews before I had an opportunity to see the episodes, so they tended to stick with me.
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Anyway, Sa'ar mentioned "Whispers" because the copy of O'Brien in that episode was called a replicant too. The gholas PHJ brought up are sort of a similar concept, but they're more like clones. That's how Duncan Idaho, a character killed off in the first book, is around for the later ones too -- the Tleilaxu keep making gholas of him.
"Duncan Idaho"?

Sounds like Weyoun's as bad at making up aliases as is Ford Prefect
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Yeah, there are some pretty silly names in Dune. I mean, come on, Beka Valentine? Trance Gemini? Seamus Zelazny Harper? Weird stuff.

At least Duncan's rank wasn't Private.
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Yeah, there are some pretty silly names in Dune. I mean, come on, Beka Valentine? Trance Gemini? Seamus Zelazny Harper? Weird stuff.

At least Duncan's rank wasn't Private.
Duncan Idaho is right up there with Natty Bumppo for the prize of silliest serious character names in literature.
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