[ale] Re: OT: FIELD REPORT: TONIGHT&Thursday: Star Trek: The Menagerie in theatres

[Scott Castaline]

Pope jonnyX wrote:
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> On 11/16/2007 8:29 PM, Scott Castaline spaketh'd unto us thusly:
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>> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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>>> Want to know where the ideas came from that ended up as Star Trek?
>>> Check out a copy of Forbidden Planet.  This is a remake of 
>>> Shakespeare's "The Tempest" set on a distant planet.
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>> Is that what the Tempest was about? I thought that it was just all the 
>> drugs back in the 60's when I went to High School.
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> You must be thinking of the hallucinogenic 1991 remake by Peter Greenaway,
> "Prospero's Books":
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> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102722/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero's_Books
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No, this was definitely in the 60's, around 1967. The drug of choice was 
definitely one of the hallucinogenics.