{"id":129900,"date":"2016-02-24T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/starships.html"},"modified":"2016-02-24T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:25:08","slug":"starships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/starships.html","title":{"rendered":"Starships!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, many, many starships. And types of starships. And people on starships. And eleventy-dozen little moments from movies and TV shows about starships that had me smiling many, many times.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from 2012, but first seen by me today, h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105138568577624786912\" oid=\"105138568577624786912\">Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTGdGKEEiYE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTGdGKEEiYE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/46927209\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/46927209<\/a> &#8230; backstory at <a href=\"http:\/\/bironic.livejournal.com\/290689.html\">http:\/\/bironic.livejournal.com\/290689.html<\/a> &#8230; clips and lyrics cross-reference at <a href=\"http:\/\/bironic.livejournal.com\/303285.html\">http:\/\/bironic.livejournal.com\/303285.html<\/a> &#8230; and someone else&#39;s faboo B&amp;W remix at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3dt7JpN7Bv0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3dt7JpN7Bv0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Before anyone asks, &quot;Why nothing from movie\/show X?&quot;, this was apparently thrown together as an assignment in only a week, using just what the creator had on hand. And it&#39;s pretty damned good for those &quot;limitations,&quot; for all I wish there was more <i>Farscape<\/i> or any <i>Babylon 5).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTGdGKEEiYE' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BC1E448pkXw'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, many, many starships. And types of starships. And people on starships. And eleventy-dozen little moments from movies and TV shows about starships that had me smiling many, many times. Originally from 2012, but first seen by me today, h\/t +Doyce Testerman. (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTGdGKEEiYE and https:\/\/vimeo.com\/46927209 &#8230; backstory at http:\/\/bironic.livejournal.com\/290689.html &#8230; clips and lyrics cross-reference at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/starships.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starships!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130473,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/22\/the-lost-era-of-soviet-starships.html","url_meta":{"origin":129900,"position":0},"title":"The Lost Era of Soviet Starships","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Apr-16 12:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, no, they're not starships, they're just really cool hydrofoils.But, man, you could just past that into a modern-day Buck Rogers movie and it would look perfect. 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