This Is Not The Sci-Fi You Are Looking For
My father and I were discussing Star Trek. As you do.
Me: So you have The Original Series, right?
Dad: Right...
Me: And then you have The Next Generation.
Dad: ...
Me: The one with Patrick Stewart?
Dad: Right.
Me: And then you have Deep Space Nine, and then comes Voyager, and THEN you have Enterprise, which is set before TOS, so it's a prequel to all the other shows.
Dad: Then where does that other show fit in?
Me: Which other show?
Dad: You know, that show you used to watch?
Me: (thinking) What Sci-Fi show did I watch that my father knows I watched? He can't mean... (aloud) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA?!
Dad: Oh yeah, that one! Where does that fit in?
Me: They have nothing to do with one another! The two are set in completely different universes!
Dad: But they both have to do with galaxies or something...
Me: ... You are aware Star Trek and Star Wars are completely different too, right?
Dad: Oh, that I know.
I am convinced he thinks that all Sci-Fi that lacks lightsabers is automatically Star Trek.
6 comments:
Well, Star Wars did do a good job with the light sabers; easy way to recognise things related to it.
Point out phasers to your Dad, and the streamlined USS ships.
Oh! A friend of mine has a tricorder app on his phone! It's quite a bit of fun!
Remember Unit Wars?
http://individual.utoronto.ca/noremorse/UnitWars/03/Trailer.html
Metric won, right? RIGHT?
*sigh* At least your dad knows there's a difference between Star Trek and Star Wars... And that you watch Battlestar Galactica. My mother sees aliens on my monitor and assumes I'm watching Sesame Street.
@Keith: Honestly, my dad has no respect for sci-fi as a genre (with a few exceptions) so it's really besides the point. But he did introduce me and my bro to Star Wars, which is great parenting :-D
@Stephen: Oh my god, I have such terrible alzheimers, i had completely forgotten having seen that - till well I saw it again. Wow, good times, huh?
@Hem: Were you watching Farscape? bc then your mom's assumption makes perfect sense ;-) Atleast it's better than my mom, who, when I used to watch anime, said: "Oooh, Japanese sounds rather like Telegu, doesn't it?"
Keith: I never finished Unit Wars (what else is new? I also never finished Aftermath... and then a bunch of Hollywood-types stole my ideas and made movies out of them), but yeah, the Metric Alliance would eventually win over the evil Imperial Empire.
Sharon: Ah, for the golden days of randomness... those days are gone now :(
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