This week at Flashbak, in honor of Comic-Con, I looked back at sci-fi TV's spotty history depicting science fiction conventions.
Here's a snippet and the url: (http://flashbak.com/biting-hand-feeds-sci-fi-tv-goes-fan-convention-37731/ )
"The
2015 San Diego Comic-Con International is now in our rear-view mirrors. Every
year at this huge gathering of fans, the industry puts forward writers, actors,
artists and directors teasing their latest productions. Fans see sneak previews
and trailers, get their photographs autographed, listen to panel discussions, and
buy officially-licensed merchandise by the truck-load.
But
how has cult-TV programming actually treated actually sci-fi convention-goers,
historically-speaking?
Well,
the answer isn’t clear cut.
But
first off, there was this.
Get A Life! by dag2007
In
this famous skit from Saturday Night Live in the year 1986
(penned by Bob Odenkirk and Judd Apatow, Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner,
attends a Star Trek convention and treats the nerdy convention-goers,
well, rather roughly.
They’ve
turned something he did as “a lark” in the sixties into a colossal waste of
time, you see. Why don’t they just stop
living in their parents’ basement, get out, and kiss a girl?
Why
don’t they “get a life?”
Yeah,
it’s not very nice.
And
it’s not particularly funny, either, since the skit trades on two pretty weak
sources of humor: broad stereotypes and mean-spirited insults.
But
this six-minute segment doesn’t represent the whole story of sci-fi TV and
conventions, either.
Way back in 1979, The
New Adventures of Wonder Woman featured an episode set a science
fiction convention called “Spaced Out.”
Here, Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) goes in search
of a jewel thief (Rene Auberjonois) who has stolen important crystals used for NASA’s
space navigation. The stolen goods are
traced to a sci-fi TV convention (celebrating the old TV series “Space Quest.”)
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