Oh nooooo!!!! Not just one movie!!!!
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The Clentitian sat up and told them, “I was hired to program it. But I found out that someone had hacked the ship’s computers to sabotage it. And my project manager laughed at me when I told him. He told me it wasn’t hacked, that it was Rostlin Kern herself who directed the extra code be added. Then there was a large zap noise, and that’s the last thing I remember.” Val said, “Huh. So what does the extra code do?” The Clentitian said, “Horrible things. The food synths won’t make booze or sweets, the entertainment units will only play one movie, and rather than go to planet Haurk, it autopilots the ship to fly directly into our system’s star.” Shocked, Audri said, “Surely whistleblower retaliation isn’t legal here, is it?” Val said sarcastically, “Yeah, that’s the first thing that came to mind for me too.”
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Hey, relax. Food synth vodka tastes like asteroid anyway. To really let everyone aboard feel the pain of only one movie, the ship is running only on impulse engines at one-quarter power … it’ll take years to reach the sun.
The ship doesn’t look like it has a dark speed drive, so you may be right.
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“And we have to watch it with robots who make bad jokes about it throughout the movie!”
“I think I’ve seen this movie before.”
“Yeah, like that!”
It’s “The Rostlin Kern Story”.
Playing in an unstoppable, unending loop.
Let me guess.. this ship cost 100x more than simply building a house for every homeless person.
Its not a bug, its a feature.
I’m getting Golgafrincham B Ark vibes here…
So it IS the Marching Morons “solution”.
Don’t knock it. Because of the Golgafrinchen Ark Fleet Ship B, we are now subjects of Dictator Trump. Are you not entertained?
Crap, and now I have run out of Spacetrawler archive to read. I read the whole thing in a couple of months and without noticing slammed face first into the wall of the future. Thanks. Ouch. Now I will actually have to bag the garbage and take it out and wash the dishes. Life is a puke stain that never gets more comfortable. And I have a flu that is using my tinnitus as a symphony orchestra. When it isn’t constricting my esophagus. Or maybe it’s just MS. Thanks god for dysthymia or I would be inordinately bothered by all this. Instead I am just ordinarily bothered and I am well too used to that. Pff.
I would have thought Christopher would be more bothered by the lack of sweets, yet here we are.
@Pastor_Dan, Huh. You know me well. I’m not sure why my comment focused on the movie… hm. Maybe it irked me more (if it were real) because it’s such a petty detail, whereas the lack of sweets is just a disheartening tragedy. 🙂
The One Movie to Entertain Them All is: Porky’s II…..Yikes!
Not “The Room”?
Could be worse. Could have been “A Serbian Film.” Do NOT watch it if you are vegetarian. Or possessed of normal emotional responses.
This Rostlin Kern has learned the first lesson of tyranny: If you off the whistleblowers first, you never hear a peep from anyone. See where ‘Stars & Stripes,’ the Army paper, will no longer carry AP or Reuters stories that appeal to “woke sensibilities”? This is what happens when you put Calvin in charge and stuff Hobbes into a trash bag.