Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: TV tropes Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:28:28 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <7jtMQ.876831$7Ika.50088@fx17.iad> <5quctlxlmi.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10e1fn8$7gc2$4@dont-email.me> <10e3pnu$v272$1@dont-email.me> <10e3skf$vh8j$2@dont-email.me> <10fl58s$2etoh$2@dont-email.me> <10fmsev$2sil7$1@dont-email.me> <52d3vlxj1k.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pXPkB+WyCAXZnIoxhG4r3whxF12PO6Xu7ybCLVxqBcAJjtzKYw X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Or3I0qRTspXNyDiFcv9oPtT9JdY= sha256:alDuOD+CyQ7Tnj+BGbRTF9Hw71PCfRl9FqkJZZW4w7o= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77759 On 2025-11-20 18:57, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-11-20, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> I hate cliffhangers. >> >> I remember watching Star Trek NG in 1992 in Ottawa. It finished the >> season with a cliffhanger, not knowing if Data would be still alive. I >> think it involved a time travel to Earth past. I remember seen his >> separated head in the dust. I returned to Spain, and it was 5 years or >> more till I could see the next episode. I had to install a pay satellite >> dish and subscribe. > > So they got money out of you. The trick worked. To a marketroid, > cliffhangers are Good. > >> ChatGpt says it was season 5 finale, titled “Time’s Arrow, Part I.” > > Don't forget what was IMHO an even bigger cliffhanger, the Borg's > assimilation of Picard in the season 3 finale, "The Best of Both Worlds". For me, the impact was smaller, compared with waiting 5 years! I was in Ottawa on time to watch seasons 4 and 5; I don't remember if they also replayed other seasons at the time. So when I watched the season 3 I didn't have to wait long to watch season 4 on the satellite channel, I think an ancestor of SciFi channel. > > I am Pentium of Borg. > Division is futile. > You will be approximated. :-D -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;