BBC Space Odyssey: A Voyage To The Planets, Part 2

Here is part 2. Part 1 is right here.

In the US version of this show, the crew of Pegasus gave up at Saturn. This is the full version, where after Saturn the crew went on to visit Pluto and a comet before coming home.

This was broadcast two years before the IAU lost their marbles and voted Pluto out of the lineup of planets. This episode has the full Pluto segment, unaired in the States.

A transient glitch occurs between 38:47 and 38:56, where the footage skips back unexpectedly to a segment in the Saturn chapter.

BBC Space Odyssey: A Voyage To The Planets, Part 1

This is the show that I posted several links about earlier. The whole show has been put together in two episodes.

Here is part 1. Part 2 is this way.

Terry Wogan's Great Misjudgment

In 1991, former TV presenter and former athlete David Icke took a brief sabbatical from presenting TV shows. When he came back, he was wearing turquoise, and he had a message for the world. And he went on the chat show Wogan to espouse his world view to presenter Terry Wogan.

This was a misjudgment. On both sides.


Since that time, of course, the BBC's record for supporting and even championing evil in its midst has been well and truly exposed. Stuart Hall. Rolf Harris.

Jimmy Savile.

You really have to ask - who's laughing now?

I don't even recall laughing back then, either.

Bias At The BBC

On Thursday May 22 2014, Britain held a European election, and England held a council election. In that battle, Labour gained new seats, the Liberal Democrats and tories lost heavily, and - among other gains - the Green Party achieved opposition status in a handful of councils across England (a first for the Green Party, who have never managed to hold more than minority party status).

However, no matter how much the parties succeeded or failed, only one thing was on the BBC's mind during election day itself and in the post-electoral afterglow: the rise and rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party, or UKIP.

Led by Toad of Toad Hall, Ukip gained a few votes, but failed to actually secure so much as a single council. However, the BBC's intense, passionate love affair with this politician with the Innsmouth Look would brook no rivals - it was, to the BBC< UKIP all the way. Almost as if the BBC were desperate to report UKIP's victory followed by the swift ousting of Prime Minister David Cameron from Number 10. In Transmetropolitan terms, this would be like The Smiler being replaced by The Beast. UKIP are the UK version of the American Tea Party. Had the Green Party received even so much as a third of the coverage the BBC gave to Farage, I'm sure there would be far more Green Party councillors elected, and even perhaps a few council and European gains by the Greens, whose policies are actually sensible. In the wake of the catastrophically biased reportage by the BBC, this video emerged to commemorate this shift in their policies towards British Tea Party lunacy.

All Fired Up

The Jason Mohammad segment is shortly to begin on BBC Radio Wales.

I've been given the early morning wakeup call by the producer, and they are ready to roll from around 10:00 am. My part in this segment is due to start around 10:30 am.

I am all fired up for this interview, and equally fired up with enthusiasm for the screening of Star Trek Into Darkness later on tonight - and for my quiet meal with my plus one beforehand.

I've got a plus one to the event.

Let me restate that. I have got a plus one to come with me to the event.

With that in mind, here is a shortlist of the Klingon phrases I shall try to sneak in to the interview, among other interviews I shall make this month:-

Set Klingon phrases
I shall be using

What do you want?	nuqneH
What did you say?	nuqjatlh
Star Trek	Hov leng
movie	jabbI''ID
Star Trek Into Darkness	poH mIgh 'el Hov leng
Success!	Qapla'
2013 05 09	cha'SaD wa'maH wej DIS, vagh jar, Hut jaj tera' poH
Star Trek Into Darkness has its premiere today.	DaHjaj wa'DIch poH mIgh 'el Hov leng jabbI''ID 'anglu'
Watch this show as soon as possible	narghpa' 'eb tugh jabbI'IDvam boleghnIS
Do you speak Klingon?	tlhIngan Hol dajatlhlaH'a'
Yes.	HIja'
No.	ghobe'

Wish me success. The phone interview should begin any minute now. Qapla'!

Edit: Interview done.

Two gems from that interview:-

‘The Klingon for “Do you speak Klingon?” is a bit of a tongue twister if you’re not used to it. It’s tlhIngan Hol DajatlhlaH’a’? and if you do understand Klingon, you say HIja’ or HISlaH meaning yes, and if you don’t, you say “Sorry, but I don’t speak Klingon.”’

poH mIgh 'el Hov leng jabbI''ID The movie, "Star Trek Into Darkness"

'Of course the title "Star Trek Into Darkness" has to be poH mIgh 'el Hov leng Star Trek Enters An Evil Time where poH mIgh means evil time, a metaphorical dark rather than a physical dark, since the Enterprise is always travelling into the dark all the time, because that's what space is.'