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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:15 PM
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Lousiest Fictional Planet (not a poll)
My vote goes to Geidi Prime.

Heart plugs? Yuck!

:P
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:56 PM
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1. ditto, can you imagine the superfund cleanup Muad'dib had to order there?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:02 PM
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2. LV-426
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montanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:10 PM
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4. I'm gonna have to second LV-426
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:03 PM
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26. The winner. Bar none.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:04 PM
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3. The Vogon world
worst poetry in the universe, plus they blew up Earth for a piddling little public works project. :eyes:
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:23 PM
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5. Ork n/t
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:25 PM
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6. Omicron Ceti 3.
I mean, am I right? Or what?
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:30 PM
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7. The Happy Spore Planet?
At least on LV-426 aliens explode out of your chest.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:31 PM
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8. Heart plugs?
I read the first three novels and my memory must be failing me. What are heart plugs?
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:34 PM
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10. I'm not sure if it was in the book.
Either way, it was a plug Baron Harkonen had installed in everybody's chest. Pull the plug and all their blood pumped out.

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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:00 PM
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13. David Lynch?
Speaking of abominations...
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:31 PM
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9. Ceti Alpha V
They had pretty cool eels, though. So I guess it's not all that bad.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:08 PM
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15. "You lie! On Ceti Alpha V there was life! A fair chance..."
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Phoonzang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:41 PM
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11. Sha Ka Ree from Star Trek 5
It's ugly, and the only thing on it is a wannabe god that runs around shooting lighting out of his eyes screaming "YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!".
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:09 PM
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16. What, like Soulja Boy?
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Phoonzang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:25 PM
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17. You know....I never made the connection.
Who would have thought that Soulja Boy was such a huge nerd. :7
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:02 PM
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25. DO YOU HAVE A STAR-SHIP??????????
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:10 PM
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27. Why.......does........God need a ......star....ship?

BONES: Damn it Jim. I'm a doctor, not a director! I can't save this horrible plot.
KIRK: Bones, you have to ....do...something. These...rogue....Vulcans...have....hijacked.....my franchise....er...my ship!!
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:14 PM
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28. SHATNER: I think we need more shots of Kirk scaling Devil's Peak...
and let's make sure to get some more shots of his sweet, sweet ass.

Letting Shatner direct...worst idea ever. Ever.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:17 AM
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58. How about a pushing-60-Uhura doing a fan dance?
I mean, had it been TOS, that would have been a totally different story.
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:42 PM
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12. The planet where the Robinson's lived the first season
I mean what a pain in the arse place, vegetables that grow out of control and attack, an orbit you can't predict, all sorts of unhelpful riff-raff dropping by.

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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:59 PM
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70. Sounds like my old neighborhood.
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Bryan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:01 PM
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14. The planet Vulcan
The Science Academy tour is pretty cool, but downtown Vulcan City is totally dead. The strip clubs are topless-only, Starbucks is the only place to get coffee, and the voters in the suburbs keep shooting down referendum bond issues to improve the crappy bus system.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:57 PM
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18. Tralfamador: Completely useless unless you're in the tiny bubble with Montana Wildhack.
Edited on Tue Jul-15-08 03:57 PM by LeftinOH
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:03 PM
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43. but if you're in the bubble
it ain't bad
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:47 PM
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19. Pandora from "The Jesus Incident".......
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 07:32 PM
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21. I love the books from that particular F Herbert 'universe'.
:thumbsup:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:48 PM
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20. That one the Sulaban come from
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east texas lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 08:41 PM
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22. Dosadi , another Frank Herbert world.
When you lose a case in court, your lawyer(or "legume") and you both die.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 08:43 PM
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23. Alderaan.
Well, now, anyway.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:22 PM
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50. True enough. Being blown to smithereens sucks. nt
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 08:49 PM
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24. Krypton
In the meantime, though it had for now survived the war, Krypton was scarred deeply by it.
The formerly lush garden world was burned and blasted, left mostly a lifeless desert.
In direct contrast to the society that had existed prior to the Clone Wars, a sterile,
emotionally dead civilization emerged. The population became isolated from one another,
living in widely separated technological citadels and shunning all personal, physical contact.
Procreation would then become a matter of selecting compatible genetic material which
would then be placed within an artificial womb called a "birthing matrix."
Any attempt to contact other worlds was forbidden, and the planetary government
maintained an isolationist stance, forbidding space exploration of any kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton_(comics)
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:22 PM
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29. From Harry Harrison's Deathworld trilogy
the planet Pyrrus

Telepathic plants and animals bent on killing the enemy/invaders, anyone? :scared:
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AlGore-08.com Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:44 PM
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30. Earth's Moon from "Space 1999" - - that puppy defied the laws of physics!
It just frickin' zipped along from inhabited planet to inhabited planet every week.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 11:45 PM
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53. But those purple-haired moonbabes were pretty cool
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:58 PM
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31. Trantor...
The seat of the empire in Asimov's "Foundation" series.

It's enough to make you think of the Bush administration!
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:08 PM
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32. I suspect that Star Wars' Coruscant was based on Trantor.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:09 PM
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33. That thought has crossed my mind as well
When I saw it in the movie, I remember thinking that was just how I had imagined Trantor.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:30 PM
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35. Coruscant was thought up long before the prequels.
But obviously long after Trantor. :P
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:16 PM
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34. Althea...the planet David Bowie fell ......
to Earth from......


Tikki
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:41 PM
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36. Psychlo
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:56 PM
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37. Planet Hell, which was what the Trek crew called the eerie, barren set used for
so many away missions.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:59 PM
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38. The planets male "prophets" of the cult of Mormonism "rule" after they die.
NT!

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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 02:58 PM
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40. Those planets sound pretty cool, actually
You get to be God of your own planet and have celestial sex for eternity with as many goddess wives as you want. What could be better than that.

Actually Mormon theology explains a lot about why this world is so fucked up right now. Since Mormons believe that every time a baby is born on earth, a spirit baby is born in Heaven, and given that babies are born every second on earth, that would mean that Elohim our Heavenly Father is getting celestially laid 24/7.

No wonder He doesn't have time to answer prayers! O8)
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:19 PM
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47. Who's name does Elohim call out at the, uh, climactic moment?
Or does he just talk to himself?
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:21 PM
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48. At least they get to have sex with their celestial mate,
and they can decorate their respective planet anyway they want.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 11:03 PM
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39. Dragon's Egg ... unless you like the pressure of living on a neutron star.
Edited on Tue Jul-15-08 11:13 PM by qnr
Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg

Edit: Corrected link due to apostrophe
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 03:27 PM
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41. Zeist
(no, not the one in Holland) from the Highlander II movie.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:07 PM
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42. Yeah, I'd hate to be from a planet that spawns nothing but badly convoluted plot,
horrific writing, and bad acting.

:P
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 04:38 AM
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56. You so way beat me to it!
I must concur and delete my dupe.:D
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:04 PM
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44. Skaro
Edited on Thu Jul-17-08 10:04 PM by realisticphish
(big surprise, looking at my avatar)
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:23 AM
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60. What, just 'cause it's an irradiated wasteland populated by mutants
with two warring factions who won't let up for a moment, even though it means their inevitable destruction...

or because it's home to the Daleks after the Kaleds and Thals are all gone?

:P
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 01:35 PM
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66. well, if it's the former
than you're irradiated, on a wasteland planet. the latter, than you're exterminated. Either one kind of sucks :D
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:44 PM
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69. I'd rather be irradiated than exterminated.
But not by a big margin. :P
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 07:45 AM
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71. true
you never know, you might grow something useful, like an extra foot :shrug:
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:17 PM
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45. Crematoria
Don't forget your SPF 5000!
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:18 PM
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46. Tattooine. It's like Las Vegas without....well, anything. nt
Edited on Thu Jul-17-08 10:19 PM by mycritters2
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 03:21 PM
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68. In other words, it's like Phoenix.
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BlueDissenter Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:21 PM
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49. How about.....
Miranda?

You either die or become a cannibal.

http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/Miranda
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 10:24 PM
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51. Natoo - Stargate SG-1
prison planet established by Sokhar as a literal hell for political enemies.
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jobendorfer Donating Member (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 11:38 PM
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52. Blodgett
Where the most popular chewing gum is called "cud", and yes, they really chew it.
Followed possibly by Phigerinadon II, but I'm reaching into the wayback machine here.

J.
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behave Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 04:31 AM
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54. space family robinson ditched on really drab looking planet
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 04:36 AM
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55. dupe
Edited on Fri Jul-18-08 04:38 AM by GoPsUx
.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:02 AM
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57. that planet from Futurama with the bouncing balls
We demand bouncing, followed by rolling, followed by bouncing of the third variety...
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:22 AM
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59. I would not want to live on the Forest Moon of Endor
Those Ewoks were damn annoying as hell - would not want a bunch of Teddy Bears as my neighbors!
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:24 AM
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61. So live near a Gorax instead.
Won't be many ewoks about. :P
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:29 AM
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62. But those tree villages kick ass!
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 10:01 AM
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64. But they're so *cuuuuuuute*!
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 09:36 AM
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63. Horuz, aka Despayre
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Despayre

It was covered by swamps and jungle, filled with criminals, and ravaged by vicious insects and killer reptiles. Basically, it's the Louisiana of the galaxy far, far, away.

Well, it was, that is. Grand Moff Tarkin decided to use it for target practice.


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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 10:31 AM
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65. My son made up a planet and....
the indigenous race on it when he was about 7 years old..

The Nardox from the planet Piroo..

But this is amazing not lousy...
Oh, and my son was the planet's super hero Artlon...


Tikki :)

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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 02:27 PM
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67. Vendicar...
...and the other planet that was waging the theoretical war in Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon."
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-19-08 08:00 AM
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72. Wow. I have no opinion whatsoever.
I haven't read science fiction since I was a preteen and I only watched the first Star Wars.
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