#the questor tapes

[argentinosaurus]

In three days I will cease to exist, my friend. I must now leave to prepare for that event. You must consider me a device which has failed its programmed function, merely that. I wish I'd learnt more of human kind. Your own concept of your creator. I've seen much to criticise of mankind, but I believe there's even more to admire. Had I more time, I might have even learnt to understand humanity's greatest of all achievements: the ability to feel love for one another. And I thank you for teaching me the meaning, at least, of the word friendship. THE QUESTOR TAPES (1974) DIR. RICHARD A. COLLA

#the questor tapes #robert foxworth #mike farrell #gene roddenberry #misposteos #if you see this: hiya loop !!

[loopnoid]

"is that—" "yaoi of the failed 1974 Gene Roddenberry tv pilot 'The Questor Tapes' starring Mike Farrell? yeah, it is :)"

(1st one is a reference to this Donelan comic btw)

#the questor tapes #and i. dont know how else to tag it. im sure nobody in this entire site follows the fucking character tags for these guys #jerry robinson and fucking. questor questortapes? #first drawing made me realize i draw legs sooo long. why do i do that. im not even into shojo manga #doodles

[remyfire]

#niche meme go #the questor tapes #mike farrell

[pomegranate]

If you want to see Mike Farrell have a homoerotically-charged friendship with an android and run around in 1970s fashion, I’m highly recommending The Questor Tapes (from the creator of Star Trek)

#the questor tapes #mike farrell #robert foxworth #gene roddenberry #legitimately enjoyed this movie a LOT #it’s got hokey special effects and plenty of cheesy moments but it’s a ton of fun #and robert foxworth is really good as an android

[archerism]

with the much-appreciated help of helen @mashbrainrot i found + read the entire novelization of The Questor Tapes, written by Trek alum DC Fontana (available here on internet archive), and i have some. choice snippets to share with you all (in the order they appeared in the book)

(more under the cut:)

(this one ^ made me insane because i quite literally made a joke about jerry doing up questor's tie for him while watching the movie. this and several other moments felt like DC Fontana was somehow in my brain while writing)

(a brother's...Uh-huh)

these and so many other moments in this novelization made me lose my mind. i highly recommend reading it if you enjoyed the questor tapes--it's a quick read, adds a lot of interesting material to the movie, and is overall just an excellent adaptation!!

#i lost my mind slightly and read this entire thing in one 4-hour sitting. Worth it (i am writing this at 2 am.) #the questor tapes #god i love old science fiction so much this was such a delightful time #queued up for the morning <3

[movies-tv-more]

Movie Releases for December 5, 2023

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[ninetimesbluedemo]

I'm now a bitch who owns The Questor Tapes (starring Mike Farrell) on DVD 😎

#proud to be the only one buying DVDs in the year of our lord 2022 #mash #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h 4077 #mike farrell #bj hunnicutt #the questor tapes #questor tapes #gene roddenberry #star trek

[chernobog13]

Ted Cassidy as Isiah, John Saxon as Dylan Hunt, Janet Margolin as Harper-Smythe, Christopher Cary as Baylok.

The main cast of Planet Earth (1974), Gene Roddenberry's second attempt at a science fiction television series: a man awakened after being in suspended animation for 150 years finds himself on an Earth trying to rebuild itself after a devastating world war.

Like Star Trek's two pilots, The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before, this proposed series had two pilot television movies: Genesis ll (1973) and Planet Earth. And like the Star Trek pilots, these two films had the same trappings but almost completely different casts. The main hero, Dylan Hunt, stayed the same: portrayed by Alex Cord in the first film, and John Saxon in the second.

Unfortunately, neither of these telefilms, nor Roddenberry's other two pilots - Spectre and The Questor Tapes - were able to find any love at any of the three networks, and series were never ordered.

Back in the day, long before the Star Trek films and The Next Generation, a lot of us Trekkies liked to think that Genesis ll and Planet Earth fell into the Star Trek timeline, the world war mentioned maybe being the Eugenics War. As far as I know, that speculation was only that, and these two films were never incorporated into the official Star Trek canon.

#Planet Earth #Ted Cassidy #John Saxon #Janet Margolin #Christopher Cary #Gene Roddenberry #science fiction #failed TV pilot

[v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e]

A long update on me reading Star Trek Movie Memories:

I'm reading about all the messy and chaptic atmosphere in trying to revive Star Trek in the 70s, with Roddenberry writing increasingly worst scripts, the whole Phase II project and him being The Worst to work with, it's surprising to me that no one tried to punch Roddenberry in the face.

Even more surprising that Leonard Nimoy wasn't that person.

Like I knew that there was a tense relationship there but man... man. Goes deeper than I thought. For starters, in the 70s Roddenberry tried to launch a project called The Questor Tapes, a TV show about an android with incomplete memory tapes who is searching for his creator and his purpose. Roddenberry personally called Nimoy, wanting him for this project, and this is how this went down:

There was the whole blooper reel thing that I posted about here.

Then Nimoy decided to file a lawsuit against Paramount, and Gene refused to stand up for him, and it further strained their relationship:

But wait, there's more!

When Star Trek Phase II was an ongoing project, the offer they made for Nimoy was that he was going to appear in two out of eleven episodes. He found the whole thing unbeliavable:

And then the whole Phase II thing fell apart, Paramount decided to do a film after all since science fiction was doing pretty well in the movie theaters and the new director, Robert Wise, TMP's director, received feedback from his wife and father in law that there was no way he could do a Star Trek movie without Spock.

(BTW I love the "he and Captain Kirk have such a thing going.")

To bring Nimoy on board, they tried everything. They settled his lawsuit with Paramount. A producer went to see him on stage. And then, they went to see him and presented him with a copy of the script, the same script from Phase II rewritten the same one that did NOT have Spock on it since they had cut him from Phase II, and sort of asked him to well. Imagine Spock inserted in this story.

Love how his decision to be in the movie was a mix of "I trust Robert Wise" and "I can make something for Spock here since Roddenberry obviously isn't going to"

#long post #Star Trek #star trek movie memories #Leonard Nimoy #star trek books #gene roddenberry #Star Trek TOS #TOS #Star Trek: TOS

[oldguydoesstuff]

Gene Roddenberry created the 1974 movie "The Questor Tapes" about a superhuman android, later turned into a novel by legendary Star Trek screenwriter D.C. Fontana.

#star trek #70s tv shows #retro science fiction #1970s movies

[bardengarde]

And if I sat here pondering the questor tapes and what the show would look like if it got picked up, and this mv I'm putting to "running up that hill" in my mind, who would stop me

#I'm normal about that movie #I'm so normal #and i picked what people may think is the most annoying song now but i didn't catch up with stranger things so HA #just like carry on wayward son and supernatural i never watched that show so it doesn't affect me #anyways we're talking about questor #i just need questor and jerry to hold each other #and escape situations together #and either i need to make this mv or get really good at drawing to make an animatic of something

[argentinosaurus]

Everyone say thank you DC Fontana

#literature #the questor tapes #.txt

[mumbojumbo84317]

Happy Birthday to #WalterKoenig, who turned 86 today. He began acting professionally in the mid 1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in #StarTrek (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast Star Trek films. He has also acted in several other series and films including Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971), The Questor Tapes (1974), and Babylon 5 (1993). In addition to his acting career, Koenig has made a career in writing as well and is known for working on Land of the Lost (1974), Family (1976), What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1977) and The Powers of Matthew Star (1982).

#star trek #walter koenig #60s tv #ensign chekov

[remyfire]

#JERRY YOU MUST NOT FEAR TO PROBE DEEPER #CANONICAL LINES #the questor tapes #mike farrell #robert foxworth

[pomegranate]

I can’t stop thinking about this movie

#the questor tapes #mike farrell #robert foxworth #genuinely laughed out loud at the part where the android disarms the guard #sorry you got kidnapped by your creation mike

[archerism]

i feel like i need to spread the gospel of questor tapes to those outside of masholes. which is to say. if you like campy 1970s science fiction, star trek, androids, religious metaphors, mike farrell, quiet homoeroticism, or any combination of the above, you should watch it. The Questor Tapes 1974 Free On Internet Archive baby!!!!!

#the questor tapes #the homoeroticism is very like. it’s . #okay. #grain of salt i think everything is gay but like it’s gay #there’s a scene where mike farrells character quite literally cannot make himself seem attracted to a woman #there’s a scene where he does robo surgery on the android which features the line ‘do not be afraid to probe deeper’ #amongst other things. #also genuinely such a fun 70s scifi thing in general if you like ST:TOS you’ll probably looove it #WATCH IT!!!!! rant over #txt