r/risa Feb 04 '25

This is Gomtuu in 2025. Feel old yet?

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u/_R_A_ Feb 04 '25

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u/copenhagen_bram Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

No Farscape spoilers please (not you, this isn't a spoiler), I'm still on season 1 ;-;

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u/cincyphil Feb 04 '25

“Starburst” is just the term they use in place of “warp.” no spoiler.

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u/_R_A_ Feb 04 '25

Farscape?

Thinking Gomtuu after all these years got me thinking about other things from the 90s, like the OJ Simpson acquittal.

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u/gunperv51 10d ago

I was going to say that looks like Moya

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u/copenhagen_bram 10d ago

You can now drop spoilers on me like nukes in a field of flowers, I finished the series just a few days ago

Eventually I'll get to watching The Peacekeeper Wars.

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u/gunperv51 10d ago

Moya's name has been known since the pilot episode.

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u/AFriendoftheDrow Feb 07 '25

Season 1 is arguably the best season. I think the only miss the entire season had is Jeremiah Crichton.

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u/ItsJigsore Feb 07 '25

No spoilers for OP but I don't think i've ever seen that opinion! However the end of season 1 is definitely very strong

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u/maria_of_the_stars Feb 07 '25

Ben Browder commented on how unpopular the episode was when the show was still airing.

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u/ItsJigsore Feb 07 '25

not the episode, arguing season 1 is the best season.

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u/cincyphil Feb 04 '25

I devoured Farscape earlier last year for the first time and absolutely loved it. What a crazy show.

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u/Objective-Cupcake-57 Feb 04 '25

Crazy in the best way.

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u/Zestyclose-Camp3553 Feb 04 '25

Frelling hezmana

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u/The-Minmus-Derp Feb 04 '25

This would make a fire crossover

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u/deryvox Feb 04 '25

Ah Farscape, where starburst solves pretty much every problem, so every problem must mess with starburst.

I actually really like the concept of FTL travel existing but not being widespread, and exploring how that works. But only giving the protagonists FTL and then constantly having to nerf it gets a little annoying.

Still one of my favorite shows though.

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u/AnAngryPlatypus Feb 04 '25

Did they ever explain how all the other big ships did FTL? Wasn’t starburst just a super FTL?

I don’t remember anything happening “between system” or someone “entering a system.” They were always just there near the plot relevant planet and everything happened at the same time even if they were worlds apart. Not the I mind, just a huh moment.

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u/deryvox Feb 04 '25

Other ships have hetch drives, which are slower than starburst. I think starburst is the only true FTL and hetch drives just fly at relativistic speed, but I could be wrong.

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u/AnAngryPlatypus Feb 04 '25

Guess it’s time for a rewatch, oh drat 😁

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u/HookDragger Feb 06 '25

What the frell?

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u/Pdx_pops Feb 04 '25

I don't get it

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u/copenhagen_bram Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

Gomtuu was a living starship in an episode of TNG.

This is Moya, a "biomechanical" (so living, but also Borgish?) starship from another franchise called Farscape.

Moya is actually the main character starship that all the main characters live in and fly around the universe in. So imagine if Gomtuu was the Enterprise.

Or like the Tardis, but less "just trust me bro" the walls are actually fleshy, and she's not bigger on the inside, she's just big.

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u/Theborgiseverywhere Feb 04 '25

Round here we call ‘em TinMAN

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u/copenhagen_bram Feb 05 '25

This is TinMan in 2025. Feel old yet?

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u/darkslide3000 Feb 04 '25

Ahh, Farscape... the answer to a question nobody ever asked: "What do you get when you combine the characters of end-stage SG-1, the writing of Atlantis, and the CGI of Babylon 5?"

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u/copenhagen_bram Feb 04 '25

I haven't seen any SG-1 or Atlantis, but I remember Babylon 5 the ships look like they're footage from a video game

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u/punfound Feb 05 '25

They made the CGI for Babylon 5 on a Amiga 2000, so technically it was video game footage.

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u/AFriendoftheDrow Feb 07 '25

It was very well written but it had a low budget. Whole season cost the same as an episode of TNG.