Life and Death Situations
Feb. 11th, 2008 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogIt's only fitting that I learned of one of these stories, and of a close connection to the other, through my own Friendspage here. Both combine the bitter with the sweet, as most days' journeys through this page do.
Roy Scheider, 1932-2008
Or, 2047, depending on your point of view.
Though today's obits all highlighted his much more famous turn in Jaws, I was pleased to see how many of you shared my more recent and potent memory of him as Captain Nathan Bridger of the original incarnation of seaQuest. It's not a stretch for me to say that, had he not been part of that NBC effort, I might not be writing here today. Through my late-to-the-party acquisition of that fandom, I met several now and former LJ Friends, with whom I joined, on Sunday nights on and off (sometimes "on" and "off" during the same Sunday night:P), in writing and editing one of the earliest and still most respected of online Webseries efforts, seaQuest 2047.
Just as the writers jumped the boat 15 years into the future on the original TV version, we propelled it another 15 years ahead (much more plausibly, I might add), adding a host of new and original characters to a few carried over from one or both of the televised incarnations.
It gives one pause to think that, had we rejected Season Three as noncanonical bullshit and instead gone 15 years into the past, we'd have set our series in 2002. Somehow, the world of the UEO doesn't seem that far away now that we're six years "later" than that.
The crew now salutes Bridger, along with the other dear departed performers of Lucas Wolenczak, Chief Crocker, and, presumably, Darwin.
----
I'd heard the other news of the day, oh boy- the freakish neck injury of a visiting Florida hockey player at yesterday's Sabres game.
What I did not know, until moments ago, is that a Friend of this page- among both the oldest (in tenure) and youngest (in age)- was one of the two on-ice EMTs who acted quickly and professionally to help save this man's life.
Thanks to HIPCHECK or whatever the damn thing's called, she could provide no details on the procedures beyond what was already on the news. Still, I offer her, her partner and the entire medical staff a tip of the helmet for doing damn good work under immense stress. You did Buffalo proud:)
Roy Scheider, 1932-2008
Or, 2047, depending on your point of view.
Though today's obits all highlighted his much more famous turn in Jaws, I was pleased to see how many of you shared my more recent and potent memory of him as Captain Nathan Bridger of the original incarnation of seaQuest. It's not a stretch for me to say that, had he not been part of that NBC effort, I might not be writing here today. Through my late-to-the-party acquisition of that fandom, I met several now and former LJ Friends, with whom I joined, on Sunday nights on and off (sometimes "on" and "off" during the same Sunday night:P), in writing and editing one of the earliest and still most respected of online Webseries efforts, seaQuest 2047.
Just as the writers jumped the boat 15 years into the future on the original TV version, we propelled it another 15 years ahead (much more plausibly, I might add), adding a host of new and original characters to a few carried over from one or both of the televised incarnations.
It gives one pause to think that, had we rejected Season Three as noncanonical bullshit and instead gone 15 years into the past, we'd have set our series in 2002. Somehow, the world of the UEO doesn't seem that far away now that we're six years "later" than that.
The crew now salutes Bridger, along with the other dear departed performers of Lucas Wolenczak, Chief Crocker, and, presumably, Darwin.
----
I'd heard the other news of the day, oh boy- the freakish neck injury of a visiting Florida hockey player at yesterday's Sabres game.
What I did not know, until moments ago, is that a Friend of this page- among both the oldest (in tenure) and youngest (in age)- was one of the two on-ice EMTs who acted quickly and professionally to help save this man's life.
Thanks to HIPCHECK or whatever the damn thing's called, she could provide no details on the procedures beyond what was already on the news. Still, I offer her, her partner and the entire medical staff a tip of the helmet for doing damn good work under immense stress. You did Buffalo proud:)