Saturday, January 25, 2020

The Librarian




Magic was me, or so they said. Thus the Hollywood people went to me to make movies. We created and founded new music and movie companies by the late 1970s, me owning them for being prolific in song compositions. I had money from songs and Star Wars 1977, for example. We created many movies detailing our adventures with our magical abilities and powers. One such movie is "The Librarian" starring Noah Wyle. I thought I should have repositories of all these magical tools and devices I created, even "lightsabers".



What more to satisfy my craving than a library housing these magical artifacts with a blend of archaeology and history, but kept from the public? Hence, this "The Librarian" movie series. I can remember well "The Librarian: Quest for the Spear" and "The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines". But not entirely the third movie "Curse of the Judas Chalice", which we did perhaps in the late 1980s. I think I didn't want to make this movie with this title they chose.

The older folks wanted nothing more than to exhaust my magical powers, but not without a movie made, I probably insisted. :)








Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Star Trek: ENTERPRISE



The Philippine cities were still new or still being built when we made this "Star Trek: Enterprise" TV series during Martial Law Cold War Philippines in the 1970s. Here, I'll write my memories per episode I remember. Some of these episodes were shown to me again in grade school in the 1980s, to be finalized presumably. But don't expect me to outline "warpdrive" technologies here. It's everywhere in the series. I encoded them in one particular Enterprise episode, "visually" in a succession of scenes. Let Google DeepMind find it.

Season 1 

Episode 1:  Broken Bow (1)

The first scene shows a young Jonathan Archer painting a toy shuttle pod with his father, and them talking about warp drives and the Vulcans' helping the humans in space technologies. Seeing these two reminds me of the Joreses being into advanced research.

Then, the scene changes to a big and tall Klingon being chased by unknown aliens, 30 years later in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. There was a crime in the area in real life, so we were there; we shot some scenes for Star Trek Enterprise. Maybe it was here that I was informed we were definitely making this Star Trek TV series. Also the field of crops (sugarcanes or corns) reminds me of fights for land ownerships so the crime might be about it. A colored man (black/Klingon) might had been killed and this scene shows how. But really, really, this scene is to show biologically-enhanced aliens with their weapons. I wonder now if it was real Oklahoma or just in the Philippines. Broken bow? I or someone may had angered a real-life Monarch by breaking her bow and arrow, hence this title of the first episode that will certainly cause reverberations from that time on among military networks of the world.

The scene where Archer and Tucker in a rudimentary shuttlepod approaching and examining the Enterprise in spacedock was not supposed to be shown but I wanted that; it's a start of showing technologies. Thereafter, Jonathan Archer is given "the-go" to command starship Enterprise amidst doubting and reluctant Vulcans, to investigate on this crime against the Klingons. He then chooses on the spot Dr. Phlox, a Denobulan alien, to be the ship's temporary medical doctor. Archer met T'Pol there with the Vulcan consuls. Of course on Enterprise, we have to show the "teleportation device" or "transporter" I co-designed (you have to be a "musician" to understand this), and its first uses by the crew, by Malcom Reed and Travis Mayweather for example. Likewise, Archer went personally to linguist Hoshi Sato while she was teaching a language class to recruit her for Enterprise, or rather, I chose Hoshi but they knew her too!

When it was time for starship Enterprise' inaugural, Archer was formally introduced to command it. T'Pol then joined the crew as an observer for Vulcan matters. They were to transport Klaang, the injured Klingon, to his homeworld Kronos. When Klaang got awake briefly, Hoshi couldn't make up what he's saying, still delirious according to Dr. Phlox. Then suddenly the lights went out, and Klaang was gone! Taken by the alien Sulibans. Probably some resources and materials were gone too. Scenes like this are to happen if a group demands it greatly in the Star Trek universe for their survival in real life, at a price. That's part of their "wartime strategies"; It was Cold War. Otherwise, some innocent people will suffer from their hands. Nevertheless, this scene is a precursor to some intense moments in Enterprise history. The said aliens are serious in enhancing their biology. It is revealed in this episode that these aliens (the Sulibans) receive information and are commanded by an unknown persona from the future, via a hologram, in exchange for those bio-enhancements.

Archer and his team had to find Klaang. They narrowed done to Rigel Ten, a planet where Klaang just visited previously, to verify intel. When they arrived, the scene shows their shuttlepod landing atop a platform or building. I think this building was ours, the Jores-Tamayo's. But when they got inside, Reed was fascinated with some show there, where two dancers perform and snap small butterflies or insects with their tongue. Others might say this dance "show" scene was finalized at Jazul's Compound. Meanwhile, Tucker and T'Pol were looking too, Trip being fooled by the sight of a child being weaned by two different gases to inhale, thinking the child was being suffocated by his own mother. Since I saw a child, I think this place was our home in Tara Street, Masbate City, being started to be "concretized". But later, others wanted a remake or "set up" the same scene at Aurora Blvd., near now Supa. When I was in high school (1988-1992) there was a "Cabal Furniture" store there, you now know why. Then T'Pol and Tucker and Archer and Hoshi encountered and were captured by Sulibans of which one was of "Reyes" family, I think. The Reyes guy answered our call. My purpose was to see some laser gun or "phaser" technologies, ray guns, particularly "stun" guns if there were still remaining, what group has them. Hence, this rendezvous. They were expecting to be paid huge from this exchange. 


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Episode 2:  Broken Bow (2) 


Season 2

Episode 24:  First Flight 

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