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Test Your Geekdom, Vol III: Test Your Geekdom, Vol III: Openers


Links attached for those with video/audio, if you need a reminder.

1: “Space: the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of….”

Star Trek, Opening Narration

2: “There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission”

The Outer Limits, Opening Narration

3: “The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap Ranger 3 and its pilot…”

Buck Rogers, Opening Narration

4: “… Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

Second sentence in the opening line of every Wheel of Time book

5: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war…”

Warhammer 40k, typically written on the cover or title page of every rule book, novel, etc.

6: "You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop: __________”

The Twilight Zone
7: “No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was Being Watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's”

War of the Worlds, original radio opening

8: “Gentlemen.....we can rebuild him...”

The Six Million Dollar Man
9: “In the not-too-distant future -- Next Sunday, A.D. -- There was a guy named ______, Not too different than you or me.”

Opening song lyrics for the first few seasons of Mystery Science Theatre 3000
10: "Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime..."

Quantum Leap
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
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