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Subject: [OM] Re: Celebrating Cinco de Mayo
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 15:10:31 -0700
AG Schnozz wrote:
>> la resistencia es vana, usted será assimulated
>>     
>
> I hate to mention this, but the phrase "Resistance is futile" in modern pop 
> culture was first said by the character "Maya" in "Space 1999".
>   
Welllll....

Predated by the Daleks "resistance is useless" in the Dr. Who story 
"Dalek Invasion of Earth" in 1964, 13 years earlier, and other Dalek 
episodes. The writers of Space 1999 probably changed the word to a less 
forthright one to avoid obvious plagiarism.   :-) 

My personal favorite use is by the Vogon guard carrying Arthur and Ford 
to the airlock to toss them out into space, in Hitch Hiker's Guide to 
the Galaxy <http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio2.htm>. HHG 
first used the phrase in the radio series in 1978, slightly after the 
Space 1999 episode.

Given the overlapping people in these English Sci-fi circles, there was 
likely a lot of creative interaction. As to immediate connection, the 
Space 1999 episode with the phrase in it co-starred the Second Dr Who, 
to whom the phrase in it's earlier form would have been familiar. And 
the episode writer later wrote three scripts for Dr. Who.

Moose

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