{"id":5001,"date":"2013-06-12T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:50:28","slug":"raumpatrouille-space-patrol-orion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5001","title":{"rendered":"Raumpatrouille [Space Patrol Orion]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"13-06-12<\/a>Raumpa\u00adtrouille \u2013 Die phan\u00adtastis\u00adchen Aben\u00adteuer des Raum\u00adschiffes Ori\u00adon<\/i><\/b> [known in Eng\u00adlish as Space Patrol Ori\u00adon<\/i>] was a Ger\u00adman sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion series that pre\u00admiered the same week that Star Trek<\/i> did in North Amer\u00adi\u00adca. It had a sim\u00adi\u00adlar premise \u2014 an ensem\u00adble dra\u00adma in which the crew of a space ser\u00advice met up with var\u00adi\u00adous alien per\u00adils. Star Trek<\/em> was not to be broad\u00adcast in Ger\u00admany for sev\u00ader\u00adal years to come, and there is no indi\u00adca\u00adtion that either pro\u00adduc\u00adtion was aware of the oth\u00ader, but there are a num\u00adber of remark\u00adable sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties. In both cas\u00ades, there was an inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal crew and a future in which human\u00adi\u00adty is polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly uni\u00adfied, at peace, and explor\u00ading space.  But the Ori\u00adon is not near\u00adly as much of a hap\u00adpy fam\u00adi\u00adly as the Enter\u00adprise: the crew seems to be con\u00adstant\u00adly bick\u00ader\u00ading and turn\u00ading on each oth\u00ader, espe\u00adcial\u00adly Cap\u00adtain Cliff McLane (Diet\u00admar Sch\u00f6n\u00adherr) and Secu\u00adri\u00adty Offi\u00adcer Tama\u00adra Jag\u00adellovsk (Eva Pflug). Cap\u00adtain McLane is usu\u00adal\u00adly dis\u00adobey\u00ading orders from above, while out\u00adwit\u00adting the neme\u00adsis aliens called \u201cfrogs\u201d, and get\u00adting him\u00adself and his crew rep\u00adri\u00admand\u00aded in every episode. Between adven\u00adtures, the crew relax in a dis\u00adco, in the Space Patrol\u2019s under\u00adsea head\u00adquar\u00adters. There, they drink heav\u00adi\u00adly, attempt to seduce each oth\u00ader, and dance bizarre dances devised by some very strange stu\u00addio chore\u00ado\u00adg\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader. Only sev\u00aden episodes were made, but the show made a tremen\u00addous impres\u00adsion on a gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of Ger\u00adman kids, and a fan-base was built that was able to sup\u00adport 145 nov\u00adel\u00adiza\u00adtions. Pre\u00adsum\u00adably the pro\u00adduc\u00adtion costs were unsus\u00adtain\u00adable. At any rate, in Ger\u00admany, the series pro\u00adduced much the same fan loy\u00adal\u00adty and long-term nos\u00adtal\u00adgia that Star Trek<\/em> did else\u00adwhere. Both shows tapped into the same zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

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Raumpa\u00adtrouille <\/i> com\u00adpares quite favourably with Star Trek<\/em>. The sets were more elab\u00ado\u00adrate, and more imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive. The robot designs, for instance, were real\u00adly cool. The act\u00ading, as far as I can tell fil\u00adtered through trans\u00adla\u00adtion, was as good. There was a seri\u00adous attempt to equip it with back-sto\u00adry, a spec\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtive soci\u00adety, and plau\u00adsi\u00adble sci\u00adence. It was more con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal \u201cspace opera\u201d in that it focused more on space bat\u00adtles than did Star Trek<\/i>. The series used some quite imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive elec\u00adtron\u00adic music by com\u00adpos\u00ader Peter Thomas, as well as some quick-tem\u00adpo jazz, in con\u00adtrast to Star Trek<\/em>\u2019s plush orches\u00adtral stuff. The women, of course, wore those 1960\u2019s hair\u00addos that now look far more alien than they did at the time.<\/p>\n

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Raumpa\u00adtrouille \u2013 Die phan\u00adtastis\u00adchen Aben\u00adteuer des Raum\u00adschiffes Ori\u00adon [known in Eng\u00adlish as Space Patrol Ori\u00adon] was a Ger\u00adman sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion series that pre\u00admiered the same week that Star Trek did in North Amer\u00adi\u00adca. It had a sim\u00adi\u00adlar premise \u2014 an ensemble \u2026<\/p>\n

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