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Scissortank
Since: Jun, 2018
5th Apr, 2019 11:29:52 PM
It wasn't A Js Time Travelers was it?
Hello fellow troopers I have a goody for you! I was homeschooled in the late 90s early 2000s and I would go to the library and rent educational tv shows. this is whatremember: a white male highschool student would have a teleporterin his night stand which would beep and teleport him to a space ship which he is the captain of. Then the spaceship would get caught by another “bad” spaceship in a gravity hold. In Star Trek fashion a bad alien humanoid show up on the big screen and would threaten to blow up the ship of the white kid UNLESS he answered 3 or 5 questions about a historical figure such as Ben Franklin etc. the space crew would then teleport the historical figure to the ship to learn about the person. The big bad alien would return and ask the three or four questions about the said historical figure. I remember one of the “bad” question askers to look kind of like a pinhead rip off. This has been bugging me for almost 20 years and I can’t find it. The show is not space cases or voyager. Good luck and thanks