XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: rgorman@telusplanet.net   
      
   On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:58:17 GMT, "Bo Raxo"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   >news:42497484.186298718@news.telusplanet.net...   
   >> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:59:27 GMT, "Bo Raxo"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> >Something where the ships don't all look like the cutting edge of   
   >design -   
   >> >circa 1966.  Something where the space battles aren't utterly ridiculous   
   >in   
   >> >their proximity,   
   >>   
   >> Space battles are close proximity so both ships can be on screen.   
   >   
   >   
   >So find a more imaginative way to tell the story.  Why not a space battle   
   >that's a cat and mouse game that stretches for days, or weeks?   
      
   Balance of Terror?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >> >   
   >> >How about something really futuristic?  That boldly and imaginatively   
   >takes   
   >> >what we know currently about such subjects as genetics, nanotech,   
   >computing   
   >> >and a hundred other technologies, and extrapolates to come up with   
   >something   
   >> >that makes us sit up and go, wow!   
   >>   
   >> In short, Andromeda.  Well, Wolf's Andromeda.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Do you mean the syndicated series Andromeda,   
      
   Yes.   
      
   >   
   >> >Instead of trying to ape the past (or, even worse, set an entire series   
   >in   
   >> >it), how about getting unburied from the backstory and getting back to   
   >what   
   >> >made people watch the original in the first place?  How about taking some   
   >of   
   >> >the ethical dilemmas technology is already posing today - from cloning to   
   >> >the digital divide - and place them in a futuristic setting, to examine   
   >the   
   >> >human condition?   
   >>   
   >> Century City.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Don't know what you're referring to.  Enlighten me, other than BSG I'm   
   >starving for some quality sci-fi on tv.   
      
   Century City was a science fiction lawyer show which dealt with the   
   ethical dilemmas of future technology, questions like "when you have   
   the technology to keep 24/7 surveillance on your teenager, is it cruel   
   to be constantly monitoring them?" and "should a doctor be sued for   
   not telling prospective parents that the embryo they are choosing has   
   been identified by genetic screenings to be likely to grow up   
   homosexual.", or for that matter "should a person be allowed to clone   
   theirself so they can have a kid just like them"  It was a brilliant   
   flop, cancelled after only six episodes.   
      
   The thing is, Star Trek has done the cloning issue multiple times, and   
   the AI issue, and the fear of self reproducing nanotech issue...   
      
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