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    Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer

    Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck

    The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time

    Ron Moore's VR Masterpiece Virtuality Finally Gets An Airdate

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    Image of silentstriderm silentstriderm
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    Real holographic simulated evil Lincoln is back!!!
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    The Sex Room Will Not Be Telivised
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    This is seriously cool stuff. I love that folks are working on bringing more of our senses into media play. It'll be interesting to see how they eventually come up with electronically induced smell, taste, and grumbling stomach.
    The other cool thing about this technology? The pitter-patter of tiny elephant feet running around on the palm of your hand.
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    Image of jbq jbq
    08/07/09

    @Boas_MC: Funny you should say "palm", I was seriously thinking Jim Belushi's Wild Palms as the next step here.
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    08/07/09

    @jbq: Totally. Bring on the Edwardian collars!
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    Image of JamalPullus JamalPullus
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    That pic is from Voyager's holodeck and not from the Enterprise.
    Thats Captain Gateway and the hologram Doctor from Voyager.
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    evildead1971 approved this comment JamalPullus was starred JamalPullus was unstarred
    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/07/09

    @JamalPullus: nerd alert!
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/07/09

    @evildead1971: Double Nerd Attempt:
    Unless I am mistaken, that is the episode where they had removed memories from The Dr because he chose to save Harry instead of another crewmember because he knew and liked Harry - since there was no medical reason to decide which to save. Guilt was driving him crazy.
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    evildead1971 promoted this comment HalOfBorg was starred HalOfBorg was unstarred
    Image of diverguy diverguy
    08/07/09

    @JamalPullus:
    That would be Capt. Janeway... not Gateway.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/07/09

    @HalOfBorg: what with all the star trek nerds here?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/07/09

    @evildead1971: This is the only place we have . . .
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    Image of freakout freakout
    08/08/09

    @HalOfBorg: Close, but it's actually from Distant Origin, that cool episode from the third season where the evolved dinosaurs were studying the Voyager crew.
    You can tell by Janeway's hairstyle. Ponytail was S3.
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/08/09

    @freakout: BOOOM! And the bad old Borg goes down in flames once again!
    EEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... splat.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    ok, i'm setting my cryogenic tube for 1,000 years.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    Oh come on! We know where this is going... SEX!!!
    BTW screw (figuratively) holograms!!!! Where's my sexbot?
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    08/07/09

    @ManchuCandidate: for ages when man has made a scientific discovery the first question has been: "can i fuck it?"
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    Hopefully android technology will advance quicker than tactile holography technology, so that when Moriarty does show up, we'll be able to call upon Commander Data.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/07/09

    @atrus123: No! We need to shut down android research. Moriarty would never have been a problem if Pulaski hadn’t dared the computer to make a worthy competitor for Data. What we need is a Wesley Crusher to fix all our problems.
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    08/07/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Damn, you're right. Save us Wil Wheaton!
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    Image of Newton's Law Newton's Law
    08/07/09

    @atrus123: Wow, I don't know which is worse, the fact that you guys are talking about episodes from TNG season 2, or the fact that I know that.
    No, what I'm most afraid of is Minuet, not Moriarty. I would never leave the thing.
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    Anekanta promoted this comment Newton's Law was starred Newton's Law was unstarred
    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/07/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Nerd Alert once again - it was Geordi La Forge (who had been playing Dr Watson) who asked the computer to create a villain who could defeat Data.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/07/09

    @HalOfBorg: You're right! In my defense, Geordi never would have done it if Pulaski hasn't egged him on.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/07/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I'm good with blaming all bad things on Pulaski.
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/08/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Yeh, probably true.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    07/01/09

    In reply to Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck
    I'd heard that the new Nintendo DS had some interesting new features, but never imagined that it could induce scary homoerotic interludes.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    In reply to Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck
    The second clip will not play for me. But I imagine that the at one point the captain says, "Make my sleeves poofier!"

    To which the stalwart engineer, Hunny, replies, "Sajnálom, kapitány, de az ujjú nem veheti meg!"
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Funny thing, my first attempt to run that line through Google Translate the word "sleeve" came out as Hungarian for "vagina". That would be very different scene indeed.


    We still have quite some ways to go before the Universal Translator is ready.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Bwa ha ha ha! The second clip is playing fine for me, and I'm on a crappy copy of Firefox on an ancient PC. Let me know if it's still not playing. The music, and the bathtub chick, are pretty great.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Ez jó! Fabio...in Space! If Virtuality was like this FOX wouldn't have cancelled it.
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    Image of InvaderPhlegm InvaderPhlegm
    07/01/09

    @Grey_Area: You are so true.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
    Sorry, but the award for all time worst holodeck episode of anything has to go to the craptacular 3rd Season episode of Forever Knight "The Games Vampires Play," where Nick Knight has to fight his own vampiness by entering into a VR vampire game to track down a murderess game designer, who has left various glowie clues that correspond to clues in real-life locations that appear in the game.... and... oh... it's not even worth trying to explain it.


    Trust me, it's just bad.


    Mind you, the show didn't have far to fall, especially not during it's final season, but throw together a retarded plot, badly oversaturated Quantel special effect, and utter nonsense technobabble, and you've got a perfect storm of cyber-suck:


    [www.macfran.com]

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
    Has everyone forgotten on the TV series Harsh Realm? It was set entirely in a virtual world, and it was so terrible that it was canceled after just a few episodes. I believe it was a Chris Carter production -he did it after Millennium flopped.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/03/09

    @Annalee Newitz: A nightmare, Harsh Realm was. Remember when we all though Chris Carter was gonna father a new generation of awesome sci-fi entertainment?


    Yeah, me neither.

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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
    I am being 100% serious with this message:


    I wish there had been a longer run of Cleopatra 2525.


    There, I said it, my shame it laid bare for you all.

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/03/09

    @dirtybacon: /finger wag
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    Image of Slovenly Muse Slovenly Muse
    06/02/09

    In reply to The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
    ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?! I loved that show! It occasionally scared the crap out of me as a kid, but I just kept on coming back! I watched VR Troopers for a while, too, but my heart belonged to the Power Rangers. (Speaking of, there MUST be a godawful holodeck episode of PR. If there's a cheesy, cliched, kid-friendly storyline to be told, PR has used it at least three times.)
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    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    06/02/09

    In reply to The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
    I for one enjoy the Fistful of Datas episode. Patrick Stewart directed it. And the original script was even cooler.
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    06/02/09

    @Zidel333: where might someone acquire said script if someone had the desire to acquire it?
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    Byronotron was starred Byronotron was unstarred
    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    06/02/09

    @Byronotron: Looks like you can find more info from the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion book, linked below. An actual script however...? Begging the big wigs from Memory Alpha, or the Star Trek Auction: It's a Wrap! I have no idea.


    [memory-alpha.org]


    refs: [memory-alpha.org])#Production

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/03/09

    @Zidel333: I have a copy of the second edition of the Companion that I bought for my Star Trek TNG class in College. It helped a lot and has a lot of info. I personally like any episode that let Brent Spiner do a character. I did feel the characters bore resemblance to his character on Night Court:
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/03/09

    @RideMyDiscoStick?_GitEmSteveDave: Also:
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    Image of Erinaceus Erinaceus
    06/02/09

    In reply to The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
    Oh, and "Are You Afraid of the Dark" was the greatest thing ever. Sure, it was cheesy and unquestionably for kids, but it did start the career of Jewel Staite, as well as the trope of putting her in borderline-fetishistic situations (I remember in one episode she was a struggling artist trapped in a painting).
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    06/03/09

    @Erinaceus:
    Does her appearance on Dead Like Me count as borderline-fetishistic, or is that actually well past said border?
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    Image of Erinaceus Erinaceus
    06/03/09

    @Purple Dave: Y'know, I had not actually seen her appearance on "Dead Like Me", for I never managed to actually have the chance to catch a single episode of it. Your response prompted me to Google it, and after seeing her appearance for myself, my answer is...


    ... wonderfully past said border!

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    06/03/09

    @Erinaceus:
    Now, did you just see still photos, or did you catch video of what actually happened in the closet?
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    Image of Erinaceus Erinaceus
    06/03/09

    @Purple Dave: I saw the video.


    "I'm a Reapeerrrrrrrrrr!"

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    06/04/09

    @Erinaceus:
    Yeah, that was one of the funniest moments in the series, even though it does seem to break with established canon.
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