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more about #virtualworlds more comments → lightninglouie: I'd heard that the new Nintendo DS had some interesting new features, but never imagined that it could induce scary homoerotic interludes. more » Grey_Area: 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,... more » twophrasebark: Charlie Jane, did you ask Ron why he seems to have become a lot more like Brannon Braga, his old writing partner (i.e. kind of in love with himself)? more » twophrasebark: I think he's saying: In the Matrix, you think you're eating a steak and it's exactly like eating a steak, but you're not. In the Holodeck, you're eati... more » seefive: Clea Duvall never ages... ...or maybe has the whole Benjamin Button thing going on. more » bluehinter: So, Virtuality is basically "locked into a terrible service plan and forced to use buggy software that was never properly Beta tested... In space!!!" ... more » Mark 2000: I didn't actually see anything in what he said that makes the two different. One is a room and one is a headset, i guess was the big one. But otherwis... more » Bill-Lee: Yeah...It's completely different in the way morphine is different than heroin. more » alphanumeric1971: I just want to know when we went from calling him "Mister Ronald D. Moore" to just "Ron Moore." more » alphanumeric1971: Why the hell would I want to do that? I would want a better model than the one I'm stuck with now!!! more » Robert Hewitt Wolfe: I cashed a residuals check for "A Fistful of Datas" the other day. Please continue watching it and debating its horribleness for all eternity. Thanks!... more » Grey_Area: I remember liking Terminal Cafe by Ian McDonald, but it's been a long time since I read it. more » Rainbucket: I'm sorry that Outrageous Okona was spared, just because I've longed to see that episode eviscerated here. But you could do a whole other article list... more » BrandonSweet: In Hardwired, it's actually the character Reno, not Cowboy, who gets killed while interfaced and whose consciousness lives on in cyberspace. His elect... more » octaslash: No Dollhouse? more » -
#foundfootage
Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck
Melinda Snodgrass is best known for writing the Star Trek episode where Data's personhood gets put on trial. But in the mid-1990s, she created Star Command, which took Trek's holodeck much, much further. Just check out this holo-torture sequence. Edgy! More » -
#virtuality
How Is Virtuality Different Than Star Trek's Holodeck?
When we got a chance to take part in a conference call with Ronald D. Moore about Virtuality, there was only one question we wanted to ask him: How is this new show different from Star Trek's holodeck episodes?
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#contest
Win Fame and Prizes in Our Scifi Sims Contest
With The Sims 3 hitting the shelves, it's time to take your avatars to the place they've always belonged: outer space. Or maybe inner space. We want you to turn your Sims games into science fiction masterpieces and win prizes. More » -
#exclusive
Discover The Secrets Of Ron Moore's 10-Year Space Probe
Ronald D. Moore's long-awaited Virtuality airs June 26, and we've got exclusive concept art showing the inner workings of the deep-space probe Phaeton and its various modules — including a super-detailed diagram explaining the physics of the ship. More » -
#weirdscience
Scientists Create Method Of Uploading Your Entire Body To A Computer
Not simply content with developing technology to one day allow you to upload your brain, scientists are working to upload and re-create your entire anatomy into a computer. Who needs this "real life" stuff, anyway? More » -
#triviagasm
Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
Is there life after death? Maybe, if you're wired. After all, death is just a failure of storage media. Science fiction is full of people who've died in meatspace, only to live on in cyberspace. Here's our inventory of cyber-Heaven. More » -
#triviagasm
6 More Heroes Who Might Still Be Trapped In Virtual Reality
Yesterday, we looked at six characters who seemingly managed to escape virtual prisons. Now, we'll make it an even dozen as we examine another sextet of science fiction heroes that may or may not still be stuck inside their own minds. Spoilers!
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#multiversevacation
Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
As summer brings thoughts of vacation, why not consider stopping off on one of the many Parallel Earths of science fiction? There's an infinite number of possibilities available to you - and here are some of our favorites. More » -
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#offline
Travel Inside The Horrifying Mind Of A Cyborg Killer, In "Offline"
A rogue scientist goes inside the mind of a cyber-soldier to try and reprogram him and redeem his humanity, in the independent film Offline, from director Matthew Santoro. The trailer, featuring stark dystopian visuals and nightmarish distortions, is below. More » -
#triviagasm
6 Characters Who Escaped Virtual Prisons... Or Did They?
It's the ultimate test for any hero: finding yourself trapped in a prison of the mind, where you can no longer tell the difference between reality and falsehood. Here are six science-fiction heroes who escaped from virtual reality...probably. Spoilers ahead!
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#startrek
Star Trek's Absolute Worst Holodeck Adventures
Star Trek used to be exploring strange new worlds, but at some point it turned into a never-ending parade of terrible holographic trifles. Here are the ten absolute worst. More » -
#virtualworlds
7 Failed Virtual Reality Technologies
There was a time when people were calling home virtual reality the wave of the future. Now most people just call it goofy and expensive. Here are 7 virtual reality technologies that didn't work, and never will.
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#inworldwar
Indie Science Fiction Film Tackles Virtual Reality And The War On Terror
The upcoming indie science fiction film In-World War combines a DIY ethic, virtual reality, the War on Terror, and the loss of identity into a globetrotting dark comedy. Ah, so that's where all the originality in movie-making went. More » -
#quiz
Virtual Sex: Cheating or Not?
You've asked yourself this question 1000 times. When you put on your virtual dolphin suit and do terrible things to that giant squid in your favorite virtual world, does your spouse have the right to be angry? At last, we have the definitive answer. More » -
#virtualworlds
How To React To Your VR Environment
How convincing is virtual reality? To our conscious mind, not at all (Seriously, have you seen Second Life?), but to our subconsciousnesses? Well, it depends how real everyone else thinks it is, apparently. More » -
#musicvideos
The Best And Worst Of Virtual Music Video Worlds
Who can forget Jeremy London's virtual cigarette, after having fake sex with Alicia Silverstone to Aerosmith's "Amazing"? Some of the best and worst virtual world-building has come from the music video industry. Strange virtual music worlds, we salute you. More » -
#triviagasm
The Dumbest Holodeck Episodes Of All Time
It's a terrible cliche — the television episode where our intrepid hero goes inside the cyber-world and things start going terribly wrong. Star Trek owns the holographic disaster story, with its litany of holodeck mishaps, but plenty other shows have gone there. Here are the 10 worst holodeck stories. Ever. More » -
#virtualworlds
The 5 Science Fiction Tales That Made Us Love Virtual Reality
For almost as long as there has been science fiction, there's been virtual reality, teaching us about worlds inside machines before we even knew what the internet was. Here are five of the earliest, and best, VR stories we grew up with. More » -
#virtuality
Ronald D. Moore's Ten-Year Space Mission Launches Early
We've got a slew of promo pictures from Ronald D. Moore's Virtuality two hour TV premiere, whose release date has moved up. So take a gander at the faces who will be slipping in and out of their own virtual worlds, while on a long trip into the black. More »
