ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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Gentlemen, it's time we stopped thinking so "20th Century" on the subject of two-way communications and information displays!

Hell's bells, this is the 21st Century, folks!

Our own children and grandchildren are skyping with handheld devices which surpass the outmoded technology in every Star Trek series ever produced!

Obviously in the 23rd Century people will be communicating with each other and downloading data in a manner that uses both HD images that can fill their visual field, and with stereophonic sound which will be just as dynamic as the headphones I use while listening to music and watching TV in my own living room!







Why would we settle for devices that provide anything less?

So, until our technology can provide us with cranial implants which deliver this visual and audio information directly to our brains — with no need for external devices we wear on our heads — we'll have to be content with tiny ear buds and something similar to (but much more hi-tech) than Google Glas.


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[tmlindsey]

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Brian Henson & Rockne O'Brien discussing Farscape.

Farscape was meant to break the mold of typical space exploration and story telling.

Aside from their ingenious integration of animatronics and puppetry alongside human actors, Farscape also inverted the trope of the heroic, white, male savior in space, as seen on Lost In Space, Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica. "We were loving the idea of how technology eventually is building itself. Sentient beings that are using technology may not have the ability to build it. They're just operating it. The initial idea was for setting the series on board the living starship Moya, who is Leviathan, and was constructed thousands of years ago. Since then, the Leviathans have been procreating and recreating themselves, so technology takes on a whole different point.

We can now have tribal, quite primitive cultures, who are able to use technology and fly from planet to planet. It allowed us to make a show where instead of emotions being turned down to 2 --- like on Star Trek --- in Farscape we wanted emotions to dial up to 12 and allow real fun, spirited character interaction and emotional stories you couldn't do on Star Trek.

We were able to set a world and tone that allowed us to do a whole different type of storytelling."

Sidebar: I love Star Trek: TOS and its feature films and television franchise (just not the J.J. Abrams movies). But I also loved Farscape from its first episode debut in 1999 because it was nothing like Star Trek. It wasn't a wannabe or copycat. It established its own fantastic, fresh and original universe. The production designs were awesome, the cast was terrific. It was unlike any science fiction TV show that had gone before it. I consider it one of the finest sf series ever produced for television.