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I thought this was an interesting read. You can see that the seeds of what would become Star Trek were already growing.

Also, despite the name "Transporter" sounding familiar, his description of it is closer to a holodeck. It "transports" the user to different scenarios. Wild.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It unreasonably annoys me that he wrote "television, smellevision, soundevision" and not television, telesmell, telesound"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Roddenberry really just said whatever came to mind, whenever something came to mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He grew up with the Graphvision and Phonevision brand rip offs so it’s all be knew.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're dead wrong, it's totally reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They must have completely rewritten the script to get Jason Statham on board.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ending bits that imply a darker vision of this future suggests a very different direction for the show. Still, there are Star Trek episodes that do consider the holodeck from this angle. Maybe we need a mirror universe holodeck episode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone should create a series where the entire Star Trek franchise was a holodeck simulation played by unwitting actors for our amusement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did. It was called Enterprise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT EPISODE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even the creators agree that it sucks tremendously and suggest that the second to last episode is the supposed season finale (the one ending with archer pulling a Picard, giving an epic speech)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Or lay Marilyn Monroe". Missed that in Star Trek...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
  1. Argue with Socrates
  2. Spend a million dollars
  3. Lay Marilyn Monroe

I guess that’s the full range of Roddenberry’s fantasy life. Sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like he read The Veldt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The second paragraph reads a lot like what would end up becoming the Talosians in the cage, although the device sounds like the neural interface they had on the Equinox, in place of the Holodeck.