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Comment on Gene Roddenberry's first sci-fi show pitch from 1955: "The Transporter"

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.

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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Someone should create a series where the entire Star Trek franchise was a holodeck simulation played by unwitting actors for our amusement.

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- ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They did. It was called Enterprise.
  
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  - GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT EPISODE.
    
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    GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Even the creators agree that it sucks tremendously and suggest that the second to last episode is the supposed season final (the one ending with archer pulling a Picard, giving an epic speech)
    
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blivet@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It actually sounds a lot like a comic novel from the early 60s called The Big Ball of Wax by Shepherd Meade, who wrote How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It’s about a corporate middle management drone who stumbles on the development of the technology Roddenberry describes.

It’s all about how the corporation the main character works for figures out what to do about the new technology, because the initial users prefer to have virtual experiences and have stopped buying anything but the basics needed to stay alive and healthy. The corporation is afraid it’s going to go broke and the larger economy is going to collapse.

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