Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
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I thought this was an interesting read. You can see that 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.
They must have completely rewritten the script to get Jason Statham on board.
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.
Someone should create a series where the entire Star Trek franchise was a holodeck simulation played by unwitting actors for our amusement.
They did. It was called Enterprise.
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.
“Or lay Marilyn Monroe”. Missed that in Star Trek…
I guess that’s the full range of Roddenberry’s fantasy life. Sounds about right.
The second paragraph reads a lot like what would end up becoming the Talosians in the cage.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It unreasonably annoys me that he wrote “television, smellevision, soundevision” and not television, telesmell, telesound"
Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Roddenberry really just said whatever came to mind, whenever something came to mind.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 year ago
He grew up with the Graphvision and Phonevision brand rip offs so it’s all be knew.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You’re dead wrong, it’s totally reasonable.