Virtuality: a tv series on Fox one day
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"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are."
The Talmud"I know Kung Fu."
Neo, The Matrix
Ok - here’s where you can read a whole lot more about this, but this new series in production at Fox in the US sounds well cool.
Just a sneak:
Twelve astronauts onboard Earth’s first starship, the Phaeton, are on a ten-year expedition to search for a distant solar system. To stave off boredom the astronauts spend time in the self-created worlds they experience in virtual reality modules. The crew are faring well until someone downloads a bug into the system — is one of them the saboteur?
from tv.com
And with that we meet Francis "Frank" Pike or at least according to the virtual reality simulation he’s experiencing, Colonel Pike of the Union Army, circa 1863. He’s leading a surprise attack against a platoon’s worth of Confederate soldiers transporting supplies - only to have it backfire as a trap. And in an even stranger twist - one of Pike’s own men, a green-eyed corporal, pulls out a gun and kills him. A surprised Pike awakens in the real world as he’s about to start another day as commander of the Phaeton, Earth’s first starship.
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From here we begin our introductions to the crew as Pike makes his way through the football field-sized ship - there’s nuclear scientist/engineer James "Jimmy" Johnson, a slightly bitter paraplegic; happily married exobiologists Alice Thibadeau and Kenji Yamaguchi, who have "christened" most of the ship’s compartments; microbial ecologist Rika Goddard, who’s having a "virtual" affair with Pike; life partners Manny Rodriguez, a mathematician, and Valentin "Val" Orlov, a Russian geologist, who always seem to be bickering; Dr. Eyal Meyer, the ship’s medical officer; Billie Kashmiri, the ship’s computer specialist; Sue Parsons, the Phaeton’s co-pilot and resident surfer chick; Dr. Julius "Jules" Braun, an ex-NASA scientist/college professor/New York Giants fan; Roger Fallon, Rika’s husband, who serves the dual roles of psych officer and - oddly enough - on-board media liaison; and last, but not least, Jean, the ship’s onboard computer who’s always just a chirp away.
from TheFutonCritic.com
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Mind you, I hear the name ‘Pike’ and I still get carried back to Dad’s Army… I wonder if there’s a script link?
