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Real people vs scifi tech: the holodeck
One of my least favourite story devices in Star Trek is the holodeck and in my opinion some of the worst episodes stem from this piece of tech.
What’s the tech?
According to Wikipedia the holodeck is a room that can simulate objects and people through a combination of replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields onto which holographic images are projected. Sounds and smells are simulated by speakers and fragranced fluid atomizers, …
Comment by Dan: I didn’t mind holodeck episodes. For a start it gave …
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At what I consider to be the absolute lowest point of the Stargate Atlantis filler episodes there was a story which when broken down was pretty much about three people who fell in a hole. In the second week of Stargate Universe we have people wandering around Tatooine… ahem I mean a desert getting thirsty and cranky.
Oh and something happens at the very end to remind you that it might be worth while sticking around even though you’ve already seen Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek Voyager and SG1/SGA.
If you didn’t notice the spoiler warning in the title then you should consider yourself warned now.
It’s not that Air Part 3 (I’m confused at this stage if I refer to this as the second episode or just charge ahead with third?) is a bad episode, it’s just a neutral episode or as I commonly refer to a LOT of non SG1 Stargate episodes, a filler. So what do we get in this episode:
- some backstory on Matthew Scott in the unique and fresh way of dying man in the desert seeing flashbacks
- twister alien or as I like to refer to it the whirlywind alien
- Dr. Rush getting kicked
- Roland Greer kicking Dr. Rush
- Roland Greer generally being a psycho jerk that no one wants to sit next to
- Eli getting sunburned
- Two people I don’t care enough to find out their names getting stranded on another planet… let’s call them redshirt one and two (I don’t even remember if they got rescued now)
- Science guy getting shot by Roland Greer
- Colonel Telford being a jerk
- Chloe Armstrong went to tell her mother that her father died… I went to the bathroom and got something to eat whilst this was happening so I can only assume…
- The scrubbers were repaired and a song talking about breathing was played subtly over the montage of everyone enjoying air again… I liked the scene in Total Recall better, it had mutants.
- In a mind blowing scene that will be discussed for days around the water cooler the hatch finally opens and… oh sorry um a shuttle flew away from the Destiny.
I think that about sums up what I took away from the episode, a lot of the crew are jerks and some people got sunburned in the desert.
Sigh.
