Comments on: Briefing For Ron Moore’s ‘Virtuality’ TV Movie (and possible series Pilot) Airing Tonight

By: hoping it gets picked up

hoping it gets picked up — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:21:50 +0000

If left as a movie I’d rate it a waste of time since so many questions were left unanswered
But if it turns into a TV show I would say I loved it and can’t wait for more!!
Thee are so many possibilities and angles they could go with
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it gets picked up!!

By: Phil Smith

Phil Smith — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:19:42 +0000

Silly. Just plain silly.

So many people have lowered so many bars across so many fields that few know when something is actually good anymore.

The wait goes on…

By: RD

RD — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:11:37 +0000

I see Moore is better at taking somebody else’s’ ideas and re-working them.

Could not watch this thing but a few minutes at a time. Thank God for TIVO. They unfortunately saved the most interesting stuff until the end. Absolutely the kiss of death.

It definitely needed to fail. Or, produce it on the cheap and sell it to MTV with a younger more attractive cast. Just terrible.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:01:58 +0000

ps. I’m really thrilled with the genre coverage on this site — Thanks, Anthony. This is one of the few sites I come to nearly every day (others are nytimes, gmail, facebook, espn, r.tomatoes and digg).

By: The Original Spock's Brain

The Original Spock's Brain — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:14:09 +0000

20. Greg2600

It’s you.

By: vorta23492392932939230

vorta23492392932939230 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:39:52 +0000

It was pretty annoying at first with the reality concepts and the people fighting ala big brother or whatever — but the VR spookiness and religious conversion (paging Kara Thrace, Angel of God!) aspect of Captain Pike (ST ref?) hooked me. “I once was lost but now I’m found” indeed!

Then he seemingly realizes that all LIFE is just a kind of VR when he asks – if you kill someone in a video game do you have to stand trial? Spooky/morally ambiguous territory. I want to see more, Moore.

By: Enc

Enc — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:33:35 +0000

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they fired off a few charges and mentioned 100 some odd more togo. (most likley for the total trip) but keeping in science that would put them at 25-30 charges to get them to 0.15c then again for slowing down then up for the return then slow down for the final earth arival.

your right about the rads. there is some papaers now about putting mag shields on craft to protect the crew and shelters. but i dont recall those being mentioned. windows any one ?

i think thety did roatate those botany sections so the windows faced away from the propulsion shields in case any rads got thru.

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it flopped?
any one got the overnite numbers on this thing?

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now that you mention it. i dont think they could have gotten to their target speed (0.15c) with nukes alone. I think they had to build up to speed X by doing slingshot(s) THEN hit the nukes. and the slingshot method gave them a point of no return option.

ah hell lets just look it up

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/mike-okuda-the-phaeton-and-nuclear-pulse-propulsion/
also read Aplications and Later Developments at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

By: JonWes

JonWes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:05:58 +0000

i liked it a lot! More then I thought I would. Too bad it never had a chance. Why does Fox even buy these?

By: Commodore Lurker

Commodore Lurker — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:58:20 +0000

I like it, watched it twice. Another smart, intelligent, well written show fromRon Moore and Michael Taylor.

Too bad no one put this much thought into JJ Trek. }:-)>

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:51:25 +0000

It sounds like a rip-off of Star Trek. So I’m glad that it flopped.