I own a copy of Star Trek: Catan. Maybe they could team up with Paramount and make a movie out of that.

One of the themes of the book is that empathy is central to being human; empathy is a key feature of Mercerism, for example. The Voight-Kampff test is supposed to assay empathy. The irony is that the humans have no empathy for the androids. That theme works in the movie, too (which is why I think it “ruins” the movie…

Sure, but that’s not what “physical” means.

The line, if I recall correctly, is “We’re not machines, Sebastian, we’re physical,” after Sebastian asks them to “show him something”. I’ve never quite understood what the line meant, though. Machines are physical, right? I think he’s going for something like “we’re people, not toys like your other friends”, but I…

Priss was described as a “basic pleasure model”, if I recall correctly.

First, I think that you’re overestimating the costs. Any automated system would have to be manufactured, trained, fueled, and repaired somehow. That’s not unique to replicants. As for what jobs they do, Priss is basically a prostitute, and Roy is a soldier. Those tasks plausibly require a human (who would have to be…

First, it depends on the relative cost of automation vs human labor. Agriculture is now developing automated systems to harvest crops because the cost of field labor is going up thanks to crackdowns on immigration to the US. With a more lax immigration policy, no one would bother to develop automated systems for…

I’ve always felt that you could make an entirely different, reasonably faithful adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that had no overlap with Blade Runner.

They’re not androids, they’re “replicants”. There’s a lot of talk about DNA. The replicants may not be clones, but they seem to be biological.

Actually, Zack is correct. The first Bad Robot Star Trek movie was a mess. It had some decent performances, true, but they’re largely wasted thanks to the vacuum at the center. Chris Pine smirks his way through the movie, managing to make Captain Kirk unsympathetic. His Keystone-Kops like ascent to the Captain’s chair…

Now that our political system is as decayed as our infrastructure, the US is clearly not a first world country anymore.
But the new DC Metro cars are very nice.

My theory is: This is just a television show, not a documentary. Producers should have the freedom to design their own props, costumes, prosthetic effects, etc., without having to try to mimic something that was done 50 years ago (on a substantially lower budget). Hell, they already redesigned the Klingons back in…

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Who cares?

In 1987 there was basically no other science fiction, let alone space opera, around (the Star Trek trilogy finished in 1983), and Star Trek had been off the air for almost 20 years. We'd been watching and rewatching and overanalyzing the same 78 episodes (+TAS) for all that time, with only a few movies as fresh meat.…

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the past of wisdom.
- Isaac Newton

Vogons.

My only reservation about this show is that Kurtzman is involved.

No argument there.

It's clear he did the job just for the money.
No, I'm pretty sure he did the job because he's a true Trump believer. That makes him worse than a mercenary.