Or indeed the Bicentennial Man. (His relationship with Little Miss, anyhow — those are the last words he speaks before dying.)

With a side of Continuum. I’m cool with that. Both did interesting things with the premise.

Uhhh....OCP owning the Detroit PD in Robocop? Kinda been done before?

“We go our for one little drink, and you get into a fight with Boba Fett.”

But you forgot the question we all wanted asked:

Also, the quasi-two parter The Siege of AR-558 and It’s Only a Paper Moon dealing with PTSD and combat injuries years before we got involved in another armed conflict.

Much can still be explored via an adoption of a Section 31 series, showing the dark underbelly of the Federation. The universe that TNG occupies was not achieved with puppies and flowers. There are always the sin eaters taking out the garbage in every society, and their stories would make for some great storytelling.

11) Topics that were way ahead of their time. Everyone talks about the technology that Trek got right, but I’ve been rewatching TNG and had forgotten they tackled topics like terrorism and sexual identity. They tackled them well before these were even thought to be everyday topics in our news cycle. And not only did…

I have personally enjoyed Black Mirror for this reason, but there’s not enough of it. I am clamoring for a new science fiction anthology series. I’ve even recently been rewatching Twilight Zone on Netflix just to get a fix.

Great article, Charlie! Regarding your first point — scripts by the biggest science fiction writers of the day — the 1980s Twilight Zone reboot I think came close (Harlan Ellison, George R.R. Martin, J. Michael Straczynski, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke, etc.) sad that it was killed by the Writers…

Loved him in Dogma!

Agree. I’m grateful that my instance of my consciousness is bound to this mortal vessel. The scale of horror that could theoretically be inflicted on a digitized copy of a person’s being is absolutely terrifying.

but the customer chose to enslave “herself” for her own selfishness. She wanted a Siri equivalent w/o auto-correct errors, she wanted personalized AI for all themundane BS in her sooo busy life. It was not that nonsensical of a concept.

Honestly, America, is it okay if the rest of the world invades you now and puts a stop to this, because at this point we’re all looking at you like you’re the 6 year old neighborhood kid that vandalizes everyone’s gardens and cars, while his parent say “Oh, boys will be boys, amirite? Ha ha ha, good times.”.

Happy Hogswatch, everyone!

Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager.

The City and the City was my first thought when I saw the title of this article. There is no single genre that can contain it.