Re: FOX orders "Virtuality" backdoor pilot

David wrote:
> from the hollywood re****ter
> 
> 'Virtuality' takes off at Fox
> By Nellie Andreeva
> 
> Fox has given the green light to "Virtuality," a two-hour back-door
> pilot from "Battlestar Galactica" mastermind Ronald D. Moore.
> 
> The sci-fi project, from Universal Media Studios and producers Gail
> Berman and Lloyd Braun, is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first
> star****p. It revolves around its crew of 12 astronauts on a 10-year
> journey to explore a distant solar system. To help them endure the
> long trip and keep their minds occupied, NASA has equipped the ****p
> with advanced virtual-reality modules, allowing the crew members to
> assume adventurous identities and go to any place they want. The plan
> works flawlessly until a mysterious "bug" is found in the system.

How is this different from any number of "holodeck" episodes in Star 
Trek: The Next Generation?

Paramount could actually have a lawsuit alleging plagiarism here, if the 
  scripts of the episodes prove too uncomfortably similar to Trek
episodes.

That's the problem:  After *40 years* of Trek episodes, it's difficult 
to come up with a space show that's totally new and different from what 
Trek already did.


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