Re: FOX orders "Virtuality" backdoor pilot

In article <O-ednes9h7mbGpzVnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <38-dnY-DpJL8cp3VnZ2dnUVZ_ubinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> How is this different from any number of "holodeck" episodes in Star 
> >> Trek: The Next Generation?
> > 
> > Because it's the premise for a whole series, not just a couple of 
> > episodes.
> > 
> >> Paramount could actually have a lawsuit alleging plagiarism here, if
the 
> >>   scripts of the episodes prove too uncomfortably similar to Trek
episodes.
> > 
> > There have been so many novels, TV shows and episodes, and feature
films 
> > about virtual reality that I doubt any single one could claim
owner****p 
> > of the concept.
> 
> How many have there been in which the virtual reality system was the 
> main form of amusement aboard an interstellar space****p?  I don't think 
> there have been that many.

I hardly think that the VR system being on a star****p is so original a 
concept that anyone could claim owner****p to it.  I was talking about 
"VT system goes wrong".

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Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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