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I can guarantee, if you can provide the entire body's function in a wheelchair, you can slap arms on that had have them movable by a person. We're talking at cu
by fao_ 7y ago
I can guarantee, if you can provide the entire body's function in a wheelchair, you can slap arms on that had have them movable by a person. We're talking at current level of tech.
- ChuckMcM 7y agoAbsolutely, and have them move by brainwaves. It was one of the more amusing things that Star Trek didn't go far enough to be the future (like they can't cure male pattern baldness but give someone a pill and they grow a new kidney) but science continuity aside. Where does that leave us with an ethical obligation to people who are alive but not alive. Imagine if Pike got Alzheimers, when would Starfleet pull the plug on him? It is an ethically challenging place.
- deathanatos 7y ago> At a press conference about Star Trek: The Next Generation, a reporter asked Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about casting Patrick Stewart, commenting that "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Gene Roddenberry had the perfect response. > "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." https://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/star-trek-creators-perfect-c.html https://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/star-trek-creators-perfect...
- fao_ 7y agoFunnily enough, I think either Rick Berman or Patrick Stewart actually had to talk Gene Rodenberry into that realization.