Fun Poll - Would You Support Cloning for XI?
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I voted yes/1yr. If accelerated growth and education of clones were possible, I'd love to see a new movie with the young versions of the old cast! I'll qualify that by asking: Would Shatner be Shatner and act like Shatner with that peculiarly Shatnerian delivery if he didn't have the whole of Shatner's life experiences? 
Perhaps synaptic imprinting from the original model would help... but what kind of performance could we expect from bitter old Shatner's mind in vigorous young Shatner's body?
Perhaps synaptic imprinting from the original model would help... but what kind of performance could we expect from bitter old Shatner's mind in vigorous young Shatner's body?
It fills me with great happiness to realize that someday, this WILL be an actual, real-life issue that some dumb suckers will have to contend with - but not us, whoopee! Because I intend to be long dead before anyone thinks its worthwhile to clone Adam Sandler. At that point, why be alive?
It could be worse...they could clone Pauley Shore or Tom Green.
A more pertinent question:
What if the clone doesn't want to live in the original's shadow? What if Nimoy-II decides he doesn't want to be Spock, and would much rather be an avant-garde artist?
Would his pre-natal contract still apply? And would it be fair if he did?
What if the clone doesn't want to live in the original's shadow? What if Nimoy-II decides he doesn't want to be Spock, and would much rather be an avant-garde artist?
Would his pre-natal contract still apply? And would it be fair if he did?
You folks just don't think big enough. Clone armies of the original cast. Then, if one gets too demanding, you know you have cheaper alternatives you can drop right into place. If one becomes Kegek's avant-garde artist, you have plenty left over to take his place. I guarantee with enough clones, you're going to have plenty of spare to work with ... enough that they could do their own stunt work. And so what if one gets hurt? The show just rolls on without them.
But wait! I want to clone Roddenberry and Justman and Solow and Coon, too! We could have thousands of writers and actors and other important crew churning out an episode a day! Or better yet ... live webcam Trek ... twenty-four hours a day!
You don't think the entertainment industry could afford that much Star Trek? Oh, you poor, benighted fool. CLONE THE TREKKIES, TOO!
But wait! I want to clone Roddenberry and Justman and Solow and Coon, too! We could have thousands of writers and actors and other important crew churning out an episode a day! Or better yet ... live webcam Trek ... twenty-four hours a day!
You don't think the entertainment industry could afford that much Star Trek? Oh, you poor, benighted fool. CLONE THE TREKKIES, TOO!
Actually, in just a couple more years we won't need ACTORS, PERIOD. So it becomes a moot point.
Poser v15.0 (or so) will, I'm sure, allow you to feed all of the classic TOS episodes into a utility and get fully photorealistic actor models out. Someone will come up with a utility to quantify body language, someone else will work up a utility to create a digitized speech model based upon the recorded dialog.
You'll be able to feed a script in, position your cameras, and get a fully-photorealistic episode of TOS... the director will be able to "tweak" things, but otherwise, it'll pretty much autogenerate.
I'm actually being somewhat serious here. The problem, then, becomes... how do you prevent Joe-Bob down the street from creating his own God-awful version of Trek... something that makes "Spocks Brain" look like high art?
Poser v15.0 (or so) will, I'm sure, allow you to feed all of the classic TOS episodes into a utility and get fully photorealistic actor models out. Someone will come up with a utility to quantify body language, someone else will work up a utility to create a digitized speech model based upon the recorded dialog.
You'll be able to feed a script in, position your cameras, and get a fully-photorealistic episode of TOS... the director will be able to "tweak" things, but otherwise, it'll pretty much autogenerate.
I'm actually being somewhat serious here. The problem, then, becomes... how do you prevent Joe-Bob down the street from creating his own God-awful version of Trek... something that makes "Spocks Brain" look like high art?
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Yes. On a serious note, this kind of hypothetical technology will be brilliant for historical films. Casting a Julius Caesar modelled on statues of the historical figure, or a Napoleon Bonaparte from paintings - or a Ronald Reagan from recordings. This is the kind of thing I quite candidly dream about.
How do you prevent fans from repeating the tech? Ultimately, you don't. If 'New Voyages' can get made, then, when this hypothetical tech is cheap and widely available (and assuming there's still interest in Star Trek), this would get made too.
Yes. On a serious note, this kind of hypothetical technology will be brilliant for historical films. Casting a Julius Caesar modelled on statues of the historical figure, or a Napoleon Bonaparte from paintings - or a Ronald Reagan from recordings. This is the kind of thing I quite candidly dream about.
How do you prevent fans from repeating the tech? Ultimately, you don't. If 'New Voyages' can get made, then, when this hypothetical tech is cheap and widely available (and assuming there's still interest in Star Trek), this would get made too.
Could you people start getting their skin samples or fluids for the DNA?
When you shake their hands put some glue on the hand to suck up kin cells.
Or the barber could give you the hair.
Or you could siphon their toilet.
Or you could get Shatners gallstone.
The point is to clone you need DNa.
We can get Shatners,Nimoys,Sulu's,Chekov's,Rands.
We maybe able to get Mccoy from items handled by him,Same for Doohans's.
The point is you need to preserve/obtain this DNA.
So who is going to volunteer?
People into same sex romantic pairings. Like Kirk and Spock being gay lovers.
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