• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

New lost production

Status
Not open for further replies.
A bunch of them are available online. I even took a crack at adapting “Deadlock” as an episode of my fanfic earlier this year.

During a charity auction in Australia, I ended up doing an impromptu reading of scenes from "Deadlock" with my fellow auctioneer, Brian Croucher (the second Travis in "Blake's Seven").

Brian played the main villain and Scotty, and I played Will Decker, James T Kirk (with a pillow up my sweater), Ilia (with a hand over my forehead) and Xon (with my fingers slanted like Vulcan eyebrows).

Someone took video, but I've never seen it, but Xon was immortalised in cartoon form by Marianne Plumridge.


"Eccentricon" antics, 1987 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
 
That means it's embedded in the prgraming and can be an exploitable glitch.

"She" was AI. You datafed the clankers.
A.I.? What would be the purpose of that? Was it a person using a.i. because they have trouble articulating or just an a.i. someone ran amok here.

It was a bot, just like Effie before them. If you parse out their posts, there was no “there” there.

Guaranteed they would not have posted a correction if it wasn’t pointed out.

Ok. Hmmm. I never ran into an effie here.

Learning material to scrape content from. It’s the new version of content farming.

So the petition was to get us to give our names and emails? I didnt sign it but there was a creators name on there.
 
During a charity auction in Australia, I ended up doing an impromptu reading of scenes from "Deadlock" with my fellow auctioneer, Brian Croucher (the second Travis in "Blake's Seven").

Brian played the main villain and Scotty, and I played Will Decker, James T Kirk (with a pillow up my sweater), Ilia (with a hand over my forehead) and Xon (with my fingers slanted like Vulcan eyebrows).

Someone took video, but I've never seen it, but Xon was immortalised in cartoon form by Marianne Plumridge.


"Eccentricon" antics, 1987 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
“Deadlock” is a really good script - I bet it played pretty well to an audience!

I was surprised how easily I was able to make some tweaks to make the story work in the context of the Dominion War in my version. The paranoia aspect was perfection and I was able to amplify the original script’s untapped element about commenting on AI and media manipulation.
 
I think a comic book version would be an excellent way to do it Jane. That way we can get a drawn story with the cast looking how they looked in 77 and the enterprise sets the way they looked for phase II.

IDW have already flirted with the lost "Phase II" era:


Xon in the IDW "Waypoint" comic by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Lieutenant Xon is the feature character in the second story in the "Waypoint" comic from IDW (issue #6) by Gabriel Hardman! "The Fear: A Star Trek Phase II Story".
 
It was a bot, just like Effie before them. If you parse out their posts, there was no “there” there.

Guaranteed they would not have posted a correction if it wasn’t pointed out.
Interesting. I'll admit the the pattern of their posts was becoming predictable (or should I say "I agree, it's becoming predictable!") but that's true of many humans as well. Honestly, I thought it was a slightly off-kilter person trying to awkwardly make a connection and I think my instinctive sympathy for that kind of person blinded me to what, on re-reading, seems a bit obvious. I guess this is the new normal.
 
I so love that my Admiral Yamato trick is now becoming the benchmark of AI detection. 😅

I was suspicious of this account, to the point where I looked at its IP history etc. And I decided that I was likely fine. You guys didn't fall for it. 👏
 
Thanks to Effie, we now know what to look for when things like this happen. And for the people here that fell for it, now you have an education too.
 
Well im wondering if this poster was a bot or someone using a.i. to help them speak. It could have been a person with severe autism using a.i. to communicate and socially interact. Still a good subject. I find the phase II period of trek interesting.
 
Pretty sure the nonsensical idea of Paramount making episodes from Phase II scripts, and the fake petition for such, was to get people’s email and contact info to sell.
 
Pretty sure the nonsensical idea of Paramount making episodes from Phase II scripts, and the fake petition for such, was to get people’s email and contact info to sell.
Yup. Classic social engineering scam to trick folks into giving up their personal info.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top