Sure, but, how long can you keep it in the prison? Once you escape, it's no longer a Space Prison show. Even Prison Break couldn't stay inside the Prison Walls beyond about 20 episodes, I believe
Who wants to see a Sci fi prison show with aliens.
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Isn't that a place we call Earth?
Yevetha
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Prison Break was only good and had the right amount of tension while they were in prison.
Oh, a philosopher!
Sure, why not. In the future, aliens have turned a shithole planet once known as "Earth" into an armed camp, where they deposit all the scum and villany of the cosmos...
You assume the escape will be successful. A prison show should be about the society that develops behind bars. I never watched Prison Break, so I can't say what did or didn't happen there.
Prison Break was about a guy (Michael Scofield) who deliberately gets sent to prison so he can bust out his brother who is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Michael comes up with an elaborate escape scheme that has contingencies on top of contingencies, and to remember it all, he has the details coded in a full-body tattoo.
The first season was a minor masterpiece as the plan unfolded. In the second season, the gang of good guys and miscreants that Michael assembled for the break-out is on the run, and it was still fun but not nearly as clever. After that, the show got steadily worse. So it was never really about the society in the prison - that's more Oz's thing.
The first season was a minor masterpiece as the plan unfolded. In the second season, the gang of good guys and miscreants that Michael assembled for the break-out is on the run, and it was still fun but not nearly as clever. After that, the show got steadily worse. So it was never really about the society in the prison - that's more Oz's thing.
The guards should be androids so that they have no loyalty to any of the species in the prison. Or, there could be a species for which crime is simply unthinkable, and the guards come from that species.
The guards should be nanites. Monitored by overseers outside the cell blocks, these nanites are injected into each inmate upon arrival.
They track location, allow for language translation, check physical well-being, and possibly emotional state. And if necessary they can attempt to take control of an inmate, to either subdue him/her, or use the inmate to perform a beat-down to suppress another inmates actions.
There would probably be blind spots where the nanites don't function, and wouldn't function outside the confines of the prison station at all.
Cell blocks would also be configured to house inmates of specific atmospheres and gravity, so one race of guard would be impractical.
Good idea with the nanites. This being TV, ideally there should be a way to visualize/personalize the nanites so they are more than just some unseen entity. Perhaps that's the job of the actors - under certain conditions, the nanites are "authorized" to totally take over the inmate and then they begin behaving strikingly differently. There are legal and moral barriers to doing this all the time, but it might be necessary in case of break-out, prison riot, etc.
Or: the nanites could assemble themselves to mimic any species. Maybe there's one species that is known for being authoritative and intimidating. Or maybe species are more likely to recognize the authority of their own species vs other species or artificial life forms. It could be that the prisoners are unaware that the guards are artificial life forms.
Or: the nanites could assemble themselves to mimic any species. Maybe there's one species that is known for being authoritative and intimidating. Or maybe species are more likely to recognize the authority of their own species vs other species or artificial life forms. It could be that the prisoners are unaware that the guards are artificial life forms.
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