Star Trek and Virtual Reality (The Meaning of Star Trek) by Shapiro Alan

Author:Shapiro, Alan [Shapiro, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

"That still doesn't explain the death of my ship's surgeon," Kirk angrily tells the apologetic Dreamworks superintendent. But from behind him, the Captain unexpectedly hears a familiar voice. "Possibly because no one has died, Jim," utters the Doctor with more than a trace of ecstasy and good humor. McCoy is feeling fit again, with a Las Vegas-style showgirl hanging from each arm, replicas of two chorus line members from "a little cabaret I know on Rigel II."

The remorseful Caretaker is so eager to make amends for the distasteful "accident" that Captain Kirk and his entourage regretfully endured that he later launched an ultimately successful campaign for the entry of the Amusement Park Planet into the United Federation of Planets. The official Federation Travel Guide (Friedman 1997) nowadays lists the planetwide imagination factory as a three-star galactic attraction, run by friendly, super-evolved aliens, "equipped with sophisticated subterranean [sic -- we are not on Earth] equipment capable of reading the minds of its visitors, then almost instantly creating whatever the visitor is thinking about."

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