posted
I'm not sure I "get" the series, but the new Doctor Who had an episode presenting a far future where h. sapiens had almost entirely transitioned to a series of curious daughter species.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
And the traditional Earth ballad that gets played on it!
That episode posits that by the year five billion, there are no "classic" human beings left:
ROSE So, you're not the last human.
CASSANDRA I am the last pure human. The others... mingled.
[Cassandra looks disgusted]
CASSANDRA Oh, they call themselves 'New Humans' and 'Proto-humans' and 'Digi-humans' even 'Human-ish' but you know what I call them?
[She lowers her voice to a whisper]
CASSANDRA Mongrels.
ROSE Right. And you stayed behind.
CASSANDRA I kept myself pure.
Although it's pretty absurd to think that humans would NOT have evolved in some way... Five billion years is plenty of time, even if technololgy has conquered most pressure for natural evolution.
WizArtist II
"How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock? "
Member # 1425
posted
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Agreed- really, we've never seen any sci-fi show/movie that deals with what humans might become, rather it's usually how humans have remained the same (or worse) despite the passage of time and incredible technology advances.
I remember one show that dealt with little grey men in UFO's. Its premise turned out to be that humans will BECOME the little grey men and have to travel back in time to this era to harvest genetic material to allow them to reproduce. So I guess we're dealing with Extra-Temporals instead of Etra-Terrestrials.
-------------------- There are 10 types of people in the world...those that understand Binary and those that don't.
Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged
posted
It should be pointed out that, in that "Doctor Who" episode, the "last pure human" is actually a big sheet of skin and veins stretched over a rectangular frame, with eyes and a mouth.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
OnToMars
Now on to the making of films!
Member # 621
posted
WizArtist, I remember that. Not the name or actors for the life of me, but I do remember it.
-------------------- If God didn't want us to fly, he wouldn't have given us Bernoulli's Principle.
Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
posted
"Is that an actual novel or are you just thinking of writing something? Could be an amazingly fun Flarite collective project....either as a seperate forum (as the unlamented Titan design forum was) or in the Starships and Tech section."
Well I meant that the DS9 Millenium Novels would be something for me to read for the month. As for a project that would be interesting...
Registered: Feb 2005
| IP: Logged
posted
No, the greys in Dark Skies were just aliens, at least as far as anyone mentioned. But aliens as future humans is a common theme in UFO circles.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Was that the pay off for that 'Taken' thingy that Spielberg paid for? I got bored with it, so I didn't watch the final episode.
-------------------- I have plenty of experience in biology. I bought a Tamagotchi in 1998... And... it's still alive.
Registered: Apr 2005
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: "Is that an actual novel or are you just thinking of writing something? Could be an amazingly fun Flarite collective project....either as a seperate forum (as the unlamented Titan design forum was) or in the Starships and Tech section."
Well I meant that the DS9 Millenium Novels would be something for me to read for the month. As for a project that would be interesting...
Those are good- not exacly alternate Dominion War though- everything get's throughly fucked before the war really gets going. Those are the books with the "Starfleet tricorder/phaser Visor" in them, BTW.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: Was that the pay off for that 'Taken' thingy that Spielberg paid for? I got bored with it, so I didn't watch the final episode.
Googling a bit for UFOs "from the future" TV, it seems it may have been The 4400...
Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
posted
Probing further into The 4400 (ha!) I found that the abductors in question were either not shown or are not the greys. Plus the show is too recent, I think.
-------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
OnToMars
Now on to the making of films!
Member # 621
posted
It's older than that, I'm pretty sure. I remember watching it as a kid.
-------------------- If God didn't want us to fly, he wouldn't have given us Bernoulli's Principle.
Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic
