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Waldau Captains Starship in VIRTUALITY

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Executive producer Ronald Moore and Fox has a new leading star for their upcoming space-located sci-fi "Virtuality", says HR. The trade reports that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("New Amsterdam") is staying at Fox as the star of the network's two-hour pilot. Waldau will be joining fellow crew members James D'Arcy, Joy Bryant, Sienna Guillory, Nelson Lee, Omar Metwally and Richie Coster. Ron Moore and Michael Taylor wrote the backdoor pilot, which is being directed by Peter Berg.

Plot Concept: 
The sci-fi show is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first starship, on a 10-year journey to explore a distant solar system. To help the crew endure the long trip, NASA equips the ship with advanced virtual reality modules, allowing them to assume adventurous identities and go anyplace they want. Brit D'Arcy ("Churchill at War") will play the ship's psych officer, who produces the virtual reality shows. Coster-Waldau will play mission commander Frank Pike, a born leader. Bryant is set as Alice Thibadeau, Lee is playing Kenji Yamaguchi, Guillory will portray Rika Goddard, Metwally is set as Dr. Eyal Meyer, and Coster was cast as Jimmy Johnson.

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Comments/Responses
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Dazzler • Jun 25, 2008, 04:27am •
Might watch the first few ep's. Sounds too much like Trek to me however.

joeybaloney • Jun 25, 2008, 06:30am •
I got a little of the same Fear myself Dazzler. Hell of a lot of similarities on the surface. Much as I like BSG, Moore's involvement with Trek doesn't help allay my Fears. I’m sure the tone of the show will be much different but I’d really like to hear a little more about what it’s about specifically. Are they going to be visiting other planets on this 10 year journey or will it essentially be them locked in the ship and spending their waking hours in the VR room helping virtual widows save the virtual farms from virtual developers?

More importantly: is sex with a VR construct masturbation?

monkeyfoot • Jun 25, 2008, 06:43am •
This show has possiblities. On the surface it sounds like Trek but I'm sure there is more to it that a short paragrpah description has told. What if on the Enterprise journeys between planets were so long and uneventful that the crew spent the majority of their time on the holodeck? What type of things would they be doing? What are the characters they would interact with and would they be as real to you as the real crewmembers? Possibilties.

Joey, it would only be masturbation if she didn't call you in morning.

captm0rgan77 • Jun 25, 2008, 06:50am •
It depends on if that "VR construct" is a sentient being. Meaning, does it have a choice but to pleasure you? If not than your answer would be yes joey-spank-my-baloney.

I remember this article coming up a couple of weeks ago. Yes this does sound like star trek, but Moore's proved himself in my book, so I'll give it a shot.

Two questions:
1. Does this mean that "New Amsterdam" isn't coming back?"

2. Do you think that they ended BSG because FOX yanked Moore away for this? The timing is suspicouos.

joeybaloney • Jun 25, 2008, 06:54am •
What if it's a VR sock puppet?

hanso • Jun 25, 2008, 07:17am •
Bet a an evil virtual program downloads into one of the humans

fft5305 • Jun 25, 2008, 07:53am •
New Amsterdam was cancelled a while back. Shame, too. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And Waldau played the part very well. The partner, while cute, reminded me too much of Jordin Sparks. It was a little disturbing. But the show was great.

And yes, joeybaloney, it would be masturbation. It would just be very sophisticated masturbation. Though captm0organ brings up a good point. I am assuming a VR construct would not be sentient. Much like on the Enterprise's holodeck, it would be very sophisticated programming to *appear* sentient, but in the end, it would just be a computer program, and therefore a tool.

joeybaloney • Jun 25, 2008, 08:16am •
Alright then. What if I had sex with V'ger? Hmmmmmm?

hanso • Jun 25, 2008, 08:19am •
I don't know if it's masturbation or not, but where can I get such a wonderful toy?

whedon1 • Jun 25, 2008, 08:49am •
Hello all,
Joss here...Remember when I was cool?
So, I was thinking, you know what 3 things would make this show great?
1) A Western/Pan-Asian influence that no one can quite figure out
2) Alan Tudyk
3) a Banging intro song containing the refrain "You cant take this guy from me"

Its totally my birthday today. Where you at metalwater? I need a fan. God please just one.

Has this "Ronald Moore" ever even WON a Nebula Award? He has? SHIT! Somebody kill me. Please.

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