{"id":5664,"date":"2009-05-30T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/moores-virtuality-not-dead\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:41","slug":"moores-virtuality-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/05\/moores-virtuality-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore&#8217;s Virtuality Not Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it appeared that <b>Ronald D. Moore<\/b>&#8216;s <i>Virtuality<\/i> was as good as dead, FOX has changed its mind about the show and additional episodes are now planned for production.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/airlockalpha.com\/\">Airlock Alpha<\/a>, an entry in <b>Doug Drexler<\/b>&#8216;s blog shared the good news with his readers. &#8220;We got the word that a show we thought was dead is now on the fast track,&#8221; said Drexler, who was the CG supervisor for the <i>Virtuality<\/i> pilot. &#8220;It&#8217;s Ron Moore&#8217;s <i>Virtuality<\/i>. It just goes to show you how this business goes. It was dead, dead, dead&#8230;now it&#8217;s alive, alive, alive&#8230;and they want it now, now, now!&#8221; <!--more--><i>Virtuality<\/i> is about a group of space travelers on a ten-year journey to explore a distant solar system. To endure the long trip, the crew has advanced virtual-reality modules. All is well until a virus enters the system and puts the lives of the crew in danger. <\/p>\n<p>Last December, Moore was asked to change elements of the series to make it more mainstream. In addition, author <b>Joe Haldeman<\/b> claimed that <i>Virtuality<\/i> bore a striking resemblance to his <i>Old Twentieth<\/i> novel, published in 2005. He has not yet brought forth a lawsuit, but the threat is still there.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet from FOX on when the series might be aired.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/airlockalpha.com\/news426393.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it appeared that Ronald D. Moore&#8216;s Virtuality was as good as dead, FOX has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2705,2706,2707],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-drexler","tag-moore","tag-virtuality"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6878,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}