Star Trek's Prime directive.\nAssimov's Law's of Robotic's.
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I don't really think so, although I'm not really speaking from a completely educated point of view here.  Asimov's Laws of Robotics, I'm not familiar with, but being a former Trekkie, I'd love to take a phaser blast at this one.  If you think about it, the prime directive was both a really really good idea and also kinda silly.  It prevented them from interfering in otherworldly affairs unless they had developed Warp capability.  In a way, it seems almost arrogant, like they're not good enough for us to get involved.  It's actually almost alleghorical.  Isn't it a widely accepted idea that the only prayer God will hear from a sinner is the sinner's prayer?  So basically God's "prime directive" prevents him from interfering with worldly affairs unless they've developed "warp drive" (a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.)  Not to mention Sci-Fi stands for Science Fiction, and Fiction is exactly what it is.
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I could be a real snit and say "Three words: 'no Prime Directive'" but I won't.\n\n"Stargate has less history"?  "Star Trek has two centuries of history"?  \n\nCorrect me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of the main problems with the short-lived "Enterprise" the fact that it was revisionist history, placing people and events in places they weren't supposed to be for another two hundred years?  (Yes, that Borg-on-ice episode comes to mind, the VERY LAST episode of that show I watched.)\n\nIf you want to get technical, SG-1 has over five THOUSAND years of history to build from, and that's only if you go back to when Daniel Jackson led the Egyptians in a revolt against Ra and kicked him out of Egypt.  The show also draws many of its characters, stories, and challenges from people and events of Earth's ancient mythologies, including (but certainly not limited to) the Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Celtic, Hindu, and Japanese pantheons.  That doesn't count the history of the Ancients and the Ori, which spans thousands of years before Earth's recorded history.\n\nHowever, THAT is not the reason I believe Stargate is better.  The characters of SG-1 are far richer and more believable than most of the characters of Star Trek, especially of the latter shows.  The friendships shared by the cast members of the show translate to the characters they play, giving the central people of the show an underlying chemistry that can't be faked.  The characters themselves evoke such strong emotions in the viewers that when the Daniel Jackson character was written out at the end of the fifth season, outraged fans over-loaded the studio's switchboard to the point it had to be shut down, and flooded the production offices with thousands of letters.  You think Paramount experienced the same when Tasha Yar was killed?  Or Jadzia Dax?  Nope, or if they did, they refused to acknowledge it as the folks of Stargate did: giving the fans what they wanted.\n\nI'm not denying the historical impact of the original Trek and how the waves it made in the late '60s-early 70s still resonate today, but it's apples and oranges to try to compare it to SG-1's action-packed, thought-provoking, pop-culture-referencing, self-effacing, friendship-building, moral-strengthening, darn good story-telling.
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Star Trek and Stargate Atlantis.I wouldn't bring any lobbyists or politicians.Sometimes Sci-fi fantasy makes more sense than reality.
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pulsar \npulse\npulsing\npulses
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Agitators in your shoes subtly influence where they want you to walk. Nanolocators in your drinking water keep track of where you are. Subliminal programming in the television tell you where to look and they watch it all on close circuit satellite TV.
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There is an ooPic group in Yahoo where something is always going on and if you Google "oopic" you will find anything you want to know about hobby robots.
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Of course sci-fi can be prophetic. Look at Jules Verne. On the other hand, reading a Robert Heinlein novel I was amused when the character when to make a ballistics calculation for his space ship and pulled out... a slide rule. I guess they missed a few things. Also, there have been a near infinite amount of predictions in science fiction. They can't all be wrong.
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Robots.txt\n\n// F-off U Spamer!!\nUser-agent: *\nDisallow: *
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http://www.geocities.com/ussmunchkin7/Star_Trek_IV.htm
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I'm definitely waiting for 'Warp speed', the Transporter and the Phaser...yes, in time we'll have these things.\n\nOne example is our Stealth bomber which is similar to a cloaked Romulan Warship.
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More technologically advanced computer systems and having a mind of its own. Robots which can think and carry out certain tasks by following our commands. Robots which can build or operate other machines. Artificial Intelligence will be vast in our society. These should be all figured out within 1000 years from now as our technology is improving and becoming more advanced.
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Star Trek, hands down
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RoboCop.\n\nDon't forget rule four
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Yes, but the pretext for everything in Star Trek is that adventure is good.  Think about how many transporter accidents they had, but the few times they re-calibrate the transporter to do some day-saving derring-do they never bother  to write down what they did.  Because documentation is *boring*.  So if we say that we've got a recreational facility that may randomly become sentient and effectively do a Matrix-like takeover on the ship, great!  Break out the tricorders and study that sucker -- but don't save any data because we wouldn't want to ruin the surprise for the next series in the franchise.
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Io\nEuropa\nGanymede\nCallisto
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The Electronic Universe
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A way to beam you back up to the star trek enterprise.