Re: Mega Message

From: chance <chance_at_unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:30:27 -0700

>>Hey, Zed and Greenbox aren't bad guys,
>
> Zed was, just that Greenbox kinda went a little "insane" after he
>found out what Zed could really do, and wanted to help him.

Ehhhh...."wanted to help him?" I didn't really get that from the ep, just a variation
of the "Animal Farm" doctrine "Power corrupts. Absolute Power corrupts
Absolutely". Greenbox was so wrapped up in his creation and its abilities
that the right and wrong of things became largely irrelevant.

I thought there was more than a passing similarity to the second "Barkley" storyline
on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" where Broccoli wound up more or less
integrated with the ship's main computer after his hyper-intelligence brought about
that Holodeck interface. In fact, I think the frames of Greenbox "hooked up"
to Zed were intentionally meant to evoke images of that similar scene in STNG
prior to the commercial break that always goes there (the first glimpse of
Barkley's newfound "attitude").


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Received on Tue Jun 11 1996 - 22:01:29 PDT