I’ll make this post brief. First off, the whole PDA thing as we know it IMHO has been killed off with the iPhone. So initially, I’m inclined to paint this whole rumor of reviving the Apple Newton as totally bats. Steve Job’s chair doesn’t need another leg, and iPhone is about as good as a PDA could ever be.

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A general and a professor are teaching a speed learning course via the television where citizens of The Village can learn three years worth of knowledge in three minutes. Number 6 realizes this speed learning could be a dangerous form of brainwashing.

Number 6 decides to learn the identity of the general. He finds an administrator (Number 12) who is willing to help him sneak a bit further into the inner workings of The Village than before.

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I’ve checked out all the episodes of Star Trek: New Voyages over the past year or so, which isn’t too hard to do since the self-financed fan-film production doesn’t move very quickly. Essentially, the series centers around the idea of following a later year of the multi year mission of the starship Enterprise. All the production is done by fans with no profit motive, at surely great personal expense and time commitment, but thanks to the modern production available via computers and digital cameras, the end result has the potential to create a better product than a major television studio back in 1967. I say potential because while the technical aspects and over all effort of Star Trek: New Voyages is impressive, it’s frankly impossible to reach the high bar set by the original Star Trek.

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