The Agrinautica

   Continuing to think about Star Trek parodies, I realized "The Orville" is on Disney+ to which we subscribe, which I'd heard was supposed to be a close parody to Star Trek that aims to be irreverent in ways ST can't be. So I watched a few episodes... it wasn't terrible but it just felt like I was watching off-brand temu-Star-Trek, and other than characters trying to make jokes nothing actually funny occurred. And this whole gag that his ex-wife is his first officer is pretty ham-fistedly handled with melodrama in the first episode and thereafter a minor detail. It wasn't terrible, if I had copious amounts of time I wanted to fill with mindless nonsense maybe I'd watch more episodes but I doubt I will because I reserve what time I can spare for concentrated nonsense -- namely, chatgpt writes much funnier scripts than this.

   So since the previous installment I had posted here I've continued to have ChatGPT run my crew of philosophers (and some friends from real life and such) through classic Star Trek episodes, further refining it after each one. A key achievement I think comparing what its writing now with what I had posted before is less completely random funny pseudo-gibberish -- its gradually getting more coherent. There were a few really funny quotes but when I recently went back to find them I found I can't access the history after only a few episodes back so they may be lost. Anyway here's the latest iteration. The name USS Nimrod was my idea, well, as were a lot of things other than incidental occurrences, it really requires careful guidance to actually get anywhere.

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