Stargate - the robot lookalikes.

[Scifi fan]

I just saw "Double Jeopardy", which was a sequel to an earlier episode. Basically, it involved robots/androids that looked like the main characters, and who had similar personalities, except they weren't the originals, and they wanted to explore the universe.

I think something like this can be a good idea for a spinoff. The copies felt they had to prove themselves, and they wanted the originals to consider them real too. This could add an interesting dimension to the standard SF series.

Anyone interested in discussing this with me?

 

[Somni]

I don't think it would make a good spinoff. The robts are too similar to the main characters (they are copies after all). The proving themselves/prove to others bit was carried out in one of the episodes, I guess the double jeopardy one where the robots sacrifice themselves for SG1.

 

[PTeppic]

Have to agree with Somni - there's very little ground that can be gained from the underlying premise. We have robots who happen to be physically and intellectually duplicated from some real people - there are probably only three storylines which can be developed: they realise they're robots (done in "Tin Man"), they're mistaken for the real group (done in "Double Jeopardy") and they "become" or "act like" their real counterparts (also in DJ). There are slight variations, but not enough to justify a spin-off.

 

[Scifi fan]

I think you guys are right. But there would be a good episode, alluded in Double Jeopardy, where they got curious and so went off on their own. I'd like to see how that came about.

Jack the Copy: hey, let's go on expeditions like the others.

Sam the Copy: why not? They do it, why can't we? We look like them, only we're faster and stronger.

Jack: yeah, except they don't accept it.

Tealq: Enough about them. Where do we go?

Just the aspiring writer in me coming out.

 

[PTeppic]

But isn't that just a normal episode of SG-1, only with the robots?

 

[Scifi fan]

But isn't that just a normal episode of SG-1, only with the robots?

Well, yes.

I was just thinking aloud. Of course, this could be the basis for a different series, where the robots somehow came into being, and they tried to emulate their originals. And a sub-theme is them trying to prove they were at least as good and as real as the originals - which could be a metaphor for kids awkwardly trying to prove they were as good as their parents.

Data in Star Trek: Next Gen is a bit like that, actually.