Alas Voyager and Enterprise are less pleasant (I feel a bit like the handsome literal devil in a film about a man who dies explaining with regret the nature of the other place, which the protagonist ultimately does not qualify for a visa for and instead is sent up to Heaven, in an elevator. This was a classic comedy from the 1940s, black and white, I can’t remember the name, but I can look it up. I think it was the first to feature a soteriological or should i say eschatological elevator. Later Looney Tunes introduced the eschatological escalator). Although some individual episodes are awesome. I am also one of about five known Star Trek watchers who enjoyed “Threshold.” But not enough to compensate for the distilled morbidity of “Emanations”, which is seriously the most morbidly morose episode in the history of Star Trek, with its thanatologists and cenotaphs, which Switzerland has now replicated for real, yuck. But at least Emanations is not pro-euthanasia, if anything its the most anti-euthanasia TV show I’ve ever seen, and I feel like some of the problems Canadians are having since having legalized doctor-assisted homicide were predicted by it. So I would recommend it as an inadvertently pro-life episode.
Its odd how despite Roddenberry’s professed humanism, we see this Christian substrate in Star Trek, including in episodes he wrote, such as Bread and Circuses, which is highly complimentary of Christianity, to put it mildly.
But yes, VR prisons would probably be used for gaming purposes, or some weird stuff.
