Vanquisher1000

What is the current state of prosthetic hands that respond to nerve control, especially hands capable of fine movement of specific fingers? I know that hands that respond to myoelectric impulses and can open and close have existed since the late 1980s or thereabouts, but it seems like hands capable of fine movement and gestures with specific fingers are very recent/experimental.

Thanks for the answer! I was thinking in terms of just being able to move an individual finger, as opposed to the whole hand opening and closing, and perhaps even controlling the angle of movement of a digit. Adjusting the force a finger (or fingers) applies in response to somatosensory input is a factor I hadn't considered, since I was only thinking of signals going one way - from the stump to the prosthesis.

As I understand it, remastering in HD is an expensive, time-consuming undertaking, and MGM would have to be sure there would be solid returns on the investment. Anecdotally, the BD releases of Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation haven't sold as well as CBS would have liked, and Star Trek has a far bigger fanbase than Stargate, something that MGM would certainly be aware of.

I figured that if MGM was going to announce a HD re-release of SG-1, the best time to do that would be in the lead-up to or soon after the release of the new movie, when interest in the franchise would be at a new high, but with that project looking iffy (not cancelled, contrary to what a lot of articles seem to be saying), the odds of an SG-1 BD release are also looking slim.

Then there's the issue of demand vs. sales: it's one thing for people to make requests and sign petitions, but when the product is actually on shelves, how many of those people will actually buy the BDs? This ties back to the anecdotes about Star Trek BDs not selling well.

Same here. The original movie is one of my all-time favourites, and I've wanted to see sequels ever since I first read that Dean Devlin mentioned he wanted to do them back in 2002.

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to do this AMA. What was the rationale for making the changes in details from the original StarGate movie when developing SG-1, even though it was conceived as a sequel to the original movie? I'm referring to things like changing the location of the base from the fictional Creek mountain to Cheyenne Mountain, changing a few characters' names, putting lights on the StarGate where there were originally none, and changing the body-possessing aliens from the humanoid in the movie to the Goa'uld 'eels'.