Gene Roddenberry Junior talks in Second Life

A noob was in town at the weekend, Gene Roddenberry junior (AKA Rod Roddenberry), son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry…umm senior…spoke to an audience in Second Life as part of a Science Fiction convention that I didn’t even know was going on. I’ve talked before about how I expected more Science Fiction to be apparent in Second Life and there’s a convention going on and I know nothing about it! Heh, Second Life is too big for its own good at times 🙂

The podcast will be up on LCCC Radio (The Duck) sometime this week, I’ll post a link when it is ready. Rod talked of many things, his enthusiasm for Star Trek the next generation shone through (he’s a bit young for Star Trek the original). He spoke of how he had a teenager/Father relationship with his Father and how Wesley Crusher is not based upon him!

There was talk of copyright issues, talk of his own projects, what he saw on the set of the next generation and much more, the podcast should be worth listening to.

However he spoke extremely enthusiastically as a noob to Second Life, only an hour after being registered. Why did he have the surname he did? He had no idea, we do of course, as you choose one of the generated names.

He was prompted to move his mouse so his avatar didn’t slump in the away mode look and he was enthusiastic about the fact there were furries present in Second Life as well as the look and design of other avatars.

He was impressed that you could take a flight inworld, he described Second Life as a “cool cool area” and his eyes inevitably noticed that there were some pretty looking ladies in the audience.

The setup was one of those multi sim setups with the stage in the middle of four sims so more people could be present and he was impressed and surprised about how many people did turn up and the fact that there were people from Australia and Ireland in attendance as well as Americans (and of course other nationalities).

I really should have taken notes, it was a very interesting presentation and we didn’t crash once, although there were some technical difficulties at the start as Rod got his head around where to look to see the questions being sent to him.

Overall it worked well and it was good presentation, I’ll have to keep my eye out for more of this kind of thing.