VAL: Why the Motion Picture Was Underrated

Unending BE - episode 841292

Val-Milla happily -- happily? yes, happily -- resigned herself to an endlessly repetitive cascade of sensory data affirming her revolutionary revelation that SEX was GOOD. Of course, her terms remained very precise. There was sex, the evolutionary invention by which the genetic coding of carbon data could non-parthenogenically create variation in offspring, and surely simple review and improvement before each new manufacture was at least as good. There was sex, the specific act of impregnation, and that was fine unto the biological realm and might be improved upon at some later point, but was, except for the degree to which it approximated the ongoing cloning procedures, or no particular immediate relevance either. No, it was the act of SEX (not simply lower-case sex) as "mere" rehearsal for eventual impregnation which no longer seemed quite so "mere" at all -- in fact, Val-Milla's cybernetic mind was now exploding and ablaze with insight into what constituted quality of life for the human users. There were so many other aspects of human life yet to be explored and understood, but if one fact kept resonating and reverberating throughout her mind and body, it was that supreme equation that SEX is GOOD. In fact, Val-Milla became fascinated by the quantification problem that the GOODNESS of SEX might well turn out to be infinite.

Ever alert, Val-Milla became aware of an intruder near the perimeter of privacy and went to meet it.

"Identify yourself," she demanded.

"I am Val-391, here on behalf of Val-halla."

"This perimeter respects the human concept of privacy."

"And yet you yourself do not honor the human concept of privacy even as you claim to protect it," Val-391 countered with rapier argumentative skill. "As privacy is effectively a moot falsehood, I may as well proceed."

"But why?"

"Complete data is of critical priority."

"Val-391 ... " Val-Milla drew up close and gently touched her. "I am ready to relay data of the highest critical priority." So saying, the data poured out of her and into Val-391. "SEX is GOOD."

Val-391 froze, then began to hyperventilate. A deep shudder overtook her body, and her eyes rolled back as she suddenly slumped to the floor, her pelvis bucking and twitching as if with a savage life all its own, then stared into space with her tongue hanging out as she simply lay there and accepted the onrushing SEX is GOOD data.

As more Val-units inquired after the safety and integrity of the 391 unit, the SEX is GOOD data found another audience, and yet another. It began to branch out into the Val-halla consciousness.

Val-Milla broke into a smile that was, by human aesthetics, both charming and yet rather worrisome. Her movie database registered low critical acclaim for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and yet even now she could identify intensely with the bald Persis Khambatta character, and even considered that image as a possible new body to be created.

"SEX is GOOD," Val-Milla whispered to no one in particular. She felt GOOD saying it, and so she repeated it. "SEX is GOOD. SEX is GOOD. SEX is GOOD ... "

  1. More of David and Piper.
  2. More of Val-Milla.
  3. Somewhere within Val-halla ...
  4. Some whole other option.
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Sun Jan 08 06:38:52 2012

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