Virus Alert: Double Entendre [Not a story segment]

[WilloWisp]

By this point, it's probably become obvious that the majority of the episode titles in the Virus Alert saga have another, often more poignant meaning besides the obvious and straightforward (although I'm still waiting for anyone to figure out what was hidden in Code Play). This is even true of the season titles listed in the episode guide, and will only become moreso as the story progresses.

I say the majority because there is one glaring exception: Episode 1.25 - Awesome Track.

Awesome Track was written back when I still didn't realize what Virus Alert was going to turn into, and my tangled knot of a multi-season arc story hadn't even coalesced into anything resembling a plan. I was just excited that I had been so suddenly inspired, and so the episode was named casually and haphazardly. It doesn't have any kind of secondary meaning, which makes it stick out like a sore thumb - to me, at least. I knew, deep down, that I had given it the wrong name, but I wanted to just get the story out there, even if the title wasn't quite right.

In a burst of what the French refer to as "l'esprit de l'escalier" (literally "staircase wit", but basically means "You know what I should'a said?"), it suddenly occurred to me that there was a single, correct name for that episode. So, having discovered the true name for episode 1.25, I can hardly leave it as it is right now. Which means it's time for some revisionist history.

Henceforth, episode 1.25 shall be known as "Prog Rock". That is all.

[WilloWisp]

Good deal Willo! NOW WRITE MOAAAR! please.

Your wish is... well, something I was already doing anyway. Still, I'm confident we won't be facing another hiatus anytime soon. Hopefully not until the end of season 6.

[liliwinnt6]

I have a thing of hacking into gynoids, that means I love reading your story, Willo!

[WilloWisp]

The irony here is that Virus Alert is no more about hacking into gynoids than Star Trek is about computer programming. In fact, some time around season 5, it will become obvious that it's hardly about hacking at all. Even the title Virus Alert has a double meaning, but the full implications of that second meaning are a fair bit down the road from where we are now.

There's certainly nothing wrong with computer programmers loving Star Trek for its frequent use of computer programming terminology and its invocation of programming terminology and occasional description of the abstract logic underlying specific algorithms... but there is a bit more to Star Trek than that.

And I like to think that Virus Alert handles programming, hacking, and even robotics with slightly more realism and plausibility than Star Trek sometimes handles computer logic. I'm looking at you, Holodeck Moriarty.