From: Betty Ragan ragan@sdc.org
Virtual reality makes anything possible, but where anything is truely possible people become uncomfortable. Is anything what it seems to be? Can you expect the laws of physics to stay in effect?
Although, truthfully, things turning out to be exactly what they seem to be and consisitency in obeying the laws of physics are not exactly major properties of the show itself... :)
A lot of fanfic goes off in all manner of strange directions which lose touch with the canon, but could be hauled back into canon through the use of cyberspace (in the Gibsonesque use of the term). When I was working on a now long-aborted PGP, I envisaged a scene with a shotgun-toting Avon flying around on a winged horse (admittedly I concocted it deliberately to take the piss out of people who actually go for that sort of thing). Virtually anything is possible. The only real problem is getting the characters into cyberspace in the first place - I find it hard to imagine the whole crew jacking in simultaneously without a bit of authorial contrivance, though one or two at a time wouldn't be difficult.
Neil