Okay I restarted my computer and I can see it now.
It's like spaceship windows made out of glass...that can crack.
Maybe this is a different "FBI".
Could be it stands for "Fraternal Brotherood of Introspectionists"....
It would be potentially funny though, a time traveling organization devoted to the continual examination of their own mental and emotional processes.
LOL...Communications Stones 2.0 (plus time travel)?:
The story follows a team of FBI agents from centuries into our future, who have the capability of sending their conscious minds back in time to the twenty-first century.
This sounds like the Communication Stones concept to me, only with time travel. I wonder why Netflix picked it up sight unseen? Brad talks a good game and he has a long history with Stargate and productions so they may have just "taken his word for it" to go with the project. Does not sound that interesting to me, but who knows? I suspended my Netflix account in November.
Some Stargate veterans are on the show behind the camera, including Amanda Tapping. GateWorld wrote up a good article here:
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2016/...time-travel-drama-travelers-from-brad-wright/
FBI agents from centuries into our future
Yes, Post #3. Maybe it's just me? None of my browsers can reach Wikipedia right now. DNS errors.
Okay, but can you see it in your post? I see a big gray blank.
These ‘travelers’ assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren (McCormack), the team’s leader; Marcy (Porter), a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David (Gilmore); Trevor (Abrahamson), a high school quarterback; Carly (Cooper), a single mom in an abusive relationship; and Philip (Dolman), a heroin-addicted college student.
Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions. (from the Gateworld article)
The above description of the characters they are sending back to "save the world" certainly inspires confidence... Another example of the "wrong people?"
He has re-wrapped the Communications Stones concept, as I said earlier. It is a failed premise that will never catch on as scifi. It is a big reason why Stargate Universe could not use them as a core element in the show. I think Brad envisioned the concept as being based in science instead of fantasy, and therein lies the problem. In order to "transport" somebody's consciousness, there has to be a framework of some sort. Even in the TOS episode "Spock's Brain", the physical brain had to be removed to transfer consciousness into the computer system. In the Janice Lester episode, the consciousnesses swapped bodies TEMPORARILY, after a process requiring both persons to be connected directly to the machine. It works as an invasion premise involving takeovers of a body to facilitate control, but that cannot be turned into a tool like a transporter. It's just lame.
The concept is dead no matter how he wants to package it. I can believe he sold the idea to Netflix verbally, but audiences won't be thrilled IMO.
Spock's Katra is not the same as a complete consciousness. He imprinted it into McCoy's brain using the full strength of his being before death. Anyone who has had a traumatic event happen to them which imprints an indelible memory can relate to the katra concept. When Spock's Katra was united with his Genesis body, Spock had to relearn much of what he lost in the process (on Vulcan). It is not the same, and it was not a regular occurance in any of the series of Star Trek to routinely displace one's consciousness. Brad Wright is using it as a plot device like he did with the comm stones in SGU and that is the fail. Adding in a temporal component is double the fail.