SIHA 2025

Alien nucleic acid sequence project.
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 In 2024 I awarded a Retro-SIHA to a Star Trek episode, "The Corbomite Maneuver". Here in 2025, I began my annual Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens in April and I was not impressed by the crop of new films about space aliens for this year. I wrote: "I have to wonder if a large language model could devise a more interesting science fiction movie than can people working in Hollywood."

 SIHA 2025 Nominations. In August I tried creating my own script for a Hollywood science fiction movie: Earth's First Telepath. My story began on the Moon where Manny the bumpha is training an Interventionist agent for a mission on Earth. Most of the story takes place on Earth where Manny is ready to reveal not only Earth's first telepath (Tyhry), but also Tyhry's ability to use advanced programmable nanites to cure genetic diseases.

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In October, Claude generated a script for "The Manhattan Project: Beyond Trinity". Sadly, that AI-generated film was contaminated by the kind of cliche plot elements that I've come to expect from Large Language Models. 👎

"A Trinity Intervention" is a story that I wrote in October which was intentionally designed as my own entry in the 2025 SIHA competition.

Here in December, I've been watching episodes of Pluribus. Pluribus is in the running for the alien invasion story that has the least screen time for the aliens. I can't suspend disbelief for the plot idea of an alien-designed RNA molecule that can turn people into zombie-like components of a "hive mind". However, out of politeness I'm nominating Pluribus for a SIHA award.

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In July, I had a blog post with Part 7 of an outline for a "Contact" television program. I'm tempted to ask Claude to write a script for this imaginary television program, but sometimes it is better to leave story ideas in my imagination rather than watch a chatbot mangle the idea.

Tyhry and Brak

In November, I wrote several episodes of a science fiction fiction television series titled "Intervention". While I was creating this Intervention television program, I thought of it as the type of television show I would want to watch and as being an entry in the competition for a 2025 SIHA award. "Intervention" begins with Tyhry showing Brak how to use the Reality Simulation System. Brak's first visit to Deep Time is a brief visit to the year 1869 in the Ekcolir Reality where President Lincoln is still alive after completing two terms as president. Nyrtia the probot had altered the life of Lincoln as part of her effort to accelerate the pace of technological development in the Ekcolir Reality.

Sedruth and Rylla in 1869. (source)

In the second episode of Intervention, Rylla has brought out of the Ekcolir Reality Simulation and into the Final Reality a copy of the Interventionist agent (working for Balok the bumpha) who played the role of the first wife of Thomas Edison. That Interventionist agent was a Huxy femtozoan who had been inserted into the body of Mary Stilwell in 1859, shortly before Mary met Edison.

Having met the 'Mary Interventionist' and learning her Huxy mind pattern, Brak is able to trace her Interventionist path through the micro-Realities of the Ekcolir Reality. It becomes clear that in the 20th century, she played the role of another Mary Stilwell who was a writer for Star Trek in that Reality. In Episode 3 of Intervention, Eddy, Rylla, Zeta and Marda use the Ekcolir Reality Simulator to attend a science fiction fan convention at a point in time just before the first episode of Star Trek was televised in that Reality.

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 Episode 4 was the last episode of the science fiction television series titled "Intervention" that I wrote. In that episode, it is revealed that by making use of the Sedron Time Stream, the episodes of Intervention that were televised in the Ekcolir Reality were all based on actual events in the Final Reality. Also, Episode 4 reveals how it became possible to produce sedron fuel for interstellar travel in the Final Reality.

 And the Winner is.... The 2025 SIHA award winner is the imaginary television program "Intervention" which depicts a battle in the Time Travel War between Nyrtia and Manny.

Related Reading: SIHA 2024.

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