With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

In the Season One episode, " The Road Not Taken ", Olivia described the experience of déjà vu to Walter after she briefly experienced an alternate reality as the result of being a Cortexiphan subject.

It was in fact an alternate reality game.

A more recent development, the alternate reality game, is intrinsically tied to the concept ; an ARG may exist solely as a collection of false documents that build a fictional storyline and puzzles connected to it.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

In the alternate reality of X-Men: Ronin Iceman is a murderous ninja in the employ of the Hellfire Club.

New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of Iceman, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternate reality in which Professor X was possessed by the Shadow King.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

Layouts are physical props intended to simulate a sort of alternate reality where life is easier than either the grim existence of the colonist in their marginal off-world colonies, or even Earth, where global warming has progressed to the point that Antarctica is prime vacation resort territory.

Eldritch offers to help Mayerson “ become ” whatever he wants, but in fact is so manipulative and controlling of the CHEW-Z alternate reality that Mayerson ultimately decides he'd rather be dead than continue to be manipulated by Eldritch.

A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history / alternate reality, and space travel.

Voyager was not attacked in the restored timeline ; so the alternate reality when Kes got the warning wouldn't have taken place.

In the 2009 Star Trek film, which takes place in an " alternate, parallel " reality, McCoy and Kirk become friends at Starfleet Academy, which McCoy joins after a divorce that he says " left nothing but bones.

The defeated combatants were either transported to an alternate reality where medical technology was advanced enough that they could be revived from any wound or transported to the alternate reality that was Valhalla.

In the alternate reality of X-Men: Ronin, the story is played out in Japan.

The princess is saved from a second death when the alternate reality Mort created is reduced to a pearl-like state.

* Steven Lisberger's 1982 film Tron explored the idea of virtual reality ; transporting real-life characters into an alternate, computer-generated world.

* Marvel 1602 – Mutants are known as the " Witchbreed " in this alternate reality set during the time of The Inquisition.

* In the Nephilim role-playing game, an Akasha is some kind of alternate reality bubble, whose existence and content are based on the thoughts and dreams of the humans.

In this alternate reality, Willow is an aggressively bisexual vampire.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

Some of these languages, e. g., in worlds of fantasy fiction, alternative universes, Earth's future, or alternate history, are presented as distorted versions or dialects of modern English or other natural language, while others are independently designed conlangs.

While continuing on X-Factor, Cyclops proposes to Jean and she meets her alternate future daughter Rachel Summers ( who goes by the codename " Phoenix " as well and is also able to tap into the Phoenix Force ), but she rejects them both out of the feeling that they indicate that her life is predetermined.

In the alternate future called " Marvel 2099 ", various power struggles over the fate of Latveria end with most of the country destroyed by nanites.

In the alternate future timeline of Titans Tomorrow, in which Conner still exists, Luthor acts as a caring, fatherly figure to him.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

References to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict crop up quite frequently in Anderson's fiction, through various analogues and the conflict's past, future, and alternate permutations.

Anderson set much of his work in the past, often with the addition of magic, or in alternate or future worlds that resemble past eras.

In an alternate future episode, " Endgame ", the Doctor adopts the name Joe, and marries a human female, named Lana ( played by Amy Lindsay ).

In the series finale, an alternate future timeline is shown where he has chosen the name " Joe.

In an alternate future, Alexander becomes a diplomat instead of a warrior.

In an alternate future, Worf had been reluctant to become involved with Troi and her subsequent death led to a rift between Riker and himself as a result.

With the intervention of a future / alternate version of herself, Janeway leads her crew in using one of the Borg's transwarp conduits to return her ship to Federation space after having traveled through the Delta Quadrant for seven years.

In an alternate future, seen in the series finale " Endgame ", Seven and Chakotay marry, though she dies before Voyager reaches home and Chakotay dies in 2394.

It also renders the events of Kes ' future, including her marriage to Tom Paris as well as her daughter Linnis, into an alternate timeline that never comes to pass.

In the series finale " All Good Things ...", it is revealed that in an alternate future, Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard had been married and then divorced — still evidently having feelings for each other after so many years.

In the alternate 2390 future in Star Trek: Voyagers " Timeless ", La Forge is a captain and the commanding officer of the USS Challenger, doing his best to stop Harry Kim and Chakotay from altering the time line.

The USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ) responded to the outpost's distress call and engaged the Romulan ships, but was defeated and taken with its survivors ( among them a version of Lieutenant Tasha Yar from the future of an alternate timeline ) back to Romulan territory.

In " All Good Things ...", the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise-D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek: Generations, and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship.

In the " Days of Future Past " timeline, which takes place in an alternate future, the " Omega Sentinels " have advanced technologically and become the de facto rulers of the United States.

In the alternate future depicted in Marvel 2099, an alien attack floods much of the earth rendering the Savage Land the only inhabitable space.

The game was first published in 1984 during the Cold War and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an alternate history.