Who Mines The Dilithium?

Hot Air ^ | May 15, 2009 | Doctor Zero

[publius911]

This is another example of a job that is laborious, hard on people, and not very much fulfilling.

No problem.
Simply a lack of creative imagination.
Simply use limited range transporters with circumscribed range.

No harder to imagine (and fail to explain), than the warp drive.

One of the benefits of fiction.

[SunkenCiv]

> More evidence of the absurdity of the twenty-fourth century’s flimsy Utopia is easy to find. In the series “Deep Space Nine”, Captain Sisko’s father was an expert chef who ran a restaurant in New Orleans. He might indeed have been cooking because he enjoyed it and found it fulfilling, but what about the people waiting tables in his restaurant? Is that your fate if you score poorly on the benevolent Federation’s aptitude tests? A “D” grade leaves you slinging crawdaddies in Sisko’s restaurant, while an “F” means it’s off to the dilithium mines?

They’ll just “get stuck in Iraq” because they never “bettered themselves”.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Or is the future Earth filled with layabouts who just watch holographic game shows and replicate Hot Pockets all day?

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In a “Star Trek” world a large portion of the population would enter the “holodeck” and never leave.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Dilithium is conveniently found on primitive planets.

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Is it anything like “unubtanium?”