Posted on 08/19/2012 3:56:19 PM PDT by EveningStar
Sorry to all you Star Trek fans out there. I may be the only science fiction fan in the universe that really hates his guts. He stands in the annals of history with Karl Marx as one of the most vile perpetrators of socialism and communism this planet has ever known. I call him the used philosophy salesman…. and he was good at that job, one of the best.
Today is the anniversary of his birth and I have been constantly reminded of this all morning. Tributes everywhere I look to the man who turned the brains of a generation of science fiction fans to utter mush. If only he had passed on ten years earlier. We would never have had to put up with the inane techno-babble ramblings and neo-communist preaching of the Next Generation.
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...or a greenophobe.
My response would have been, "Then talent, skill, and a better you is your currency."
At least the Pilgrims gave us a bitchen Holiday, Thanksgiving!
>>Although it boggles my mind how you dampen ‘inertia’!
It uses the same basic principles as the warp field, di-lithium crystals, FTL subspace communications, and time travel by slingshotting past the sun.
It’s FICTION. Superman can’t really fly either. :-(
Star Trek existed in a post-scarcity society. I don’t think you could really compare it to our current situation.
Exactly. Any force not acting equally on all parts of the craft would cause terrific stress focused on the attaching points of the spindly struts between them. OMG! I’m turning into Sheldon Cooper!
P. S. I am honored to have received two replies from you since you became a celebrity.
Firefly was better.
Try Firefly.
The anti-Star Trek.
Beat me by 4 seconds!
GMTA.
My mother turned off the TV during that episode.
I did manage to watch it during re-runs.
Star Trek was pure liberal fantasy.
They always spouting off about “The Prime Directive”
(non intervention into other planets affairs for you non Trekkies)
Then,in nearly every other episode, they violate it.
Otherwise they’d have no show and be aimlessly drifting in space!
I did mention it was liberal fantasy, didn’t I?
While I agree with you it has never stopped me enjoying it!
Yeah I do love me some firefly.
Oh, man - the Orion Slave Girl! I wish I had a buck for every time I’ve had (and still do have) nasty thoughts about her...
It always struck me that it was “after-the-fact” that Roddenberry started embracing a kind of mushy philosophical we-are-the-world liberalism, sort of catering to the youthful fans who kept applying pretentious liberal contexts to “Star Trek” (which in his mind was conceived as “Wagon Train” in space... hardly something more).
Anyway, Roddenberry’s rarely-seen earlier series, “The Lieutenant,” about the military in peacetime, is coming out on dvd this very month. I suppose the episodes can now be scanned for attitudes and ideologies. But like Roddenberry’s “Have Gun Will Travel” scripts, I doubt much will be found in those terms.
That's Dr. Sheldon Cooper!!
“...folks that studiously ignore the implications of replicators...”
So where do they the parts and energy(especially the energy) for the replicators when the replicators break down?
(I know, I know The Hologram?)
“...folks that studiously ignore the implications of replicators...”
So where do they get the parts and energy(especially the energy) for the replicators when the replicators break down?
(I know, I know The Hologram?)
“Plato tried it with his Republic and the Perfect Society.”
Plato’s Republic was never put into practice anywhere. He may have wrote the work in 380 B.C., that did not make it an introduced practice of any government anywhere; none of the Greek governments or the Romans.
That does not excuse the governments that were in practice at the time - tyrants most often; it’s just that they did not attempt to copy Plato’s Republic.
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