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To: EveningStar
Isaac Azimov was a far-right conservative, as was Gene Roddenberry.

And Bobby Fischer has a love affair with Jews.

17 posted on 01/31/2005 1:46:32 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Lazamataz
I get it. ;)

BTW, I understand that the Prime Directive was based on our Vietnam policy.

33 posted on 01/31/2005 1:57:09 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Lazamataz
Isaac Azimov was a far-right conservative, as was Gene Roddenberry.

Roddenbooby? The 'man is perfectible through technology/ money is what corrupts man/ future socialist utopia' Gene Roddenbooby?

Hey, I love the original series, but, frankly, after that Roddenbooby's political outlook is ridiculous.

36 posted on 01/31/2005 1:57:48 PM PST by atomicpossum (I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
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To: Lazamataz
Isaac Azimov was a far-right conservative, as was Gene Roddenberry.

I didn't know Roddenberry personally, so I can't refute this, but I will say he allowed an awful lot of non-conservative world view to exist in Star Trek. Especially the Next Generation/DS9/Voyager series. I realize that the episodes were written by various people, but Roddenberry as executive producer sure allowed a lot of stuff in there that made me gag.

54 posted on 01/31/2005 2:08:25 PM PST by dfwright
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Roddenberry was a conservative? I never knew that. It seems like he was a pro-UN type, given the kumbaya vision of the TNG show...?


57 posted on 01/31/2005 2:10:50 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: Lazamataz
Isaac Azimov was a far-right conservative...

I'm a fan of Asimov, but he was no conservative.

Some people are hard to place in politics, because they combine libertarian tendencies with "progressive" tendencies.

I am unaware of any mainstream writer from the golden age who fell for communism. but I suspect many were democrats. This era -- 1920-1960 -- was when mainstream writers were kissing Stalin and Castro's boots and glorifying revolution.

H.G. Wells was supposedly a socialist, but he didn't put it in his sci-fi.

112 posted on 01/31/2005 5:05:26 PM PST by js1138
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