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To: bitt
https://gab.com/EWH/posts/110231404671867250

WOW!!!!!

WOW is right. Did some poking around and found this from imdb ...

Harrison Bergeron

A made for TV move from 1995 with Sean Astin, Howey Mandel, and Christopher Plummer.

In a distant future, egalitarianism has created a truly equal state. The cost? The sacrifice of everything great about humankind. The question: is peace worth the price?
759 posted on 04/21/2023 12:38:06 AM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: tang-soo

Star Trek: The Next Generation had a similar episode called “The Masterpiece Society”. An isolated colony was formed 200 years prior to create a perfect society using genetic engineering and selective breeding, but a fragment of a neutron star is heading towards them and threatens to destroy their colony.

They reluctantly allow Enterprise leaders to visit in order to help their brilliant scientists find a way to deflect the star fragment. They collectively find a way to save the colony, but the exposure to the outsiders has stirred discontent among some of the colonists, who now want to leave the perfectly balanced and interconnected society. The final irony is that the solution to dealing with the star fragment was found in the visor technology that allows a blind engineer on the Enterprise to “see”. That technology wasn’t imagined by the colonists because nobody is ever born blind due to their genetic engineering.

The Captain of the Enterprise mused at the end that, while they saved the colonists from immediate destruction, the cultural contamination resulting from their interaction may have still doomed it.


793 posted on 04/21/2023 7:19:46 AM PDT by LittleLinda
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