Posted on 04/01/2017 8:22:43 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
I’m sorry, apologies in advance, but women are terrible Scifi writers. This women could be among the worst with her overtly racist novel.
“Why are there no Muslims in the Star Trek series?”
There are no Amish or Muslims in popular science fiction because science fiction is usually set in the future. Those societies are firmly set in the past. As an author it becomes difficult to weave together threads that don’t match. While Muslims, more than Amish, are likely to pick up modern tools, they use them to watch porn or kill people. Muslim society by present day Western norms is perverted in every way.
Taking the issue from another perspective, how many legitimate Nobel Peace awards have gone to Muslims for science or literature? Darned few in comparison to Jews and Christians.
Islam is a seventh century cultural cancer now being imported into the healthy tissue of the West. But the real enemy of the West is liberalism. It’s hard to imagine anything more destructive than liberalism. What a great marriage; liberalism and Islam.
I read the Divergent series.
Not bad; written for a teen audience. Interesting dystopian premise with rather engaging characters discovering their great secrets about reality.
The core flaw is the intensely advanced technology & culture with chronically insufficient population to support it: there’s an ongoing sense that the city only has a few hundred occupants but functions on a level requiring 1000x more. As such, the story feels unsettlingly out of touch with what should be reality.
Engaging, but not compelling.
That was mentioned in the original series as well - and don't forget the Eugenics Wars are part to Trek canon as well. Khan was apparently a Sikh, so that's a hint as to what became of Muslim populations. You could build some seriously controversial "fan fiction" off of that, to the point where Paramount's lawyers start sending threatening letters. :-)
Klingons are analogous to a Bushido entrenched culture, honor above all else. Vulcan’s adherence to logic and suppression of emotion to avoid endless warfare, appear to relate to the Buddist’s philosophy of seeking a path to minimize suffering. Ferengi embody the persona of space-faring used-car salesman.
The science fiction genre often offered up concepts that predated actual developments, sometimes inspired real life. Smart phones anyone?
Is that all? I was sure the thread would be complaining that muzzies weren’t in charge of deep space exploration.
/snicker
Sikhism is not Islam.
Well step one is don’t support hacks like Roth. Really Divergent is terrible and plays in all the boring hackneyed sci-fi symbol tropes.
Hard to believe you missed the redoubtable Brock Peters, who played Admiral Cartwright in the movies and Benjamin Sisko’s father on DS9.
Apparently he found it very difficult to play such a xenophobic character as Cartwright in Star Ted VI, even though the major theme of the film is overcoming old prejudices.
Yeah, I know. Sikhs tend to dislike Muslims rather strongly - hence my observation.
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