Today I'm going to talk about Star Trek. Ok, Ok, have your laughs and get it out of your system already!
I know that killing your enemies with a single photon torpedo while they have all guns firing at you is a tad unrealistic, but think about the larger implications of this franchise; there is life outside this planet, outside the galaxy we inhabit, outside galaxies that surround ours as well. Other beings, other life forms, other forms of energy, dimensions of time that exist in parallel with our own, the possibility of multiple dimensions, it's so rich!
I find it a fascinating concept and its never failed to draw my attention to the exciting possibilities that it has to offer.
Imagine meeting another form of life that may or may not be vertebrate. Imagine they were a peace loving species, one that does not feel the need to conquer or mutilate owing to their own internal insecurities. How would we be able to handle them? Rape and kill them due to our collective fear of losing control over what we perceive to be our personal space?
Or would we be so bold so as to actually learn something from them? Can we foresee ourselves as being so open so as to be open to another fresh, interesting idea, instead of rehashing old ones time and time again?
Mind you, in that day and age the human race has eliminated hunger and poverty!So an idea like that may well be improbable.
But we tend to make the same assumptions that issues that exist in this day and age will continue till the 23rd or 24th century or whatever: Imperialism, Fascism, Deceit, War, and anything else gory. Which is why I find the franchise a tad too presumptuous in thinking that these issues wont be solved given the extent to which humanity as a species has evolved in the past 300 years!
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