arrrgghhhhh!!!!!
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Originally posted by mandara k:
Whoa, Flame back the shuttlecraft up a little. No violence? What about Klingons? No disease; why are there so many shows that are based on fighting one disease or another?hi mandara and all, actually, rereading flame’s post, he said a show where we weren’t destroying ourselves over politics and religion, and technically, at least in the original series, he is right…whenever those old coots got wrapped up in a fight they were usually brought to their senses or at least showed remorse (remember their first encounter with romulans? they tried to stop, but the romulan culture did not permit surrender)…yeah, there was violence,but the theme was to try to avoid it or end it as soon as possible… [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] yeah, i know, sappie 60’s scifi sentiments, but we loved that stuff… [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] and in keeping with the idealism of the original series, yes, there was the theme of hoping to wipe out disease and famine…
We are not ready to colonize space yet; we can’t even agree on how to get this planet up and running right; IMHO if man individually and collectively cannot find a way to control himself we will just take the bad and good that is man right into space with him. That frightens me. It’s scary enough that they are doing a p—— contest with nukes and wmd’s!
while i share your pessimism, there is a large part of me that likes to aspire and hope, that is the part of me that likes the optimistic scifi like star trek…it is also the part of me that i don’t share with others who are not into scifi; these days more people can understand the cynicism and darkness of lexx, and not ask me if i wear little green ears to scifi conventions [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]