Greg Cox wrote:
RAMA wrote:
Vampires are boring...*yaaawn*
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Obviously.
What, some people prefer different flavours of stuff. I'll never entirely get the American love of superheroes, personally, and I generally prefer vampires to zombies. So it goes.
Temis the Friendly Ghost wrote:
Is a Trekkian utopia really all its cracked up to be? if forced to live in utopia, would humans go nuts and prefer the Hobbesian struggle for survival? [...]
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The Future is a Utopia where every wish can be granted with a push of a button; the Past is a constant struggle for survival.
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I don't know if I'd just assign the utopia as the Trek end of things. Captain Kirk seemed to spend every other episode rejecting paradises and extolling the virtues of human struggle.
...so Captain Kirk versus Captain Picard?