Amish

Hey, what book is it where it says that Kirk's parents had Amish neighbors?

 

Hey, either Fonal Frontier or Best Destiny. Or both.

 

Yeah, I looked on MB, but it wasn't clear. Asking because I found the link and started the Amish page there on the strength of that.

 

It's Best Destiny page 36.

 

Evidently, on occasion they enjoyed buggying over into Mennonite-country to kick some ass...

 

Thanks. Googled the passages and they don't say much beyond the fact that the people still use horses and buggies, even in the 23rd century.

I've been toying for a while with the idea of what a

Spoiler: story idea

Star Trek universe-set Amish romance might look like.

 

Amish? They're the individuals in America who for some ridiculous reason hate technology aren't they?

 

They don't hate it, they just resist it taking over their lives. When it serves a useful purpose, they'll get on board, but adapt it for their use or use it sparingly. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/amish-technology.html

 

Good for them I guess. If it wasn't for modern technology, I wouldn't be alive, nor would millions, if not billions of others.

 

I meant that they want to use it in ways that make their lives better and their families safer/closer.

 

Good for them I guess. If it wasn't for modern technology, I wouldn't be alive, nor would millions, if not billions of others.

 

TNG: "Intellivore" (strange, strange book) has some kind of space-faring Amish in it.

 

Not Amish, but in Burning Dreams there is a group of people in the 23rd century (on a colony world at that) who intentionally limit themselves to 20th century technology.

 

I read it once years ago and was left fairly baffled by it.

 

Also not Amish, but who can forgot the Neo-Transcendentalists of TNG's "Up the Long Ladder," or the colonists in DS9's "Paradise?"

Is there an echo in here?

Kor

 

Clearly.

 

That's nice.

Kor

 

Spoiler: In case this is story idea territory

Their having emigrated to America for religious freedom (and they continue to start new settlements - one recently in PEI) makes it a natural extension for them to later be ideal interplanetary colonists as well.

 

Dumping them on some other random planet with no means to leave would be the best solution.

 

Cheers.