I have been something of an addict over the years too Matt. I am highly critical of the science and the soap opera morality and wish we could try something less obviously edifying and 'American'. 'We like Star Trek, but why are there no Arabs in it?' asks the Saudi. 'Because it's set in the future', replies President Bush (pick from two equally evil). Janeway has a few genocides to account for. Warp travel is essentially flawed - the Hawking radiation would get us. Still, it whiles away the hours! Q could be George W playing with his military toys and foreign policy!
My own story concerns the birth of relativity-travel (we age only 30 years in travelling to the 'edge of the universe', but it ages 15 billion years as we 'get there'), new genetic form including GROCS that render lying a poor strategy and give pleasure and learning beyond current imagination and a Cathar sect determined to stop relativity-travel in order to prevent any human future so that there can be a general return to the preferable nothingness. Here lies the opportunity for fresh ethical debates - what would the love between man and woman be when procreation was robotised, sexual pleasure as nothing compared with GROCS-based intensity, Machiavellian plotting doomed to pathetic failure (it is now isn't it?) because learning is so easily shared, dishonesty so difficult to maintain and over- population 'cured' by two world wars and humanity (such as it might become with genetic control) not confined to a time relative only to the heat death of the sun and our own destruction of the planet? GROCS is a genetic-relational open communication system (my thanks to Orn for introduction to grok). I will never finish the writing if I attempt to explain all. Chris and I are returning to Moonbase Three after a year mining new life from a Jupiter moon - a somewhat mushroom- enlivened period as we had to work GROCS-free though strange gravity and zero gravity, playing adolescent games with early 21st century porn and women-fancying (to better understand the mentality that had led to WW3 and 4), though we already live lives without this on what is left of Earth. Harem dreams are as nothing once one can GROCS, reproductive fetish (what woman in this new world would want the pain and time-consumption of pregnancy) as nothing when one can build new life that can travel the universe, pleasure so intense and varied one can listen to Beethoven's 9th as a connoisseur might, learn as the best can ... one might boldly go beyond the replacement of the horse by Enterprise or Voyager. On 30 Sep, 12:34, Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote: > I love the series, it gives me fresh ideas. And has good moral and > ethic debates. I like the Q episodes. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZSw7ojvw8&feature=related --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
