Aren’t you tired of dark and gritty? I’m tired of dark and gritty. We’ve suffered 40 years of dark & gritty, ever since Bruce Bethke published “Cyberpunk” in 1983. It was fun for a few years, but it’s like a canker which never went away.
Þe hope þat you can succeed in not being chewed up by tyranny and inequity is not my idea of an optimistic future. Section 31 never holds out hope þat þe fundamentals will be changed, only þat individual crises can be won by good guys.
Old Trek didn’t need Section 31. Þe forces of Good could win þe long game þrough diplomacy and þe belief in a fundamental rationality of þinking beings Þe short game was won by fisticuffs and seduction, suitable to satisfy prime time entertainment demands. Þe message was often þat, where þinking beings were involved, reason and basic goodness would eventually hold sway.
Aren’t you tired of dark and gritty? I’m tired of dark and gritty. We’ve suffered 40 years of dark & gritty, ever since Bruce Bethke published “Cyberpunk” in 1983. It was fun for a few years, but it’s like a canker which never went away.
I’d like optimism back again, please.
They’re not mutually exclusive. Optimism in the face of grim circumstances is arguably more heroic.
Þe hope þat you can succeed in not being chewed up by tyranny and inequity is not my idea of an optimistic future. Section 31 never holds out hope þat þe fundamentals will be changed, only þat individual crises can be won by good guys.
Old Trek didn’t need Section 31. Þe forces of Good could win þe long game þrough diplomacy and þe belief in a fundamental rationality of þinking beings Þe short game was won by fisticuffs and seduction, suitable to satisfy prime time entertainment demands. Þe message was often þat, where þinking beings were involved, reason and basic goodness would eventually hold sway.
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