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Yus. Him and Wynn.

Worf! No! Stand down! This is a friendly match. n_n

No no no. It was their fault. You want to rule with a more benevolent hand, but they force you, with their ignorance of your superiority, and lack of gratitude for this great gift… SHOULD HAVE KILLED THEM ALL… And that is why you’re not an evil man.

Heh. I just watched that episode last night.

(… for about the 30th time)

We want to ensure maximum chaos should something go wrong

I was sure that title was going to be about contemporary politics.

I can understand that. It didn’t bother me as much. The singing episode …

Glad I didn’t go further.

Corroborating

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

and such, I’ve come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akj4EGPiQEY … interesting for anyone interested in pedagogy and psychology and sociology and so on. Johan Hari on Peter McCormack, “We Built A World Humans Aren’t Designed For”.

It seems like awareness of this is increasing,

and shall increase even more as the mismatch of provision and needs widens as ai and robots increasingly take up more and more of what industrial education had been conditioning us to be the robots for. Our robotification shall become farther out of reach of worth, into redundancy, revealing our real worth.

Johan Hari puts it better than my mangled clumsy verbosity.

So it’s like that line from Good Will Hunting: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

Yus, this. Thanks for the vid. Good stuff

Oh please. Surely we’re of better moral character than the Q already [On the bridge of the Enterprise D]. At least by example of the mischievous loud one most seen. We can do far better at aiming high, than to aspire to Q. … “What was it they called you on Brax, the god of lies?”

I enjoy Strange New Worlds fo

I’ve never managed to get that far. Because (like is stated and elaborated upon in the original post)…

The entire universe feels different.

Breaking coherence very early on in the first episode, to such an extreme, I cannot bring myself to carry on watching. It’s like someone forgot the brief on what and who Vulcans are, what their culture’s like, and did not pass it on to writers, directors, nor actors.

Part way reading through that, I began to wonder, the when, and what was happening then, …

It seems, Trek lost its way in this moral regard, after Voyager, …so, after 2001. 2001… so, after the PNAC plan kicked into action with their unifying false flag terror attack?

Can’t help also wonder about maybe the slippage had already begun earlier… perhaps, showing the fringe of the federation, evoked, in a “what if all art a tool of manifestation” sense, sanctuary districts. Overdue mends… Where’s our Bell?

And as I near the end, I think of the pale moonlight, and yup, you rightly mention it too. … It’s haunting, as Sisko closes the episode, trying to convince himself he is okay with it. New fake trek would have just blasted past that like it was nothing of consideration at all.

I’m glad there are others who see this too, and can put it to words as well as you have there. Good stuff. Maybe we who care about the essence of trek can revive trek. … I’ve already got various notes taken for an outline for a new trek in the same spirit as TNG, DS9 and VOY, accumulating over years. I wont be the only one. … How long before some start to churn it out via LLM? [Edit: <- Oh look, that’d be like thinking the ends justify the means.] I’d rather make it for real.

All the whitewashing narcissistic sadistic psychopathic machiavelianism, as seen in the fake trek (especially the most recent), is clearly not star trek.

The older Star Trek made an extraordinary effort to maintain coherence.

Character coherence.

Ethical coherence.

Political coherence.

And even scientific coherence, as far as science fiction could reasonably achieve it.

And it can be again. :)

Make it so.

Yeah for sure there’s a mix, different usecases, and it’s just handy to illustrate the other extremes, to elucidate others of the existence of these other paradigms otherwise beyond their ken. Some of them may indeed likewise have been a star shaped peg trying to fit in a square shaped hole, not realising there are ways that fit them better.

So much exhausting bureaucratic organisational downtime in college between ladles of info, perchance you’re fit for it when they pour it, compared to just freely swimming in the ocean of information.

It takes some kind of self motivation, be that curiosity, dedication, purpose or something else.

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

Also then there’s the perspectives that value education above mere preparation for employment roles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEWdRPRf3I x2?

i will take an airplane

… why not a spaceship.

only seconds slower than destroying yourself where you were and re-creating yourself where your copy goes.

Leave [that] school.

You can learn more, faster, at your own pace, with a library card and an internet connection (if you use it like a library, not like TV).

You could also try walking your teacher through the user agreement… paying special attention to the deal with the devil clause, where they can change the agreement after you agree. And the parts about how they use all your data, and how they consider your emails their property after 90 days, and and and… So many egregious points. So against the spirit of pedagogy that any educational institute should be about.

Here’s hoping they’re squeezing so tight as to make more people slip out of their grasp, drop their borg boxes, and return to being real humans.

That’s debatable.

That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.