To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Nehemiah R Hall 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

I would like to know why you say Star Trek is not scifi. Star Trek is, in
my mind, to show what humans can become. And part of this is to see how we
would and should react to this kind of thing if we encounter it. Nehemiah
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:12:46 -0400 "Joseph Manno"
 writes:
> GS - I can understand this statement for the human animal. Is it also
> an
> assumption that what is best for humans is best for everyone?
>
> JM - Absolutely not---
>
> ---but that point's not applicable to Star Trek.
>
> If Star Trek is not primarily, nigh exclusively, about the human
> condition,
> it's NOT Star Trek. If the aliens don't represent an element of
> society or
> address a societal issue, well... they're a waste of forehead
> makeup.
>
> As Kirk says to Spock, "I've got news for you. Everybody's human."
> And Kirk,
> as usual, is 100% right.
>
> One of the reasons the Ane don't resonate with me, for example, is
> that I
> sense nothing of humanity in them. They're wonderful sci-fi, and I'd
> love to
> read about them in most any other universe... but they're not very
> good Star
> Trek, in my eyes.
>
> This doesn't address the value of your work in any way. It simply
> underpins
> the different assumptions we make when writing in this genre. I
> wouldn't
> venture to say I'm closer to its ideals than you (especially not
> when I
> occasionally write erotica); I would say, though, that we stray from
> the
> ideal in radically different ways.
>
> IDIC. YBYW.
>
>
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