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It's also how you get The Culture and The Affront.

Fiction is about interesting tales, not about realistic forecasts — TOS Khan was supposed to have ruled in the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.



Fiction is often a warning. You ignore & dismiss it at our collective peril.

This community specifically needs to be told when NOT to do things. Because wide-eyed naivety is a feature of technologists.


The same fictional universe that gave us Khan, also gave us the characters of Julian Bashir, Una Chin-Riley, and La'an Noonien-Singh all having to deal with a socity that, in universe, had faced this as a history lesson rather than as a fantasy.

Were the Ferengi a warning against American capitalism? The Bajorans a promotion of terrorist tactics to expell imperialist colonisers? The Changelings a warning against… plastic surgery?




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