Abandoning Earth : comments [Funk Babblings]

1) Survival more important than justice: Yes, but I wonder how many of the people espousing views like Hawking's really think it through this far.

2) Effectiveness of space preserving humanity without more social progress: This seems to be one idea explored by the current Battlestar Galactica series. I figure that human nature is unlikely to change no matter how much the technology does, and sending populations into space sends the sociopolitical problems along too. How these things hurt the chances for survival, however, is hard to predict.

3) At least in the Brannon Braga era the canonical Star Trek view seems to be that contact with the Vulcans made humanity somehow come together as one and solve everything. Actually I think Roddenberry himself was more interested in using futuristic settings to comment on current social issues, rather than truly attempting to posit a potential or desirable future. So maybe I should be slamming Braga more than Roddenberry.

Come to think of it, Roddenberry's Andromeda series may have taken a more realistic view of what might happen with Earth in a post-space-colonization future.

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Come to think of it, Roddenberry's Andromeda series may have taken a more realistic view of what might happen with Earth in a post-space-colonization future.

I dunno. I thought that was more "The Magog are coming to eat you!" ;-)

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Er, before the Magog came to eat everyone.....

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Before the Magog came to eat everyone, everyone lived in an idyllic, happy, globe-trotting galaxy, until the genetically-engineered Nietzschians (sp?) betrayed humans, and then everything went to hell in a hand-basket, with humans reverting to what we think of as more realistic. Remember time-traveling boy scout Dilan Hunt's culture shock when he realized he wasn't in Roddenberry's Star Trek universe anymore?

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