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> Uhura : But why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century, we've learned not to fear words.
by imglorp 5y ago
> Uhura : But why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century, we've learned not to fear words.
- CRConrad 5y agoYeah, that only shows how stupid the original Star Trek often was. Just because they hadn't yet had a Trump or a Hitler in Uhura's century is no reason for her not to know that "words" are exactly what scum like that rises to the top on.
- imglorp 5y agoAgree, the scum is leveraging wetware vulnerabilities in our species around sound bites, tribes, labels, and twisted facts. But I think that was Roddenberry's point: we can only advance after excising that primitive baggage.