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For the life of me I cannot remember, it may have been in some DS9 episodes about Dr. Bashir. But I believe it was stated that eugenics had effectively eradicat
by A_COMPUTER 12y ago
For the life of me I cannot remember, it may have been in some DS9 episodes about Dr. Bashir. But I believe it was stated that eugenics had effectively eradicated a lot of social ills before the issue of genetically-augmented superhumans led to the Eugenics Wars.
Honestly the takeaway of this is that questions like "do you want to live in Blade Runner or do you want to live in Star Trek" don't work because Star Trek is more fantasy than science-fiction when it comes to how some of that stuff works.
- nitrogen 12y agoWe can't literally live in Star Trek's universe because, so far as we know, the laws of physics don't allow FTL travel. But, there are numerous elements of Star Trek's society that are worth trying to achieve, even if we don't have to go about achieving them the same way the writers envisioned. As others have mentioned, it's just fiction. It's not a roadmap to a destination; it's encouragement to build that destination ourselves.