READ THIS

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http://jonathanmoeller.livejournal.com/556661.html?view=1217653#t1217653
It is the most fantastically telling and hilarious deconstruction of a fictional universe (the Star Trek one) I have ever read, and it is followed by a suggestion from superversive that is even better. Absolutely brilliant, and it will light the light of a thousand plot bunnies in any fan's mind.

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[filialucis]

Hmm.

I have nothing of substance to add to the discussion, so I'll put this here rather than over at the blog you linked to, but I'd be interested to know why exactly you "detest the ST world so much", as you said over there?

I loved Star Trek while I was growing up (I'm talking TOS; never had many opportunities to see the subsequent series and never really caught onto the ones I did see), but despite that the Trek universe as such always seemed rather two-dimensional and sterile to me. And I knew from the word go that there was something seriously off-kilter about Roddenberry when it came to religion (my very first exposure to anything Trek was the book version of ST:TMP, and the line "We all create God in our own image" had me mentally raising an eyebrow and thinking Spockian thoughts about human illogic), regardless of the presence of a chapel on the original Enterprise.

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I could go on for a very long time, but the mistaken idea of humanity is at the centre of my issues with ST. Funny you should mention Spock: the very notion of separating emotion from reason is the centre of everything I object to. Add the PC nonsense and you have a serious issue, which is not always made up for by excellent acting and frequent invention.