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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 07:11:23 -0500, The True Melissa   
    wrote:   
      
   >Verily, in article <10m88p3$1dcpp$6@dont-email.me>, did ldo@nz.invalid    
   >deliver unto us this message:   
   >> The rise of CG has helped somewhat. But it doesn?t get around the   
   >> basic fact that the whole premise behind the ?Star Trek? franchise   
   >> is, at a fundamental level, quite absurd.   
   >   
   >Which part are you calling the premise? Do you mean the utopian aspects,    
   >or the FTL starflight and transporter and other science fantasy?   
   >   
   >Older Trek had the attitude that we'd evolved beyond all the petty    
   >hangups of our Earthbound days. I suppose that's absurd, but it's also    
   >aspirational.    
      
   And it made /The Journey Home/ a major hit because it contrasted their   
   behavior with ours.   
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   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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