That 60s Show...and that Liberal American Mentality

An essay on the original Star Trek and its impact on one SF writer (and likely many more) in the New York Times op-ed area:

Mr. Universe by Ronald D. Moore (writer for the current Battlestar Gallactica series), NYT, September 18, 2006.

“Star Trek” painted a noble, heroic vision of the future, and that vision became my lodestar.

As I grew into adolescence, the show provided a handy reference against which to judge the questions that my young mind began to ask: What is the obligation of a free society toward the less fortunate? Does an “advanced” culture have the right to spread its ideas among more “primitive” ones? What does it mean to be human, and at what point do we lose our humanity to our technology?

That 60s Show...and that Liberal American Mentality

An essay on the original Star Trek and its impact on one SF writer (and likely many more) in the New York Times op-ed area:

Mr. Universe by Ronald D. Moore (writer for the current Battlestar Gallactica series), NYT, September 18, 2006.

“Star Trek” painted a noble, heroic vision of the future, and that vision became my lodestar.

As I grew into adolescence, the show provided a handy reference against which to judge the questions that my young mind began to ask: What is the obligation of a free society toward the less fortunate? Does an “advanced” culture have the right to spread its ideas among more “primitive” ones? What does it mean to be human, and at what point do we lose our humanity to our technology?