Tag: Star Trek

In a recent rerun of Star Trek some of the dialogue of William Shatner mentioned the ‘first colony’ on some planet ”in 1992′. In the heady space age dawn of 1968 that must have seemed like an achievable and worthwhile goal, and when you think of what 1992 was really like it gives one pause…

One language, one set of laws for all, no passports. Is this a better way to run human civilisation? If you think these are things that make up human civilisation I would assume so. If you think that difference automatically leads to conflict I would assume so. Except in this better world view everything is…