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When the Bough Breaks
posted by sukhisooSTAFFMOD on February 26, 2018 at 12:38 PM
Picard is, once again, presented with a win-win situation: Get rid of Wesley and gain some knowledge for the federation. Naturally, he turns it down and spends lots of effort to have Wesley and some other tykes returned while rejecting any new knowledge.
This wasn't as painful as I remember, but it wasn't exactly a classic. I do appreciate the environmental message that was added. Many regard such messages in Star Trek with scorn, but it really is important to be reminded of these issues. I just wish that the episode itself was a little better.
Some thoughts:
"Humans are unusually attached to their offspring." This is a necessary survival feature. Since it takes soooo long for a human to develop and be able to feasibly survive on one's own, it is imperative that a parent have a strong attachment to an offspring. Do Klingons have a strong attachment to their offspring? How about Romulans? This isn't covered very thoroughly in Star Trek as far as I know.
In the future, children will be learning calculus at about the age most of us were fighting with long division. I kind of hope this turns out to be true.
Reply by Knixon
on February 26, 2018 at 7:08 PM
Experience seems to suggest that people will actually learn/know less and less - except about stuff like "Gender Studies" - and will simply rely on more advanced gadgets to do things for them.
Reply by revengine
on February 27, 2018 at 4:01 AM
Knixon your reply genuinely made me lol, thanks. So, not only "Gender Studies" (actually lots of things that end in the word "Studies") but "Critical Theory" and other marxist/leftist crap. But you're right, we're actually getting stupider on the whole. The gadgets are getting better but the information we can retrieve on them is being censored/edited/revised by aforementioned marxist/leftist idiots cough Zuckerberg cough
Reply by Knixon
on February 27, 2018 at 2:22 PM
The information IS available, if people relied less on the gadgets.
But it could easily lead to "Idiocracy." Problem is, even that relies on a certain number of people who are actually smart, to keep things going. And often having to pretend they're NOT smart, in order to protect themselves. I don't know if I would have been so willing to serve that purpose even when I was younger, and I certainly couldn't be bothered now.