Sunday, August 10, 2008

Technobabble vs Environment

Star Trek rant again !

The Deep Space Nine episode I'm re-watching at the moment (might not be for long, might skip it) has a rather curious story running through it. You'd usually expect Star Trek to champion the environmentalist utopia cause, however this one is about as Anti-Environment as you can get.

Ok - the core of the story is that one of the senior officers has been sent to evict some farmers from a moon so they can wreck it by stripmining its core for energy. So that's a habitable moon, with viable farming land going to get made uninhabitable in the pursuit of power that could easily come from an alternate source like solar.

Curious is one word, Insane! is another ! The one constant we'll find when we eventually break out of Earth's orbit and unleash ourselves on an unsuspecting galaxy is that inhabitable planets and moons will be as rare as hen's teeth. So real estate where people can live and grow food should be prized above all else.

Back to Star Trek ... but I'll be distracting myself with getting some food ready.

PS Getting to read a bit of Heinlein's Time Enough For Love. This one comes after quite a few of his timeline novels and I'm getting to read it again after reading some of the more key books in that timeline. It has Heinlein's typical wit running through it and has definitely got me laughing at what's coming off the pages :-)

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