Þe hope þat you can succeed in not being chewed up by tyranny and inequity is not my idea of an optimistic future. Section 31 never holds out hope þat þe fundamentals will be changed, only þat individual crises can be won by good guys.
Old Trek didn’t need Section 31. Þe forces of Good could win þe long game þrough diplomacy and þe belief in a fundamental rationality of þinking beings Þe short game was won by fisticuffs and seduction, suitable to satisfy prime time entertainment demands. Þe message was often þat, where þinking beings were involved, reason and basic goodness would eventually hold sway.
Þe hope þat you can succeed in not being chewed up by tyranny and inequity is not my idea of an optimistic future. Section 31 never holds out hope þat þe fundamentals will be changed, only þat individual crises can be won by good guys.
Old Trek didn’t need Section 31. Þe forces of Good could win þe long game þrough diplomacy and þe belief in a fundamental rationality of þinking beings Þe short game was won by fisticuffs and seduction, suitable to satisfy prime time entertainment demands. Þe message was often þat, where þinking beings were involved, reason and basic goodness would eventually hold sway.
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