No Need For Trek Anymore

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 3, 2005 @10:31AM from the where-no-one-has-gone-before dept.

dcsmith writes "In an article at the LA Times, Orson Scott Card says 'So they've gone and killed Star Trek. And it's about time.' SciFi blasphemy? Not really. Card makes several good observations about the growth of SciFi over the past 30+ years. The article also comments on several other genre gems, including Joss Whedon's Firefly." From the article: "...the hungry fans called their friends and they watched it faithfully. They memorized the episodes. I swear I've heard of people who quit their jobs and moved just so they could live in a city that had Star Trek running every day."

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Re:Orson Scott Card by Future+Man+3000 · 2005-05-03 10:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

If anything, his background enhances his SF writing. I disagree that he's insane (although I reject his opinions in that essay) but I've noticed that much of my favorite science fiction has been written by people with radically different opinions or, um, mental deviations from contemporary social norms.
Part of what makes this country great is the (unfortunately declining) encouragement to tolerate people that are wrong. The alternative is worse.

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