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Hi Warren.
You certainly seem to know your Star Trek. One thing about ST was that
they said "we have evoved beyond the need for money" yet they still beam
down to planets where currency is in use and, usually, get involved in the
obligatory bar room brawl.
One the other hand, B5 most definitely does have currency though it is not
often talked about. In one episode, however, one of the telepaths,
actually a telekinetic, I think it was the beautiful Lyta Alexander (the
actress Pat Tallman, yes!) is playing around with a coin and fires it into
a wall. It is quite easy to see in close up that the man on the obverse of
the small, braown coin is Earth President Lincoln ( or someone very like
him).
The first book I ever read was The Clipper of the Cloudes by Jules verne.
I was a precocious, home educated 4 year old. After that, I read
H.G.Welles, and Aldous Huxley bools like Brave New World and After Many a
Summer. It became clear that I was a budding science fiction addict. When
we started getting dirt cheap American Sci - Fi paperbacks used as ballast
by ships and sold by the hundredwight, I was in heaven, reading Astounding
and Amazing by the dozen. TV then, as now, was mainly rubbish. In fact,
during my 20s, I was reading 5 SF paperback a night. I just couldn't put
them down
This upset my wife greatly.
So, eventually I estimated I had read thousands of SF stories.
Naturally, I tried watching the TV offerings such as Last in Space, a bit
like Pigs in Space but meant to be serious. I watched the series UFO made
in 1969 - 70 but mainly for the women in their tinfoil uniforms. The same
went for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - total rubbish but Colonel
Dearing showed that a woman could be incharge while remaining pretty and
feminine, unlike the modern, butch feminists whBTWo run the UK.
I am glad we agree on TOS and Uhura BTW, only a glorified telephonist but
very decorative.
As for the politics. No, can't agree, socialism is not a bad thing and
does not lead on to Communism. I did once read tThe History and
Constitution of the USSR and even they agreed that a modern society cannot
be Communist. That will not work above village level. The nearest thing to
communism was the life practised in the Israeli Kibbutzim but it won't
work at city level, let alone country level.
I do believe that America shot itself in the foot when, with the help of
Own Goal Gorbachev, they destabilised the USSR. After a few lean years
with trouble from th Russian Mafia, Russia and the CIS is just as
capitalist as America and part of the BRIC states (Brasil,Russia,India,
China) which are set to take over the world, economically if not in other
ways. In fact the US owes China many billions of $$$$. The former 'Commie'
China that is.
Enough of politics and economics. I only mention them becaus ethey are
part of Sci Fi.
BTW. I do not like Science Fantasy and Sword 'n Sorcery though they seem
to be popular on TV. Lara Croft and Xena, Warrior Princess, the 'X-Men'
are all beneath contempts. I would rahter watch ST than them.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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