Re: Star Trek background (was... something else)
From: "Mike Wikan" <mww@n...>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:17:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Star Trek background (was... something else)
> Fascists? Surely you mean communists. They seem to have abolished
> all money, get from people according to their ability, give to
> them according to their needs etc.. The Federation seems to be an
> idealised version of what the Soviet Union used to pretend to be.
> (Have you ever read the old Soviet constitution?)
>
> Remind me... didn't McCarthy run all the commies out of Hollywood?
>
> American children are being corrupted. Cool.
>
> [B5, OTOH, is just the same thing the other way round. Earth =
> America with all the bad-juju conspiratorial trimmings that are
> fashionable. Black helos become black starfuries, even...]
>
> --
> David Brewer
>
Mike Wikan
Game Design\Conceptual Art
n-Space, Inc.
A Producer of 3D Entertainment Software
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