Charlie Stross Hates Star Trek
13th October 2009
Apparently the show’s writers would just insert a marker in the script that would be filled with technobabble later.
As you probably guessed, this is not how I write SF — in fact, it’s the antithesis of everything I enjoy in an SF novel.
Hard to blame him. And yet, being a socialist, he favors government doing the same thing on a grander scale. You’d think he could connect the dots.
Unfortunately, writers and other ‘artistic’ people, many of demonstrable talent and intelligence, just can’t seem to extrapolate from X is stupid when group Y does it to It’s still stupid when the government does it.
I guess Gary Gygax was right: Intelligence and Wisdom are separate rolls.