"Masque of the Red Death" anyone?

Ugh, please for the love of god, no one look at my above post. Could not have been more wrong. Appy-polly-logies to bk.

Or vice versa. Trek pre-dates Strangelove.

OK, cool. Guess you're right, I thought it might veer toward fantasy, but thinking about it, it definitely has plenty of sci-y elements. Yay.

"I'm gonna have an abortion and I CAN'T WAIT."
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Yeah, I wouldn't have that kind of restraint. Oldster story (spoken in creaky geezer voice): Back in my day, pre-VCRs, definitely pre-'nets, I bought the Star Trek Compendium so I could dutifully check off each new ep I caught after school to be *sure* I'd eventually see them all. Last ones to go (meaning months of…

Hitchcock hated having to waste time on the believability of plot elements in sacrifice of the overall emotional arc. He derisively called people (like me) who pick apart every plot inconsistency, "The Plausibles."

I tend to like my sci-fi on the visual spectrum of movies/TV rather than literary. A friend recommended Ender's Game which I enjoyed, but I was not compelled to continue the series. Unless Dune qualifies as sci-fi which is one of my favorite books of all time.

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Thaaat's it, thanks! Yeah, guess you'd need quite a cleanup crew.

I've never had the guts to read Barker, but that story sounds frea-kay. Dude's got one fucked-up imagination.

Good points, all. The more I think about it, despite the flaws in storytelling, the ep speaks pretty eloquently to the dangers of sanitizing war (or maybe depersonalizing is the word), wherein combatants are greatly removed from their targets/victims, e.g.: the Atom bomb where an entire city is destroyed by one push…

I've toned down my spelling/grammar snarks (not completely, alas) but I understand that the volume of work the writers have and the speed in which they must produce will cause some errors. I mentioned the above because it is clearly a typo, not a misspelling, and gives the sentence a bit of a different meaning.

Yeah, I like that too.

Before your molecules disperse, I'm pretty sure you meant to type "fReeing a planet from its dark overlords," methinks.

I'm waiting for Clay Aiken's high-end premixed White Russian, SPRM.

It's true, I think that the writers figured that presenting a 500 year war would presume a lot of cultural imperatives without spelling any of them out.

Didn't see your post before adding mine above but that's exactly what I was thinking.

I think a population that was raised with such a longstanding "tradition" of willing suicide wouldn't need convincing since it's such an established part of their society. Kinda like turning 30 in Logan's Run and Renewing.

Yeah, I meant thematically, not plot-wise.