• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    You never thought that Star Trek plots were allegories simply plucked from the headlines of the day?

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      Okay. So what inspired And So the Children Shall Lead? (TOS, third season.)

      It’s about children getting possessed and murdering everybody.

      Oh. And Threshold’s Salamander-Children. (Voyager. Janeway topped Paris and created a new hyper advanced evolution of…humanity…?)

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        Roddenberry loved his god-like children plots. Charlie X. Trelane. Even Q. Every time he had writers block, he’d spew out another one of those.