Why Technology Won’t Save Us
How the Star Wars vs Star Trek debate has now officially been settled.
Source: “Science Worship” by jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The camera pans around to Captain Kirk, his gaze stoic – yet – genial, as he negotiates with an alien, whose face fills the massive video screen at the forefront of the Enterprise’s bridge. Kirk receives the alien’s outrageous demands with a smirk as he stiffens his back slightly as he readies himself to dismiss them. He will tell the eight-eyed creature how things are really going to go, with a confidence that comes not only from experience, but from something greater. And you’d be forgiven if you thought it was the technological might of the Federation’s armies. For all their impressiveness, it is not what that fortifies Kirk’s nerve. It’s something much mightier than photon torpedoes.