> Heh. It would appear so; that oftimes fiction carries more appeal than reality. Familiarity with the familiar references that one sees every day breeds contempt, it seems. I toy with the idea of re-framing truth as fiction -- to give it a greater mystic allure and a fighting chance in this world, as it were. But that approach carries its own hazards, not the least that it comes across as an underhanded way of approaching 'What is real'. And yet the best books, programs, and films -- and other works of fiction that we enjoy the most -- are precisely the ones that preserve the greatest enduring truths about our place in life.
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Exactly, it always iritated me when people reduce Star Trek to a show about people with rubber ears. All the series, especially The Original Series is about being human. The characters are all very human, even the aliens. Spock and Data are two of the most human characters ever on TV. And each series would deal with issues of the time. The Original Series was lucky that it came out during the sixties, a great decade for social issues (racism, Cold War, Women's rights, etc.). That is the roll of myths, stories, and legends, to show us ourselves from another vantage point. To allow us to see what we really are, for better or for worse.

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