“The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence.”

Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 210 – Ship in a Bottle – After Dark

— References —

• Dune, Herbert (1965)
• Star Trek, Roddenberry (1966)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roddenberry (1987)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, Sternbach and Okuda (1991)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Berman (1993)
• Star Trek: Voyager, Berman (1995)
• Stargate: SG1, Glassner (1997)
• Farscape, O’Bannon (1999)
• Star Trek: Enterprise, Berman (2001)
• Battlestar Galactica, Moore (2004)
• Star Trek: Discovery, Fuller (2017)
• American Pravda – Racial Discrimination at Harvard, Unz (2018) – https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-racial-discrimination-at-harvard/
• Fire Upon the Deep – Speculative Fiction and the Sci-Fi Universe, Myth of the 20th Century (2019) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/fire-upon-the-deep-speculative-fiction-and-the-sci-fi-universe/
• How to deal with China, The Economist (2021) – https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/20/how-to-deal-with-china
• Why ‘Islamic’ Trended After a Mass Shooting in Boulder and ‘Christian’ Did Not After One in Atlanta, Ali (2021) – https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-islamic-trended-after-a-mass-shooting-in-boulder-and-christian-did-not-after-one-in-atlanta
• Trafficking in Persons Report – https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/