Star Trek and Idealism vs cynicism

[MarkB]

A Columbo-style police procedural featuring a Betazoid detective who knows exactly who's guilty and just needs to uncover evidence that's admissible in Federation court.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That’s what I’ve been saying! Golden Age murder mysteries but with weird science.

Well, that’s settled then. All we have to do now is corner the Paramount execs in an elevator.

 

[payn]

A Columbo-style police procedural featuring a Betazoid detective who knows exactly who's guilty and just needs to uncover evidence that's admissible in Federation court.

 

[NN]

CYNIC​

-n.

A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

 

[jian]

CYNIC​

-n.

A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

I think the myth was that Scythians blinded their slaves, not cynics, to control them - it’s probably just a myth about how the Greeks considered them to be savages.

It is interesting since we’re in the classical mode that cynicism (“like a dog”) as a philosophy actually meant rejecting social norms and goals of seeking wealth or fame and living a virtuous life by living simply and virtuously, so these days it would mean something more like non-conformist or anti-capitalist. Which is actually pretty Federation but of course the Federation has its own stifling social conventions.

 

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[Bedrockgames]

That sounds about right

 

[The Soloist]

Picard season one, although hated by many, proved to be somewhat prophetic with the current rise of fascism around the world. Maybe, Star Trek's Third World War will happen after all.

Cynic

 

[billd91]

This is how we know it's science-FICTION. That's even less believable than warp speed.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Picard season one, although hated by many, proved to be somewhat prophetic with the current rise of fascism around the world. Maybe, Star Trek's Third World War will happen after all.

Cynic

The utopian fantasy is that anyone survived.