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There's a paean to Star Trek in today's Times that is bad enough when you take it on its own but becomes much more depressing when you realize that forty years from now someone's going to be writing something like this about The Wire. Still, the author recalls some of the interesting dilemmas inspired by the show:

"Star Trek" painted a noble, heroic vision of the future, and that vision became my lodestar. As I grew into adolescence, the show provided a handy reference against which to judge the questions that my young mind began to ask: What is the obligation of a free society toward the less fortunate? Does an "advanced" culture have the right to spread its ideas among more "primitive" ones? What does it mean to be human, and at what point do we lose our humanity to our technology?

Also, "What do I have to do to get someone to suck my cock?" But, you know, family newspaper, etc.

Mr. Universe [NYT]