re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Brings to mind an old National Lampoon bit about “Amish in Space”

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One of the interesting and almost prescient aspects of much (but not all) of Blish’s work is that he postulated a future that would still include relatively unsophisticated people. This is in contrast to work like the original Star Trek, in which not only educational standards but intelligence itself seem to have progressed almost beyond recognition. Ironically Blish himself was hired to write the Star Trek novelizations, which he did as faithfully as possible to Roddenberry’s optimistic vision.