Benjamin Ragheb lives in New York City.
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“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”
Oh, Roddenberry, you brilliant hippie idiot genius, I love you.
*Hmmm yes. People should do some research our Gene. Might find out where his humanitarian tolerance was born. Yup....
Warhammer 40,000 has humanity mostly safe due to rampant xenophobia. In that setting, the things that go bump in the...