Why are Atheists afraid to insult Islam and Jews?

[Hatshepsut]

Now at the risk of pissing off Star Trek fans...[who might] flip out when you tell them the show did not invent anything.

I'm hard to offend. I just love when Mr. Spock raises his eyebrows since you know some emotion has  to be there. For emotion itself is a part of intelligence, associated with the brain's limbic system. Persons whose emotions are disordered have serious problems and don't make intelligent decisions as a rule. So I see truth when you say that Star Trek  distorted a lot of stuff.

It's also quite true that the science of Star Trek  is absurd, except maybe the handheld "communicators." Star Trek  was mostly a sociological and political commentary, in the original series taken from the Cold War American ideal. That "don't interfere" Prime Directive and first thing Cowboy Kirk does is sock the shy native who is spying on the landing party after beam-down! Yet for me in 1974, reruns of this show were godsent in the universe of drivel littering network TV you got via rabbit ears. The only action-adventure alternatives were The Six Million Dollar Man  with Lee Majors or Hawaii Five-O 's "book 'em, Danno!" Leonard Nimoy's writers did acknowledge emotion in Spock in their own little subtle ways. Theodore Sturgeon wrote for them once.

I think the human group joining-or-dividing over any criterion is called "fission-fusion" society. Just like those fission-fusion bombs in the world of wartime physics!