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This is based a little on Star Trek The Next Generation. I noticed that it was not quite as exciting a show as Classic Trek, because so many things that seemed wondrous and a little scary in the first show, had become routine, with the rule book written and way too often rigorously followed.  I think both other Viewers and the Writers must have noticed this too because the next four shows took different paths. One was about a Space Station, one was about Voyager which got, “lost in space” and thus could not follow the rules and the next two have been Prequels to the first show. Oh Future, you cannot know OUR loneliness!                                                                                               Ours is different from your own:               YOURS has other Life forms in  it. We are alone!                                                                                                                                          But Future how I pity you!                                        For your plight's so different from our own:                                                             OUR Universe has Friends and magic Monsters in it. Your Universe is known. We can dream and wonder New                                                                      But YOU know your fate! Would we have tried so very hard for you                                               If REALITY had been the bait?                                                        Would WE have tried so very hard to find                                                                                                                                                     That life is not as alien as it seemed?                                                                                                                                                                                               Your adventure's only politics...                                                                                                                                                                       WE had our DREAMS!
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Jan 8
Jan 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM UTC
I PITY YOU FUTURE
This is based a little on Star Trek The Next Generation. I noticed that it was not quite as exciting a show as Classic Trek, because so many things that seemed wondrous and a little scary in the first show, had become routine, with the rule book written and way too often rigorously followed.  I think both other Viewers and the Writers must have noticed this too because the next four shows took different paths. One was about a Space Station, one was about Voyager which got, “lost in space” and thus could not follow the rules and the next two have been Prequels to the first show. Oh Future, you cannot know OUR loneliness!                                                                                               Ours is different from your own:               YOURS has other Life forms in  it. We are alone!                                                                                                                                          But Future how I pity you!                                        For your plight's so different from our own:                                                             OUR Universe has Friends and magic Monsters in it. Your Universe is known. We can dream and wonder New                                                                      But YOU know your fate! Would we have tried so very hard for you                                               If REALITY had been the bait?                                                        Would WE have tried so very hard to find                                                                                                                                                     That life is not as alien as it seemed?                                                                                                                                                                                               Your adventure's only politics...                                                                                                                                                                       WE had our DREAMS!
See this in color with pictures at http://tinyurl.com/poemsoffaithandevolution
#startrek#future
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elizabethhensley
68/F/United States
Jan 8
Jan 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM UTC
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