> Speaking of aliens, Babylon-5 is back!
> It's occurred to me that Banks and Vinge are like Star Trek and
> Babylon-5, respectively, but with much more SF imagination. Or that
> Banks is a Trek version of Vinge. Or what Trek should have been.
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the GSV
Greater Enterprise Than Discretion. My voluntary five year mission
is to seek out strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new
civilizations in need of help, to boldy meddle (for good reasons)
in what no sophont has meddled in before."
Hmm, Spock would make a nice drone...
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