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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [QB] [QUOTE]And to be fare to Bernd here, this isn't about SW vs ST. That argument is, quite rightly, boring. It's about, in a large sense, how having a web-site and using complicated maths is a great way of getting anyone to believe whatever you want.[/QUOTE]Thanks. This is what I wanted to annotate too. The two sci-fi universes are just not supposed to be compatible. Even more, they are designed *not to be* compatible, so the distinction would be better. Comparing the apples and oranges may be fun for certain fan circles, but even if Wong would respect his own rules, the result would be absolutely pointless. So why do I care about this obvious nonsense? Because Wong uses his calculations and close observations to impress his clientele. "Look, he has figures and screencaps, that can't be wrong." Because Wong stirs up real-world and fictional elements. Just read about the transporter. He hates the concept as unrealistic and because it would be immoral to kill and resurrect someone. Okay, he is entitled to his own opinion, although this is by no means how the transporter as a story concept works in ST (he obviously confuses this with his personal idea of the transporter in the real world). But he has to find an excuse why the Empire is not using the transporter, although its technology is (as he always "proves") vastly superior to that of the Federation. His explanation is that the Empire does not use the transporter because it is immoral! The Empire that has no bad conscience destroying whole planets! And this, of course, fits with his other observations that the Federation is ruthless and racist and communist and whatever evil he likes to find in it. If this isn't perverted, I don't know what is. On a related note, we all know how fond Wong is of physics as the only true science. Actually, on his site, he calls social science a "pseudo-science". But he has the nerve to assess the type of society of the Federation as being communist! So either Mike Wong has a very short memory concerning his own ideology, or he thinks he is better than all the morons who have studied social science. And for those who still don't believe, read his page about racism, all of it. It's the page where one can find most of his violations of his own principles in a compact form. One-sidedness would be a too mild term to describe how he excuses possible racism in SW, while taking offense about all sorts of occurences in ST. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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