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0 pointsWalterBright5y ago0 comments

Star Trek is a hollywood fiction.

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imtringued5y ago· 1 in thread

All quotes are equally worthless so I don't know why you bring that up.

People quote people because they want to express the same sentiment but they believe someone else did it better. Not because they believe the quote to be an absolute truth.

WalterBrightOP5y ago

Picard's "wisdom" does not come from a man experienced in battle and leading men and flying a starship around the galaxy.

It comes from a person who has likely commanded nothing more than a typewriter. The real world does not work like the fantasy saccharin world of Star Trek, and wise sayings from it being applicable to the real world would just be happenstance.

Smaug1235y ago

“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.”

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