Star Trek taught us that “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one)”.
The Charlotte Observer reminds us just how unrealistic that statement is in real life. I cannot count how many times I have heard stories like this one, stories that illustrate just how badly we need to pay more attention to Star Trek.
Our society today places so much weight on thinking about the needs of the one, or the few, rather than the needs of the many, that we are pretty much exactly the opposite of that simple premise.
Consider another recent story, this one about a neighborhood who asked the city to stick to their plans (plans they set twice, no less), and was turned down because a single absentee owner disagreed. So what is it? Why is it that in nearly all cases, the single dissenting voice is so roundly accepted, and the others so routinely dismissed?
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2 responses to “We Need More Star Trek”
You’re right, of course – I probably should have named it We Need More Vulcans or something instead…
Of course, the movies, after ST2’s “needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few/one” (Spock’s motto) eventually decided in ST3 that “the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many” (Kirk/humans’ motto).