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Was There Money in the Original “Star Trek”? To the Editor: In the December 2004 issue of The Freeman, P. Gardner Goldsmith criticizes “Star Trek” for foolishly postulating that we could do without money. He presents us with an argument of the following structure: X is stupid; someone told him that “Star Trek” creator Gene [...]
8Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedScience Fiction and Economic Fiction
Thomas Macaulay Boudreaux, age 12 and my only child, is a huge fan of Star Trek. Actually, even an italicized “huge” doesn’t quite capture the extent of Thomas’s fascination with, and knowledge of, the franchise. From Captain Pike through Mr. Spock to Ensign Sato, Thomas knows and loves anything and everything Star Trek. So in [...]
23Oct2009 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Economic Fantasy of “Star Trek”
Gardner Goldsmith (ELGGRANDE@msn.com) is an independent journalist and screenwriter in New Hampshire. A friend of mine is an award-winning science-fiction novelist. When we first met, I happened to mention to him that I was working on a science-fantasy novel, just as he was. He bristled. “I write science-fiction, not fantasy,” he said. “Those two genres [...]
1Dec2004 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 19 comments | ContinuedThe Starship Private Enterprise
Timothy Sandefur is a law student at Chapman University in Orange, California. The television series Star Trek has inspired a whole generation of astronauts and space scientists. Its optimistic vision of humanity’s future in space has been credited with the wide popularity of what has become one of the most successfial entertainment franchises of all [...]
1May2000 | Timothy Sandefur | 2 comments | ContinuedStar Trek and Collectivism: The Case of the Borg
Dr. Yates is adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). Star Trek is easily the most popular science fiction epic of all time. Over the past three decades, the saga has [...]
1Apr1997 | Steven Yates | 3 comments | Continued-
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