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If you had to live in a fictional magical world, but you wouldn't be magical, what world would you pick? (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Does Star Trek count as magical?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think it's just sci fi

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But there's Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought... Pretty magical stuff there...

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. ๏ฟผ

    The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. ๏ฟผ

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You may be more familiar with it than me.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well then, I'd say this is a good excuse to familiarize yourself with it and tell me for sure.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Does that apply to any universe or just Star Trek?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Any universe. I recall reading a fun fantasy book that played with this idea under the premise of a guy who discovered he was in a simulation and hacked admin access, decided to go back into Arthurian medieval times to be a wizard with his new tech powers, and ended up there with a number of other sysadmins who had the same idea.

    It wasn't the best written book, but the concept was definitely novel.

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