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'Star Trek': An idea whose time is gone, Fans just wouldn't let the series go, but we've graduated. Now we have excellent choices in sci- fi

ORSON SCOTT CARD. Orson Scott Card is an author, his most recent book is "Shadow of the Giant." This is from the Los Angeles Times, where it first appeared

2005

Overview

Here's what I think: Most people weren't reading all that brilliant science fiction. Most people weren't reading at all. So when they saw \"Star Trek,\" primitive as it was, it was their first glimpse of science fiction. It was grade school for those who had let the whole science-fiction revolution pass them by. Through-line series such as Joss Whedon's \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" and Alfred Gough and Miles Millar's \"Smallville\" have raised our expectations of what episodic sci-fi and fantasy ought to be. Whedon's \"Firefly\" showed us that even 1930s sci-fi can be well acted and tell a compelling long-term story. 1) Illustration by Paul Corio-Caricature's of [Kirk-Spock], Captain Kirk, Bones of 'Star Trek' on a sinking Enterprise. 2) Photo - Orson Scott Card

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