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A bit over 10 years ago, I'd been working my way through a book titled The Ethics of Star Trek. I usually speedread books, but this one had so many concepts involved that, well, I won't say I struggled to get through it, but it was so detailed and compact that it became more of a love/hate relationship than anything else... and I still enjoyed it.

I might read it again someday

Of course, one can't talk about the ethics of Star Trek without talking about the ethics of the captains of each series, at least through Enterprise (I haven't watched any series after that) because leaders tend to set the basis for how everyone else within their community is going to act. Sure, there are always those people who will go against the grain, but in general, if people respect their leaders they're going to try to be more like them, and if they don't they're going to try to be less like them.
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