On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:55:26 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> the stories in general aren't about the technology.
> 
> *Usually* not. Occasionally they are. Of course, McCoy's distaste for
> the transporter is all about the technology. :-)

Well, even in the technologically-driven stories, there always seemed to 
be a slant towards the ethics/morals of the technology.  That's something 
that McCoy's distaste of the transporters was always about - he thought 
it was just wrong to take people apart at that level and put them back 
together somewhere else.

And of course IRL that point of McCoy's has spawned (and been included 
in) discussions of modern technological advancement, such as with regards 
to cloning and (for some) embryonic stem cell research.

Jim

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