JackGreenEarth to [email protected]English • 11 months agoIf you had to live in a fictional magical world, but you wouldn't be magical, what world would you pick?message-square81fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down13
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to live in a fictional magical world, but you wouldn't be magical, what world would you pick?JackGreenEarth to [email protected]English • 11 months agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareLathlinkfedilink11•11 months agoBut there’s Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought… Pretty magical stuff there…
minus-squaregregorumlinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-211 months agoAny sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show.  The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. 
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoThe Q are pretty fucking magical, to be honest. DeLancie’s Q even suggests that all of their powers come from the mind, not from technology.
minus-squareDrusaslinkfedilink3•11 months agoWow, I had completely forgotten about the Wesley Traveler thing.
minus-squareJackGreenEarthOPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoYou may be more familiar with it than me.
minus-squareLathlinkfedilink3•11 months agoWell then, I’d say this is a good excuse to familiarize yourself with it and tell me for sure.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•11 months agoMy best judgment is that you should go and binge watch DS9 because that show is amazing.
But there’s Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought… Pretty magical stuff there…
Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. 
The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. 
The Q are pretty fucking magical, to be honest. DeLancie’s Q even suggests that all of their powers come from the mind, not from technology.
Wow, I had completely forgotten about the Wesley Traveler thing.
You may be more familiar with it than me.
Well then, I’d say this is a good excuse to familiarize yourself with it and tell me for sure.
I’ll leave it to your best judgement.
My best judgment is that you should go and binge watch DS9 because that show is amazing.