《Periodic Table Seaborgium 》作者： - Michael Swanwick【EPUB】

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Michael Swanwicks Periodic Table of Science Fiction 106 Sg Seaborgium263 The Sea Borg Prepare to be assimilated The biggest hit of the 2089 television season is absolutelyguaranteed to be Star Trek: The Sea Borg. A little background first. The Star Trek franchise began humbly enough with a televisionshow that ran for three seasons before being canceled. It went immediately into reruns whichthough accountants assure us that the show has yet to turn a profit continue to this very day.Indeed the shows popularity was so great that eventually the original cast members by then alittle long in the tooth were brought back to make Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It was asuccess and the sequels continued until the advancing age of its principals became an outrightembarrassment. Thus was born Star Trek: The Next Generation a new television series designedto be the breeding ground for another series of movies. While its characters grew and prosperedand got older other shows were spun off from the franchises hardy root stock: Star Trekeep Space Nine known affectionately to its fans as Star Trek: The Mall and Star Trek:Voyager known less affectionately as Star Trek: Lost in Space. A sort of prequel to theoriginal series Star Trek: Enterprise shortly ensued. Once begun there was no end to theproliferation of Star Treks. Because the shows were being commissioned by studio executives whowere not particularly receptive to innovation the new series were often based on sci