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It Is WE Who Are Your Villains!
> I especially enjoyed the way _Star_Trek_ folded
> up the thinly veiled cold war analogy of the
> Klingons and the Romulans, which had served its
> writers so well even into the 1980's. They gave
> us a "frightening" new enemy in the Borg, a
> cheap mirror of our fears that our own technology
> is slowly dehumanizing us.
maybe i should invent me a better set of bad guys here for my stories. who do we have so far?
- Bythians: cheap copy of Giger's 'Alien' and Niven&Pournelle's Warrior Moties
- Metamorphs: you just can't trust them art fags.
- Maracites: well, you know what Michael Farahbakhshian used to say about goths.
- Parkry: aww, but they're only *little*!
- Moridani: ever wonder WHY they were the victims of genocide?
- Humans: nah. too stupid.
- Fexel: 'Woof woof, bow wow, woof woof'. i don't think so.
- Narish: there aren't enough of them left.
- Other: click here and i will make up some new ones, featuring:
[ ] an insatiable drive for power
[ ] an urge to procreate with every living thing in the galaxy
[ ] supply-side economics
[ ] mail spammers
[ ] a deeply ingrained imperative to unmake everything
[ ] big black spacecraft that hover menacingly overhead
nikolai
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disturbingly self-referential
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