Ludd Was Right: Difference between revisions

** Really, the computer pretty much just made [[The Captain]] obsolete. It was made clear that crews would still be necessary for the purposes of landing parties. Also, no mention was ever made of Star Fleet's diplomatic functions at all.

* There were other encounters with Luddites on ''[[Star Trek]]'':

** The farmer/researchers in "This Side of Paradise" -- although their contentment with being isolated and living with minimal technology seems to stem as much from the spores as from anything else.

* Parodied in an episode of [[Kids in The Hall]], in which a group of laborers who work all day at holding their arms in a sink full of fish guts are replaced by a machine full of mannequin hands which can do the same job. When the manager insists this is the way of technology, the laborers point out that the manager can be replaced by a machine too. {{spoiler|Then he starts stuttering and falling apart [[Tomato Surprise|because he's a robot.]]}}

 

=== [[Literature]] ===

** Since the robots are [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|sentient]], it's more like slavery-is-bad than just technology-is-bad.

*** Although Spacer society, when taken to its logical extreme on the planet Solaria, seems to represent a weird kind of [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|"Freedom is bad"]] Aesop.