• Lath@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      But there’s Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought… Pretty magical stuff there…

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        10 months ago

        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. 

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          10 months ago

          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.

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          Any universe. I recall reading a fun fantasy book that played with this idea under the premise of a guy who discovered he was in a simulation and hacked admin access, decided to go back into Arthurian medieval times to be a wizard with his new tech powers, and ended up there with a number of other sysadmins who had the same idea.

          It wasn’t the best written book, but the concept was definitely novel.