I had this somewhat-elaborate joke regarding sci-fi and religion that I don't think I'll actually use in Starslip.
My brother and I watched a lot of Star Trek: TOS. That show, being a product of the 1960s, went out of its way to make the viewer feel comfortable with what's supposed to be the far future. Kirk and Bones crack wise to Mr. Spock, the girls wear miniskirts, etc. It's a very familiar and comfortable future -- but it's still the future, so surely there would be SOME differences we 20th Century guys would feel weird about.
So the joke was, after the episode has wound down and they're all musing on the bridge, the exchange goes like this:
Kirk. I guess you could say we taught them a little something about... being human. Spock. I fail to see the necessity of that lesson, Captain. Bones. Of course YOU would, you green-blooded Vulcan! Kirk. Mr. Spock, I suspect we'll make a human out of you yet!
(KIRK and BONES laugh)
Kirk. Now let us give thanks and offer praise to our god, Zanzo.
(Immediately discordant organ music starts playing, and the entire crew of the Enterprise starts making jarring robot-like gyrations and ululating.)
So Zanzo (Zanzism?) was going to be the Starslip-official religion of man in the future, but it seems too much like a comment on religion being dumb. If Vanderbeam practices something we'd never get to see it anyway.
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I had this somewhat-elaborate joke regarding sci-fi and religion that I don't think I'll actually use in Starslip.
My brother and I watched a lot of Star Trek: TOS. That show, being a product of the 1960s, went out of its way to make the viewer feel comfortable with what's supposed to be the far future. Kirk and Bones crack wise to Mr. Spock, the girls wear miniskirts, etc. It's a very familiar and comfortable future -- but it's still the future, so surely there would be SOME differences we 20th Century guys would feel weird about.
So the joke was, after the episode has wound down and they're all musing on the bridge, the exchange goes like this:
Kirk. I guess you could say we taught them a little something about... being human.
Spock. I fail to see the necessity of that lesson, Captain.
Bones. Of course YOU would, you green-blooded Vulcan!
Kirk. Mr. Spock, I suspect we'll make a human out of you yet!
(KIRK and BONES laugh)
Kirk. Now let us give thanks and offer praise to our god, Zanzo.
(Immediately discordant organ music starts playing, and the entire crew of the Enterprise starts making jarring robot-like gyrations and ululating.)
So Zanzo (Zanzism?) was going to be the Starslip-official religion of man in the future, but it seems too much like a comment on religion being dumb. If Vanderbeam practices something we'd never get to see it anyway.