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[Jim looks somewhere between amused, bemused, and exhausted when the community interrupts his game of solitaire, playing with a real deck of cards on his desk. From the angle of the camera, of course, you can't tell he's winning, but he totally is.]
I guess the community thinks it's being neglected. Well, then, have a story: today we beamed down to talk to an M-class planet, very similar to Earth, but reminding me so much of United States history that I had a hard-time remembering we weren't in a poorly scripted movie. Early twentieth century metropolis, featuring the sort of gang-run organized crime that seemed most prevalent between the First and Second World Wars, during the time of prohibition. In fact, there is prohibition going on down there. Prohibition, suits, and machine guns.
Coppola and Scorsese probably couldn't've done better. What I'm curious about, though, is why an entire society's been functioning this way for, according to them, hundreds of years. [He trails off thoughtfully, looking at his cards again for a moment before remembering to look back to the recording device above his computer.] All right, to make this relevant, has anyone else ever visited or heard of a society stuck in what you would consider the past?
I guess the community thinks it's being neglected. Well, then, have a story: today we beamed down to talk to an M-class planet, very similar to Earth, but reminding me so much of United States history that I had a hard-time remembering we weren't in a poorly scripted movie. Early twentieth century metropolis, featuring the sort of gang-run organized crime that seemed most prevalent between the First and Second World Wars, during the time of prohibition. In fact, there is prohibition going on down there. Prohibition, suits, and machine guns.
Coppola and Scorsese probably couldn't've done better. What I'm curious about, though, is why an entire society's been functioning this way for, according to them, hundreds of years. [He trails off thoughtfully, looking at his cards again for a moment before remembering to look back to the recording device above his computer.] All right, to make this relevant, has anyone else ever visited or heard of a society stuck in what you would consider the past?