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The implacable orphan crushing machine
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Wasn't there a Star Trek episode about this?
We're the bad planet that the Federation has an existential crisis over helping.
Strange New Worlds s1e6 "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach." Heavily adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
i read Catwings when I was a kid and cried at the ending
...and learned decades later she write science fiction. who is this woman.
She's one of the treasures of English literature.
Her children's books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.
..she invented the "ansible", a communication tech achieving faster than light travel, which would later be used by Orson Scott Card and other science fiction authors, mumbles away with book
I think it would be faster to list the episodes that weren't about this