• Lath@kbin.social
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    9 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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      9 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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        9 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.