{"id":322,"date":"2020-06-09T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2020-06-09T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:49:00","slug":"authors-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Author&#8217;s Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Guinan_and_Geordi-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Guinan_and_Geordi-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Guinan_and_Geordi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Guinan_and_Geordi-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Guinan_and_Geordi.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">I typically write these strips a few at a time, several weeks in advance (I&#8217;m currently up to episode 72.) I&#8217;ve spent the last 17 strips or so not-so-subtly mocking just how utterly reckless and irresponsible our current &#8220;Captain&#8221; and his cronies have been in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, but there&#8217;s usually 3-4 weeks between me reading about the latest bit of idiocy in the papers (then trying to find a suitable <em>TNG <\/em>episode to tie it into), and it showing up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Which is my way of saying that the events of the last two weeks have not gone unnoticed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">COVID-19 is a pretty horrible thing, and quite frankly, I&#8217;m amazed that I&#8217;ve even managed to make light of it at all, but this&#8230;. there is nothing even remotely funny about systemic racism, oppression, and violence, and it would be disrespectful for me to even try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Before the whole COVID thing, this webcomic was mainly about dissing on <em>Star Trek <\/em>for all the technobabble elements that are either scientifically impossible given our current understanding of physics, or at least wildly impractical and\/or dangerous. Some may call my outlook cynical, but if there&#8217;s one thing, <strong>one thing<\/strong>, that I hope<em> Star Trek<\/em> has got right&#8230; it&#8217;s that in future centuries, the utterly preposterous notion that the amount of melanin in your skin somehow dictates your worth as a human being will finally been relegated to the dung heap of history where it so rightly belongs, and we can finally grow the hell up as a species and begin &#8220;investing in ourselves.&#8221; And by ourselves, I mean <em>every last one of us<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I typically write these strips a few at a time, several weeks in advance (I&#8217;m currently up to episode 72.) 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