According to his wife Majel, yes.
According to his wife Majel, yes.
Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.
They literally did, though? Europeans brought animals and plants over on their ships—the same ones they were coming over on. Kudzu is an extremely recent example, but invasive species date back to the literal first colonists. The two issues are inextricable.
And it’s not that the plants are fitter, it’s that they have no predators as a result of human activity.
I’m sorry, but I really think this is a “no investigation, no right to speak” scenario. It would take thirty minutes on Google to figure out why you’re wrong.
This is a super bad take. Most invasive species were brought over by Europeans, so yes, they did have an “immigration program”. The reason they’re outcompeting natives is not that they’re fitter, but that they have no place in the ecological systems here: nothing eats them so they have no checks on their spread.
Well hang on, let’s hear it out
no. i don’t play games for fetish purposes.
I admit I’m having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It’s supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it’s been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don’t know which one was the original.
I’ll keep trying to find it, though.