Orson Card: Thank God Star Trek is Dead

Heresy! Blasphemy!! Insightful!!! Uh, I mean, uh... Orson Scott Card has dared to suggest the unspeakable - that maybe it is time for Star Trek to die. I don't agree - I think Enterprise had a lot of life left in it - but then I have always been one for lost causes.

Here's what I think: Most people weren't reading all that brilliant science fiction. Most people weren't reading at all. So when they saw "Star Trek," primitive as it was, it was their first glimpse of science fiction. It was grade school for those who had let the whole science fiction revolution pass them by...Now we finally have first-rate science fiction film and television that are every bit as good as anything going on in print.

Oh, and as my friends already know, I bristled at the mention of "Being John Malkovich" as "a great sci fi movie." It is a horrible movie and perhaps the most morally reprehensible film of our time. If you don't know why, you haven't really thought about it enough.