bettinafairchild t1_j3xmm83 wrote on January 11, 2023 at 7:41 PM

By the way, a writer wrote "The Ones Who Walk Away from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" as a sort of sequel. You can look it up, it was in a recent issue of a popular SF magazine like Asimov's or something.

And there was an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this past year that features an Omelas-like situation.

turkeygiant t1_j41pmp5 wrote on January 12, 2023 at 3:57 PM

That was one of my favorite episodes in Strange New Worlds. I think it was maybe the one episode that was trying to stretch beyond the sort of usual Star Trek plots. As good as season 1 was I'm crossing my fingers that in season 2 they take a few more risks in the stories they tell and maybe end up with one or two new classic episodes.