This is an excellent meditation by Charlie Stross on the failings of the language we use to depict #Space travel and settlement.
Worth the time of anyone writing in #SFF, even if you might wince at the comment about TNG!
(But we've all had our "throw-book-at-wall" moments with SF media, no?)
#WritersOfCoSo #WritingCommunity #StarTrek lovers beware
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/10/conceptual-models-of-space-col.html
This be good stuff.
I remember talking to my dad, about the "colony model" as we read SF in the 60's and 70's.
His take was that this has so many failure modes, that it's
success was highly in doubt.
My take is a pseudo religious model stemming from Buddhist practices. A sort of a repeat of how Buddhism came to spread across the world. Not in opposition to local ecology and culture. But in acceptance and re-definition of.