"to boldly go"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Jan 30 20:54:19 UTC 2008


At 1/30/2008 11:22 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 9:00 AM -0500 1/30/08, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 1/29/2008 11:01 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>or of
>>>accepting a mission to boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before...
>>
>>
>>Isn't the newer, PC motto not "human" but "where no-one has gone before"?
>Maybe so, but I'd think with a loss of accuracy, ...

Gee (and in response to the many other messages in this chain), I
didn't mean to start a post-modern philosophical discussion, just to
point out Patrick Stewart's formulation in "The Next Generation"!

Joel

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