One last Masefield note

One last Masefield note

In case any of you were wondering what my weird fascination with this Masefield character is, I can tell you: it’s Star Trek!

Masefield is one of the only poets mentioned by name in the Star Trek universe, specifically in the much-maligned Star Trek V when Kirk quotes from a line of the poem herein posted. Kirk quotes the line, McCoy misidentifies it as Melville, and Spock corrects him with Masefield.

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SFF: Star Trek - Crucible: McCoy! Hunters of Dune!

SFF: Star Trek - Crucible: McCoy! Hunters of Dune!

You know, the main enemies of science fiction aren’t the genre-snobs who think it starts and stops with Philip K. Dick (or that Margaret Atwood has ever written a word of it).

The real enemies of science fiction are the writers of it who’ve bought into the mainstream idea that genre readers are a little dim.

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