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That came out after the BSG reboot
What came out after the BSG reboot? I've known there was at least some influence from mormon culture since the 80s when the original had several references, the biggest being, IIRC, Athena and Apollo's wedding where they used the Mormon words (for time and all eternity) vs the more common (until death do us part).
I'm surprised at how jarring the math and background on page 2 feels. It really feels reflective of a different era, coming from a modern perspective Id never dare include something like that, with a big "scary looking formula" that needed explanation text, in the first half dozen pages. I wouldn't trust the reader to care enough to keep reading one word past the formula if I didn't already have them reasonably inves…
Not only that, they wrote part of this math into a monologue for Dr. McCoy, where McCoy was advising Kirk. In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk. From the episode Balance of Terror: https://youtu.be/2237…
> And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us.
It doesn't follow.
The bigger the universe, the more it contains exact duplicates of you. If the universe is literally infinite, it is obvious there exists an infinite number of you. We can see only a limited slice of it, but it's not a proof there are no duplicates of you in that slice.