Theme
Fair Haven explores a common Star Trek (and science fiction) theme of what constitutes personhood. For example, Voyager explores this using the self-aware holographic program The Doctor; The Next Generation did so using the android Data, and the Trill symbionts, who also appear in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; The Original Series included an intelligent cloud-like life form in the episode "Metamorphosis." Specifically, Fair Haven addresses the ethics of how to treat artificially created programs which are nonetheless self-aware.
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Famous quotes containing the word theme:
“One theme links together these new proposals for family policy—the idea that the family is exceedingly durable. Changes in structure and function and individual roles are not to be confused with the collapse of the family. Families remain more important in the lives of children than other institutions. Family ties are stronger and more vital than many of us imagine in the perennial atmosphere of crisis surrounding the subject.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)
“The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)