~ ， ~o~ ~e ~u~g ~at whsn lha ~e ~o~ss. we<br > he~ ~hat ~ n~d to {ace o~ d~gons， d~o~et o~ ~s，<br > hrislopher Columbus Francisco Pizarro. Ferdina<br > C the unknown， pitted their puny ~sources against the<br > Magellan These intrepid souls all ventured form i~<br > ments， and explored strange new worlds Sounds like a typi<br > mission aboard the Sin[ship Enterprise， doesn t it?<br > Except that whenever the~ heroes landed in a new place， Ih<br > had little patience for the bothersome naliv~ who got in their<br > way Cranky from their long iour neys， eager to start plundering，<br > they enslaved the local residents~r a~ihilated them<br > How diffe[ent the planet would be today if the South Pacific<br > had b~n visited not by James Cook but by James Kirk， if the<br > cast of Florida had b~n discovered not by Ponce de Ledn but<br > by Jeaa-Luc Picard， or iI Western Europe and Britain had b~a<br > visited not by Julius Caesar but by Kathryn Janeway!<br >