Reminds me of that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode where this species put a child into this ancient machine that to keep their luxurious infrastructures running. Machine is so ancient they don’t know why it works or even how it works. They just know that they need to hook the a genius child into the machine to keep the machine running or a certain amount of time. They didn’t want to give up the luxuries or want to take the hassle of rebuilding after dismantling the old order(aka restart from scratch). Captain Pike was absolutely disgusted when he found the truth.
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Reminds me of that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode where this species put a child into this ancient machine that to keep their luxurious infrastructures running. Machine is so ancient they don’t know why it works or even how it works. They just know that they need to hook the a genius child into the machine to keep the machine running or a certain amount of time. They didn’t want to give up the luxuries or want to take the hassle of rebuilding after dismantling the old order(aka restart from scratch). Captain Pike was absolutely disgusted when he found the truth.