В 12-й серии второго сезона сериала «Вавилон 5» есть одна примечательная сюжетная линия.
https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Acts_of_Sacrifice
2.12 Acts of Sacrifice
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Mario DiLeo
Original air date February 22, 1995
Коммандеру Ивановой поручили провести первый контакт с представителями инопланетной «высокоразвитой / advanced» цивилизации Лумати и заключить с ними договор о сотрудничестве. (...вышла забавная аллегория с Advanced цивилизацией от Грэма Хэнкока)
Andy Lane - "The Babylon File.The Definitive Unauthorised Guide to J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5" (1997)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237555.The_Babylon_File
https://archive.org/details/babylonfiledefin0000lane
(216 стр.) The ‘B’ Plot: Representatives of a newly contacted alien race — the Lumati — arrive on the station, and Ivanova is detailed to show them around. Earth wants to negotiate an alliance with the Lumati, but the Lumati believe most other races to be their inferiors. Ivanova accidentally manages to persuade them that humanity is as ‘superior’ as they are.
00:03:35 The Lumati look like an advanced civilization. That's why they want this to go smoothly. With the war heating up, we need to get more races onboard... either as allies or in the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
Но в процессе осмотра станции в медицинском отделении главный инопланетянин подивился, как же это получается, что оказывают помощь всем больным, даже безнадежным, такое напрасное растрачивание ресурсов!?
Ведь логично же концентрироваться исключительно на здоровых и просто позволить Эволюции идти своим собственным курсом! А если вдруг генетически-слабые, поддерживаемые с вашей помощью начнут увеличиваться в количестве и превзойдут генетически-сильных?
00:14:45
— Did you say this facility was for the treatment of species other than your own?
— Yes, yes, yes. That's correct.
— I do not understand. Why go through all of this to save the lives of potentially inferior species? Evolution is driven by blood. The weak die and the strong survive. By preserving the sick and wounded of other races, you pollute the genetic pool. It does not serve evolution.
— Well, my job isn't serving evolution. It's serving humanity, even when the patient isn't human.
— What happens when the inferior, saved from the process of natural selection...begin to outnumber the superior?
— think we should all be moving on by now.
— I don't believe that any form of sentient life is inferior to any other.
— Yes, we often hear that argument from inferior species and their sympathizers. — Just one second. If you saw a child from one of these "inferior" species bleeding to death... and all you had to do was move a finger to save its life, you wouldn't do it?
— We would neither help nor harm them. It's not our place to interfere. The way for one race to help another is to allow evolution to run its course. It's for their own good. Well, thank you for the stimulating conversation, doctor. You have some strange notions, but I'm sure they will pass with time.
Но затем, когда инопланетным гостям устроили экскурсию на нижний уровень, где пиз*ец, бедность, голод и разбой - они оказались в полном восторге! По их мнению, они поняли игру, которую ведет человечество, посредством незаметного изолирования слабых, создавая им условия лишь для минимального выживания и поддержания жизни «на волоске». Вот это да!!! Такой цинизм человеческой расы! Как же мы сами не додумались, надо будет внедрить у нас подобное! Мы готовы сотрудничать!!!
00:26:16
— You said these are your own species, yes?
— We call them Lurkers. And yes, humans mostly. They come here in search of new lives, new opportunities. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, often they don't have enough money for a return ticket. So they end up getting small jobs here and there. When those go dry... they move into the undeveloped parts of the station, Downbelow. You shouldn't be seeing this.
— Most impressive.
— Excuse me?
— We have isolated ourselves from inferior species, but you... You have shown the will to isolate... the genetically inferior parts of your own species... ...as an evolutionary protection.
— You don't understand. This wasn't intentional.
— It's a brilliant move, commander. You see, you isolate the genetic pool. You limit their chances for procreation. You create a work force without a power base to challenge you. We haven't thought of this... but it's something we will institute in our world at the first opportunity.
- But...
- You see, alliances... Alliances are built upon more than tactical advantages. They are built upon similarities of culture. And it would appear that we are more similar than I had first suspected. Congratulations, commander. This, more than anything else, has convinced me that you are worthy of an alliance. We will go now and discuss the terms of our alliance.
— Thank you, but this is not...
Из книги-гида по «Вавилону 5»:
Авторы отмечают, как сценарист фильма Дж. Майкл Стражински в этом сюжете провел аллегорию с реальностью современного общества, в которой при любом развитии событий в проигрыше всегда остаются лишь страдающие в жизненных неудачах... Что же хуже — специально создавать условия для разделения или пользоваться людьми, попавшими в подобные обстоятельства?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34014617-a-dream-given-form
While Ivanova’s negotiations with Ambassador Correlilmurzon (Ian Abercrombie) and his symbiotic translator Taq (Paul Williams) are well played for laughs, there is a real edge to the Lumati’s bigoted racial ideology. In message-board posts, Straczynski drew parallels between the Lumati’s social Darwinism run wild and contemporary right-wing American politics. Correlilmurzon’s delight at the socioeconomic inequality revealed by the existence of Downbelow is one of the show’s most scathing indictments of both inequality in the United States and the mindset that equates poverty with failure and inferiority: “You see, you isolate the genetic pool, you limit their chances for procreation, you create a workforce without a power base to challenge you.” Ivanova is shocked, particularly as she is well aware that the de facto segregation of places like Downbelow is not planned. Yet the Lumati perspective is uncomfortably accurate in terms of practical effects. Which is worse: deliberately creating the conditions of Downbelow, or ruthlessly taking advantage of the conditions that one finds there? Either way, the most vulnerable are the ones who suffer.
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Доп. см. книги Дж. Майкла Стражински / J. Michael Straczynski — сценарно-автобиографическая книга и сборник сценариев:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Стражински,_Джозеф_Майкл
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski
https://archive.org/search?query=J.+Michael+Straczynski++The+Complete+Book+of+Scriptwriting