: why would a spacefaring civilization like the Pfhor bother to use slaves?
: why not? I mean, science fiction is full of examples like that. They may have
: technology, but that doesn't mean they're devoid of evil. In Star Trek
: TNG, the federation wanted to treat Data as a mere machine and study him
: (it?) to make more, so Picard had to help prove he was alive. And remember
: the meaning of the word 'robot': 1920s: from Czech, from robota ‘forced
: labor’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's
: Universal Robots’ (1920).
: Sci-fi is a projection of us, humans, as we are, but in the future, with
: technology.(that's just my very simply explained opinion)