Talk:Devil's Due (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

This episode illustrates Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."[2]
This is somewhat true from the perspective of the natives. Although they understand what advanced technology is and they never mistake the Enterprise or what its crew can bring about for magic, they somehow do appear to accept similar phenomena as truly magical when performed by Ardra (who is must be said really knows how to sell it). Picard of course immediately sees the bag of tricks for what it is, and as equivalent to what his tech can readily reproduce. Still, if you are entirely comfortable with Starfleet personnel materialising in your room, would you be that impressed by Ardra? 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:4D54:20CC:FEF8:36EF (talk) 20:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)