Chapter 39 - What are the Adventures of Flotter? (Patreon)

Beyond being one of my favorite stories from when I was young and hopefully a huge and profitable hit for me in this time, I was really hoping to loosen the utter stranglehold that The Adventures of Flotter had on the young and impressionable minds of the Federation’s many children. Yes, Flotter and his motley crew of pals did a nice job representing and depicting the natural elements and/or the forces of natures, imparting sound, basic scientific principles to kids, but there was a decidedly moralistic tilt to many of its stories, a subtle indoctrination in Federation thinking and propaganda.

In my opinion, that of an outsider who had not grown up in this culture and who had watched the many series of Star Trek, the Federation’s youth needed a bit more wonder and whimsy injected into their young imaginations. It also wouldn’t hurt to have them encounter the darker side of life in the stories as they grew up. Hell, fighting against Voldemort and his forces during the second Blood War, dealing with issues of racism and bigotry, might be exactly what the Federation needed. Many would likely follow canon Harry’s path, barely fighting, unwilling to make the hard choices, but I bet you many might become competent fighters and tacticians as they fought their guerilla war in books 6 and 7 and my program would allow them to fight a truly bloody and realistic civil war if they wanted to. In some ways, maybe my Harry Potter series of holonovels could impart some valuable skills or ways of thinking that could lead many to better weathering the Dominion shit storm on the horizon.