It refers to an ursula k leguin short story called the ones who leave omelas i think.
Omelas is a utopia but it relies on the fact that one child is chosen to be tied up and tortured in a basement in exchange for the utopia being able to exist. Some people are disgusted by this sacrifice and leave omelas. Something like that i think.
There’s a star trek strange new worlds episode with an omelas planet and their utopia uses a living child as a kind of battery to run and that’s how I imagine the omelas in the story now.
It refers to an ursula k leguin short story called the ones who leave omelas i think.
Omelas is a utopia but it relies on the fact that one child is chosen to be tied up and tortured in a basement in exchange for the utopia being able to exist. Some people are disgusted by this sacrifice and leave omelas. Something like that i think.
There’s a star trek strange new worlds episode with an omelas planet and their utopia uses a living child as a kind of battery to run and that’s how I imagine the omelas in the story now.
Must be based on the leguin story
100% I’m almost positive they specifically mentioned leguin as inspiration for the episode