[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >…Ja, that and they fixed the split infinitive by switching to “to go boldly” replacing “to boldly go” tossing us grammar nazis a bone.  But it also makes us realize that eliminating the split infinitive was not a real improvement.  Picard’s revised introduction still doesn’t eliminate the Columbus problem.  When I was first told Columbus discovered the Americas, I knew that was false: there were already people here, plenty of them.  Where Picard went had “ones” already there, the Vulcans, the beloved Feringi (I really relate to them for some odd reason) the Klingons and so forth.
>
> Better would have been “…to go boldly where no earth-evolved human has gone before…”

Quite often, they went where Earth-evolved humans had gone - and
frequently (though not always) knew it ahead of arrival.  They did
sometimes go where not even the Vulcans, Ferengi, or Klingons had gone
before, though not always boldly.