Relatively little television science fiction has dealt with the position of academics in the future. The one exception to this (here's a big surprise) is Babylon 5, which quite humorously took academic pretensions apart in its Season 4, when the academy was used to try to gain legitimacy for President Clark's fascistic regime. Later on, the series shows future academics, 100 years after Sherdian's death, tearing his reputation apart through historical analysis. I have mixed feelings about the latter event. JMS seems to believe in a vague class of people called "heroes" that are above the judgment of mere mortals. I, for one, would welcome such a historical deconstruction, as long as it doesn't lead to another future history (also shown by JMS), in which holograms were used to re-enact history, to the detriment of "fact"! Scary stuff, but since we don't have holodecks right now, not particularly convincing.
I would like to see something like "College 2101" or a show to that effect, but I don't think there'd be a huge audience for it. What do you think?
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