![]() ![]() ![]() Psychohistory isīased upon mass action, and it can only predict the future whenĭealing with large groups, predicting trends in large masses of Individual could render his predictions invalid. Years, but his plan fails to foresee that the actions of a single Seldon, terrified at this prospect, takesĪction to attempt to minimize the oncoming "dark ages" to only 1,000 Galactic civilization is doomed to fall, leading to 30,000 years ofĭarkness and barbarism. Mathematics known as psychohistory which he uses to calculate that Involves a scientist (Hari Seldon) who develops a branch of Of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the basic plot ![]() The story line was based on Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation Trilogy.Īsimov based his work on issues raised in Edward Gibbon's The History Quote from the Deep Space Nine Companion, as reported by Memory Alpha (bold text by me): In the episode, a group of genetically augmented persons is so intellectually advanced that is able to predict and calculate the outcome of the Dominion War. There is an episode from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, named Statistical Probabilities (Season 6, Episode 9) that is inspired by the concept of psychohistory. (This is not really a movie and it is not explicitly referencing the Foundation series from Asimov, but it is directly inspired from it and heavily borrows its key concepts, so it could be something of interest) ![]()
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