The debut episode of Strange New Worlds includes a wonderful Jamesian speech from Captain Pike, to the warring parties of an alien planet the federation has contaminated with a glimpse of warp technology they weren't ready for.
“I choose to believe that your destinies are still your own. Maybe that’s why I’m here: to remind you of the power of possibility...right up until the very end life is to be worn gloriously. Because, ‘til the last moment, the future’s what we make it. So, go to war with each other. Or, join our federation of planets and reach for the stars. The choice is yours.”
That's Jamesian, on my reading, because it echoes WJ's forward-looking, risk-taking, ready-for-anything attitude of openness to possibility, of refusal to be locked into a deficient actuality. "No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance."
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