Gods And Hidden Powers

Dragoika says that the vaz-Terran dare too much and that the hidden powers will set free their anger at night. (Kursovikian religion is described as a paganism more inchoate than any on ancient Terra.) Flandry says that he often wonders whether this may be so but that mankind cannot turn back. Our equivalent of the hidden powers releasing their anger might be something like an ecological catastrophe although, in Flandry's time, mankind has transcended that particular danger by living on many planets.

Flandry himself thinks that Terran Admiralty Center on the Rockies looks like the Titans attacking Olympus and again thinks, metaphorically, that the gods might get irritated. This old language is still relevant and can be modernized. In a Star Trek film, it is not a god but a large spaceship that approaches Earth, trying to communicate with the now extinct whales...