The children of Naltor (Dream Girl‘s home planet) cannot sleep. Brainiac 5 deduces that the Public Service, which all under-agers are plugged into, is being used by Naltor’s elders to keep them from sleeping. Naltorians can view further into the future while sleeping than they can while awake. The elders have seen visions of a war in the near future where many of their children will be killed on the front lines. The elders thought they were sparing the Naltorian youth from the grief of knowing their fate. What do the Legionnaires do?
They disconnect the kids from the public service. The threeboot Legionnaires stand up to their elders often, which I like. I found the ‘teenage revolution’ storyline a lot more interesting than the retroboot ‘racism against foreigners’ storyline. One of more interesting aspects of this storyline is the Orwellian lengths that the adults will go to to control the youth. The ‘Public Service technology’ is a perfect example of this. Listening in to their thoughts, manipulating how they think, keeping them mellow and tracking their location. Man, it just doesn’t get any creepier than that.
The Legionnaires having fun:
Threeboot Brainiac 5 is super-snarky:
Getting back at Brainiac 5:
On my Legion Jerk © scale this issue gets a:
