Posted on 02/24/2015 9:34:40 PM PST by Citizen Zed
You bring up a point there...
Today we have men who would drug a women to rape her.
They never brought up that possibility with a phaser stun.
I guess they must have been able to create an environment in which everyone expressed their inherently good humanity and never do anything “unethical”. This is what liberals believe will happen, once they’re able to control the environment to that point.
I would set it to vaporize.
And never forget this:
Kirk did “The Green Chick” ... I mean, yo... Instellar kink to the max ...
Who needs money!?! Kirk didn’t.... she turned that one for FREE, baby...
Listen...
That society was so perfect, they even tamed those evil Tea Party Klingons and Romulans, man...
You got that right
I’d set it to “Bake”... and make S’Mores... for the whole galaxy...
Picture that... how can there be interplanetary war and hatred when EVERYBODY has ALL the S’Mores they could ever possibly want???
Or maybe just give Green Chicks to everybody...
In the last movie, “Kirk” is double teamed by twin sisters with tails, meow.
I’d take both. ;D
Got a little tail, did he?
:^)
Star Trek is just another utopia dream that ignores the fact that nothing man needs just grows on trees.
B5 is very, very good, but it takes some, ah, “determination” to get in to it, as the series is really one big (and fairly coherent) 5 year long story. The 1st couple times I saw it, I had no idea what the overall plot was, and was left wondering what the heck I was watching.
However, then I saw a couple episodes that stood alone fairly well, and that hooked me. To understand the whole story one needs to watch the 1st season, which is the hardest to “assimilate”, 1st. But, to get hooked, I’d watch these episodes from Season 2:
All Alone In the Night
And Now For a Word
Confessions and Lamentations
(Wonderful spirituality and willingness to sacrifice by the character “Delenn” reveals itself late in this episode, pretty much striking awe into her former enemy, Capt. Sheridan.)
A word of caution: While there are occasional space battles, that’s not what B5 is really about. B5 goes much deeper, and therefor requires much of its viewer. But, give it a good chance, and it will be well worth the effort.
G’Kar’s speech on freedom, after the defeat of his people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmuHNDcXLQ
When you get to Season 3, the Episode “Severed Dreams” has “everything” (including a major battle). But the “build-up” is what helps make it special.
Yes, it’s interesting that B5 came mostly from the mind of Joe Straczynski, who’s atheist, or at least agnostic, but both good and bad sides of religion are portrayed pretty well and fairly in B5. There is certainly no lack of positive spirituality from characters like G’Kar and Delenn, who are portrayed as quite strong believers of their religions (tho’ it takes G’Kar a while, and great pain, to get there.)
On the other hand, the Drazi are comical (for the most part) and the Markabs’ are decent enough beings whose beliefs doom them...
It is also notable for the positive portrayal of several Catholic priests, from the one who was a murderer and re-enacts the garden at gesetheme to meet the families of the ones he murdered to the head priest on Babylon 5 who gives us a glimpse of what happens to reprogrammed murderers.
Rarely do you see positive portrayals of priests in science fiction or modern television, MASH, the priest in the underground movement in the reincarnation of “V” and Babylon 5 being the exceptions.
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