Mark
Posted on 05/23/2017 9:10:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
ST:V had some really interesting ideas, but it was incompetently executed. I like it, too, in spite of itself.
Balance of Terror
>>Nah. “Inner Light” hit much harder.<<
Crap! You win! But it is close.
To live an ENTIRE life, be YOU and yet eventually just live that life. As always I go with the premise. Picard had children. As far as he is concerned, real ones. That he loved, reared and let go to the world. A wife, a community, stature and belonging.
The life that Picard, Captain of the Federation Fleets flagship would never ever known. I know the flute motif showed up again but I felt for him so much (despite my earlier post about him being a bit of a Nancy boy). The joy and later pain would have been unbearable.
Thanks for correcting me. I always like “Darmok” for the idea of conversing in concepts and not just structure. And Paul Winfield.
But “Inner Light” is in a league all its own.
Not necessarily. In the context of Greek "gods" (normally written with a small "g".) Kirk seems to be drawing a distinction between the Greek Pantheon and Monotheism as represented by Judaism and Christianity. (Although Christianity is a little more confusing on the point.)
Gene Rodenberry may have believed in secular humanism, but I think he was sufficiently aware of sentiments in the rest of the nation so as not to deliberately antagonize the dominant belief system. Had he left it at "We have no need for gods", people wouldn't hear the small "g" implying "Greek gods". They would assume he had deliberately insulted the vast bulk of his audience.
Rodenberry wasn't stupid enough to believe that wouldn't come back and bite him in the @$$. The only way to make this point without blowback was to add "We find the One quite sufficient", so that the people listening would understand that he was referring specifically to the pantheon of Greek "gods".
Even if Rodenberry was stupid enough to try that, I'm pretty sure everyone else on the set would have counseled him properly about what a mistake that would be.
And that does seem to be the direction that everything has been heading.
My black friends and black people of my acquaintance have never objected to being called "black." My Indian friends and acquaintances have never objected to being called "Indian." Most of the time, both groups use the respective terms in their own conversations. Seldom have I ever heard "African American" or "Native American".
They generally prefer to identify themselves as "Black", and "Indian."
I'm not going to keep up with the latest descriptive identification fads being churned out by the media people in New York and Los Angeles. These people only have power because we keep deferring to their stupid pronouncements.
I had not heard that. Interesting bit of trivia.
I just thought it was silly to insist on making the captain a woman. Especially a somewhat shrill one.
You realize I was making a joke, right?
Yes. I probably shouldn't have answered it seriously, but the modern tendency to use politically correct terms is something I find irritating.
I am sorry I responded that way. I should have kept it light.
Some years ago Christie’s had a huge auction of items, props, uniforms and such from all of the shows. The flute from the episode was expected to go for a few hundred bucks. It wasn’t even functional. it ended up going for $48K. That’s how much the episode moved the audience.
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/picards-ressikan-flute-4780101-details.aspx
Are you certain you're not thinking of "Lost in Space?"
Mark
I’ve also discovered that the liberal practice of attacking a speaker for something they never said is becoming quite common in conservative circles.
Case in point: I never said a single thing about any stories or the virgin birth being untrue. You jumped to that conclusion all on your own and then accused me of it.
I explained what I meant about metaphors and you purposefully ignored that part of what I said and instead twisted my words to make me look bad.
Just out of curiousity, do you sometimes work in the White House Press Briefing Room? You know the place where liberals play “GOTCHA!” games with President Trump and Sean Spicer?
wink wink, nudge nudge
at this point, what difference does it make?
Mark
There’s Spock, just as I said, swallowed by a carrot!
Any and every Voyager episode or any with Janeway in it
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