Tag: star trek
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STAR TREK’S “BALANCE OF TERROR” – THE WEDDING THAT NEVER HAPPENS (+SOME PARALLELS TO PUTIN’S INVASION ON UKRAINE)
“Obedience. Duty. Death and more death. Soon even enough for the Praetor’s taste. Centurion, I find myself wishing for destruction before we can return.“ Romulan Commander in Balance of Terror Balance of Terror begins with an actual wedding on the Enterprise, conducted by Kirk, that gets interrupted by invasion. By the end of the episode…
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WAS IT REALLY ILLOGICAL THAT THE VULCANS JOINED THE TERRAN EMPIRE? (THE DARK SIDE OF LOGIC)
The horror of Mirror-universe Spock is that he is by far the least different from ‘regular’ Spock than all Mirror-universe crew counterparts. Logic is always operational inside a reference system which decides what is logical and what is not by determining consequences of actions. So, in a Nazi-like Terran Empire regime, it is logical to…
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IS THE CREW OF PROMETHEUS REALLY THAT STUPID? (PROMETHEUS (2012) AND ALIEN (1979))
A part of the crew act stupid because they have too much faith (mainly, doctors Holloway and Peter Weyland), while the other part because they have too little (they don’t think they will find anything on the planet, or at least not anything alive, and certainly not intelligent life). However, just as the original Alien…
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KIRK IS A SMALL-TOWN BOY (STAR TREK: COLONIZATION FOR THE SAKE OF DEPOPULATION AND ECOLOGY?)
This Side of Paradise – I’ll leave it at that. In this universe, planets are not equivalents of states but of small (American) towns. And it’s pretty awesome. One of the things that I love about Star Trek (at least TOS, TNG and DS9) the most is that in it the human race has solved…
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WHY DATA’S DAD IS ONE OF STAR TREK’S MOST MORALLY SOUND CHARACTERS AND IS PETER WEYLAND A DELIBERATE OPPOSITE? (STAR TREK, PROMETHEUS (2012), ALIEN: COVENANT (2017))
SOONG: Everybody dies, Data. Well, almost everybody.DATA: Do you believe that we are in some ways alike, sir?SOONG: Yes, in many ways, I’d like to believe.DATA: Then it is alright for you to die, because I will remain alive. TNG, Brothers DAVID: You will die, I will not.WEYLAND: Bring me this tea David.(beat)WEYLAND: Bring me…
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TNG’S “FAMILY” – IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (INVALIDATING FAMILY SYSTEM)
Thank you Robert, sorry, I meant Roberrrr. I forget sometimes I am supposed to be French. “There I was, after 10 years, well 12, to be precise… So, after 12 years of absence, and in spite of my fear, I was going to visit them. In life there are a number of motivations, that are…
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“INNER LIGHT”: THE COST OF NOT BECOMING A MULTIPLANETARY SPECIES (TNG)
“God help us! For how long is art,And how short our life!” Goethe, Faust The message of the flute is not only: “It was all real. You are still one of us. You are the last of us. You are us, resurrected.” It is also: “The art we did is real. It is the only…
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KIRK – THE ‘CAESAR’ OF THE STARS
To boldly go where no man has gone before. An explorer, but not a conqueror. Or how human society of Kirk’s time has successfully reintegrated extremely capable, bold, adventurous men by making them fit a subtype of the conqueror archetype. Throughout Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk gets compared to Julius Caesar – many times.…
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KHAN NOONIEN SINGH – CHIEFTAIN TOTALITARIAN LEADER (JUNGIAN TYPES)
“No, Stalin is just a brute—a shrewd peasant, an instinctive, powerful beast—no doubt in that way far the most powerful of all the dictators. He reminds one of a Siberian saber-toothed tiger with that powerful neck, those sweepingmustaches, and that smile like a cat which has been eating cream. I should imagine that Genghis Khan…
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THE HUMANS OF STAR TREK ARE ACTUALLY ALIENS – TOS’S RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR ‘EMOTIONAL PRESENT’
So, how different the humans of Star Trek are when compared to us? Vastly, but not only in the technological sense, in the emotional sense as well, or even more so. Two episodes of TOS come to mind as especially relevant in discussing this issue: Space Seed and Mirror, Mirror, with the one showcasing what…
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