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In Reply to: You're the one burning rubber to get away from your absurd assertions. posted by john dem on December 1, 2001 at 13:56:17:
Hi,
at the end of it, what remains is that you know painfully little about Star Trek; and even less of scifi. In most circles that is called ignorance. My favorite TNG episode puts Data on trial to determine if he is property of Star Fleet. I think it's Rodenberry's finest effort by far; and the moment of epiphany gives me chills every damn time. I have written here about that episode a number of times. It is what i call a meta-intersection; issues of law, morality, religion, and individuality come crashing together in a contest of conflicting priorities. The moment that goves me chills is when Guinan ( who is, after all black)says to the Captain there could be thousands, millions of Datas doing the work that was too dangerous or boring for humans. The Captain replies, 'Guinan, you're talking about slavery, that is what this is really all about, isn't it'. One subject that is a perennial, is how do you talk to an alien. There has even been a little scientific work done in this direction, but not much. While ST usually dodges the problem; one episode took the theme. That is my 2nd favorite episode, where 2 races, utterly alien, struggle to find a way to communicate. "Shaka, when the walls fell". Another TNG episode starts with an archelogical artifiact. It looks like the Russian toy that is a series of identical hollow dolls each smaller than the last, and each fits inside the larger. In the show, the artifact symbolises the idea that each person has several people, personalities perhaps, inside them. The show then goes on to cleverly illustrate the idea. There have been a few hundred Trek episodes, the really good ones can be counted without running out of fingers. But for me, getting there is half the fun. I enjoy seeing things come to pass; on the rare occasion they do. What you call cell phones, Star Trek called Communicators.
Another scifi perennial is tv on the wall; to tell the truth, I had thought I wouldn't see that one. Btw, my Mother was a Star Trek fan, held an engineering degree, was an avid amateur astronomer, was a school teacher of mathematics, a chess club coach, and a reader of Scientific American.
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Follow Ups
- the remains of the day - late 18:49:17 12/01/01 (8)
- Re: the remains of the day - Bruce from DC 06:40:19 12/03/01 (1)
- good post, minor quibble(s) - late 07:27:57 12/07/01 (0)
- Enter late, defender of the punyverse. - john dem 19:42:47 12/01/01 (5)
- intuitively obvious to the casual observer - late 21:51:33 12/01/01 (4)
- Yes, it is obvious. - john dem 23:09:50 12/01/01 (3)
- naught, plus naught, equals... - late 07:35:17 12/02/01 (2)
- Yawn...it must be late. - john dem 13:58:05 12/02/01 (1)
- Don't like losing, do you? --nt-- - late 16:16:35 12/02/01 (0)
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