Subj : Re: Picard
To   : Benjamin Toussaint
From : Daniel
Date : Thu Sep 10 2020 07:02:00

-=> Benjamin Toussaint wrote to Daniel <=-


 > I never caught Enterprise. I tried a few episodes and I couldn't get into
 > it. But the ship did look like an Akira class which rates as among a
 > favorite type for me.

 > Plus, I didn't really like the cast.

 BT> I do not like prequels in general. The cast is something you need to
 BT> get used to, but still it was "more Star Trek-y" than anything else
 BT> that came after it.

Valid point.

 BT> The original ST does have a lot of political statements related to the
 BT> time it was made. But instead of criticism against political actors,
 BT> especially not specific ones, ST used to show a vision about better
 BT> alternatives and kept the science within the fiction as "possible as
 BT> possible".
 BT> This is probably the reason so many nerds and science people love it.

Quite true. In my view, those 'statements' regarding political events or
policies seemed to wax philosophical. They seemed to be intellectual exercise
or
thought experiment on moral implications.

Think of the episode 'Who's watching the Watchers' from Season 3 of TNG. It was
a brilliant exercise on the long term manipulation of an entire people when
they
mistake Picard for an ancient mythological god when the culture had long
discarded their myths.

Picard took a stand by stating that in doing so, he would be erasing their
achievement.

Quote: 'Millenia ago they abandoned their belief in the supernatural. Now you
are asking me to sabotage that achievement. To send them back into the dark
ages
of superstition and ignorance and fear? No.'

One of my favorite stands. But it discussed an important moral stand. In modern
day discussions, there are indigenous groups of human in various areas of the
world who are uncontacted. There is a push to contact them and civilize them,
while the local governments have banned such practices and allowing them to
live
in peace.

 BT> To me, dreaming about a better world and thinking how to achieve it has
 BT> always been a way better attitude than ranting about the existing one.

Totally.

 BT> Yes... we will likely have to accept, that "our" Star Trek might never
 BT> return again.

mhm :(

Daniel Traechin

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