"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" is latin for "In times of war the laws falls silent." in means that when there is a war the people in charge tend to forget that there are laws and do atrocious things.
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But "I, Mudd" is about robots, not Romans.
Which makes it a nod to Asimov, indeed.
I really doubt that. The phrase "in the pale moonlight" existed long before that movie.
This is a Shakespeare quote from Hamlet, referring to his plan to expose Claudius' murder of Hamlet's father: "The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
As they say on the AV Club, it can be both things.
But not the phrase "Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" which is a big part of what the DS9 title is referencing.
Plus, Ron Moore confirmed it back in the '90s.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" was probably taken from the main title narration, but the narration was probably inspired by a 1958 pamphlet called "Introduction to Outer Space"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Outer_Space
Changing no one to no man, and tucking in the adverb boldly to form a split infinitive, sounds like Roddenberry to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Outer_Space
Changing no one to no man, and tucking in the adverb boldly to form a split infinitive, sounds like Roddenberry to me.
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But "I, Mudd" is about robots, not Romans.
When you consider that Asimov wrote Foundation after reading Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, then I, Robot makes sense as an homage to I, Claudius.
Of course it does, however "I, Mudd" is clearly a reference to Asimov. (It's filled with robots for pete's sake!)
And then, of course, I, Borg flows from that.
Very likely.
And there it is.
Naturally! Although not necessarily an homage to I, Mudd, but an independent homage to Asimov's novel. But who knows?
Plus TNG had already acknowledged Asimov with the positronic robot (which is an asimovian invention) so this was only logical.
It's the other way around. Shatner's opening "Space, the final frontier" voice-over wasn't heard until the series went into production.
"In The Pale Moonlight" had a story by Peter Allan Fields and a teleplay by Michael Taylor, so it's unlikely that Ron Moore came up with the title. Hence him asking "if they took it from somewhere else."
"I don't know" is not a confirmation. And how can it be referencing that phrase when it's never used in the episode?
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I don't know if Taylor or Fields came up with the title or not. But everything I see online is in pretty good agreement that Moore had more to do with the final version of "In the Pale Moonlight" than either Fields or Taylor. And Moore seems to think that it's a Batman reference.
The original title was "Patriot" before being changed to "In the Pale Moonlight" in the final draft (written by Ron Moore) or perhaps one of the earlier drafts, written by Taylor or Moore.
The Magnificent Ferengi is of course a play on The Magnificent Seven, a famous Western just recently remade.
^ Which itself was a westernized version of Kurosawa's 七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai, or Seven Samurai.
Good call!
My feeling is that you know I didn't mean that the phrase was said in the episode. Anyway, I'm not that worried about arguing it. I believe it is likely, you disagree. No biggie.
Yes, westernized, not bastardized...
Some people feel that the Magnificent Seven is only a poor adaptation of Kurosawa's masterpiece.
I count myself among those who think that they may have a point.
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