What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Then you have failed as a teacher.
If you're in charge of a classroom of kids and don't inculcate them with Trek propaganda what kind of fan can you even claim to BE?!?!
I would show "Enemy Within" and have em compare/contrast a kind/aggressive model of personhood to Freud's tripartite model.
I would sometimes show the T'Pol ENT ep where she toys with emotion and traveling Vulcan emotionalists.
I would have to do a preview/explain the latter part of the class session prior to watching "Enemy Within" so they'd know what's going on. Many students would say it was their first ever classic ep. Some had seen some TNG flipping through cable maybe. When SW ep vii came out, it was surprising so many had never seen a SW movie too.
(EDIT And I had an "Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Star Trek" poster in my room."
I would sometimes show the T'Pol ENT ep where she toys with emotion and traveling Vulcan emotionalists.
I would have to do a preview/explain the latter part of the class session prior to watching "Enemy Within" so they'd know what's going on. Many students would say it was their first ever classic ep. Some had seen some TNG flipping through cable maybe. When SW ep vii came out, it was surprising so many had never seen a SW movie too.
(EDIT And I had an "Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Star Trek" poster in my room."
Yep. You've been doing it right.
Young minds, fresh ideas. Be tolerant.
One of the best James T Kirk quotes.
Picturing Star Trekkers in a century arguing about it, saying 'that's not proper Star Trek'
Picturing Star Trekkers in a century arguing about it, saying 'that's not proper Star Trek'
Yeah can only imagine the arguments that will happen then
Nah, clueless people on minimum wage will still be showing clips of fan films thinking it's real Star Trek
Not sure I’m liking the hint of snobbery regarding minimum wage in that comment, hopefully I’ve misunderstood. There but for the grace of (whichever) God etc. Punch up not downNah, clueless people on minimum wage will still be showing clips of fan films thinking it's real Star Trek
A century from now, we'll probably see the beginnings of a codification of what Star Trek fans should believe, carefully worded in such a way that no-one understands exactly how it should work, but just being enough of an compromise of different views to fit everyone.
''Do you accept Starfleet as an organisation that is both entirely non-military and entirely military in equal measure, uniting and transcending both notions in its own nature?"
"I do"
"Do you believe in a Federation economy that is truly and fully non-monetary yet still uses a credits system and money in some instances?"
"I do"
"Do you believe the Prime Directive should be upheld at all costs, if need be at the cost of the lives of the entire crew, except when the Captain feels like violating it?
"I do"
""Then, by this, may it be known we pronounce thee a true Star Trek fan."
''Do you accept Starfleet as an organisation that is both entirely non-military and entirely military in equal measure, uniting and transcending both notions in its own nature?"
"I do"
"Do you believe in a Federation economy that is truly and fully non-monetary yet still uses a credits system and money in some instances?"
"I do"
"Do you believe the Prime Directive should be upheld at all costs, if need be at the cost of the lives of the entire crew, except when the Captain feels like violating it?
"I do"
""Then, by this, may it be known we pronounce thee a true Star Trek fan."
"This just in: Star Trek being investigated as a cult. "
The prime directive was a plot point invented for the TOS episode "The Omega Glory", before it there wasn't even a hint of it and as a matter of fact, it had been violated countless times and not violated because in truth it didn't exist yet. And in TOS, TAS, and the Kirk movies there was no other mention of the so-called prime directive, like Kirk's brother it had just disappeared into thin air... Until being unearthed much later in TNG.
Well, no, the Prime Directive was referred to in "A Piece of the Action" and "The Apple." Unless this is just an attempt at humor, in which case I guess that makes me Saavik.
Yeah, "A Piece of the Action" and "The Apple.", two great examples of the application of the prime directive... If there is something that they refrained from doing in either of these episodes, I don't know what it is.
Take the Organians for example. They were apparently at a pre-mechanical stage, yet that didn't stop Kirk et al. from beaming down in the middle of a crowd and then commenting on the lack of reaction of the people.
What did they learn?
Personally, I learned that when you get stabbed through the heart you can just laugh it off...
Very short answer: it’s better to incorporate your trauma than it is to deny or repress it.
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