I miss having a Star Trek role model!

[T'Cal]

With all of the Trek series done for a few years now and the movie almost a year away, I miss having strong, ethical Star Trek characters to emulate. Who knows if we'll ever see any of the established leaders again. While I hope that the next movie is great, it's still only going to be a two-hour movie. I need to see regularly and frequently more characters such as Picard, Riker, Worf, Sisko, Bashir, O'Brien, Janeway, Paris, Tucker, and Reed.

The only tv show I go out of my way for lately is Dexter, and he's not one worth taking on as a role model...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

What? Dexter's a great role model.

 

[jbake]

Interesting you should this post. I was reading yesterday an interview with Natascha Kampusch. The Austrian Woman who was imprisoned for 8yrs in a cellar.

Her manner of speaking in this and other interviews ive read, had a familiar ring to it. Sounded formally noble, incisively and crisply precise.

Kampusch neither smokes nor drinks, she is of above-average intelligence and is thoughtful and articulate. But the way she describes him, it's doubtful that she imported many of his ideas: “I am really someone who sees things from a philosophical point of view and who looks at everything from an intellectual perspective, and he was somebody who was driven more by his emotions and his feelings, which manifested itself in a love of order and a pedantry.”
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...the nuclear bunker under his house in which he forced her to live was already decked out by the time he kidnapped her. “Most of all he wanted someone who wouldn't run away. So, a child because it can't defend itself, which he locked up so it couldn't run away. He wanted someone who engaged only with him, who was guaranteed never to betray or harm him. He just didn't want to leave the womb or be a grown-up, that's the feeling I have. He had this fantasy that if you force this feeling of security, you can just create love or affection, that it just materialises somehow - like some people believe that real love can bloom from an arranged marriage. It could happen but it also might not.”

So when she said,

We move on to other subjects, her favourite being TV. Kampusch says that she found her moral bearings by watching Star Trek. “I watched a lot of Star Trek and you have a complete philosophy of life in there, even if it's a bit idiotic and very much of its time. It had this kind of ethical and moral dimension, which I learnt from.

It had this kind of ethical and moral dimension, which I learnt from. For example, when you visit another planet you don't question the practices of other civilisations and you don't interfere - you shouldn't get involved.

“I mean, the first episodes with Captain Kirk were somehow quite misogynistic but quite hedonistic, too. Lieutenant Uhura sat there in her miniskirt and other female crew were portrayed as secretaries. It really was a reflection of how things were at the time. And then in the Eighties with The Next Generation, the overall Star Trek, you see this conflict between the Russians and the Americans. These Romulans and the Cold War. It's amazing, isn't it, that you can read something political into such banal light entertainment?”

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4044283.ece


It all became clear to me. I like did as a child, Natascha Kampusch and modeled her behaviour and speech patterns on TNG. Being an INTP/J, Data and Picard were my rolemodels... admittedly now when rewatching TNG, sometimes Data or Picard make me laugh when they make a speech that is just stuffy highminded conceit

eg. TNG Generations - Picard's speech at the end of the movie. On the passage of time being a friend, a companion, and not a predator as Dr Soran(sp) said. No dude, Dr Soran was right

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So you and Natascha, a make decent point that Star Trek characters were/are role models for people

 

[A beaker full of death]

"Yoda's philosophy, of course, is quite simplistic...He has basic philosophy which is really charming. Not very profound although young people consider it profound. I wish they would read more."

Irvin Kershner, Director, Empire Strikes Back

 

[Wonderlust King]

What? Dexter's a great role model.

Yeah he kills societies undesirables. Thats something to look up to!

 

[Kira Nerys]

It would good to have a role model .I have yet to found one in the real world.