Is it lunchtime?

[Whizkid]

I was just wondering how much Trek has influenced us, determined us, and our imagination of the deep dark beyond.

I was watching Babylon 5. S4E18. "Intersections in Real Time." The way Sheridon is interrogated reminded me of Picard (TNG S6E10:Chain of Command): there are ... FOUR lights!

Two excellent episodes...at approximately the same time.

 

[1001001]

What does that have to do with “Lunchtime”?

 

[Whizkid]

What does that have to do with “Lunchtime”?

When John Sheridan is being interrogated, in Babylon 5, (mentioned the episode), the interrogator, around lunchtime, (they gave him neither food nor water for two days), casually asks him: is it lunchtime (while eating a ham and cheese sandwich)?

Picard's interrogation (in Chain of Command) felt similar to me.

Remember when he's offered food?

 

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[StarMan]

That sandwich scene always made my mouth water.

 

[fireproof78]

Correlation does not equal causation.

Depriving someone of food and water to torture them existed long before either of these shows or their creators were thought of.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm typing this post as of 11:02 AM EDT. So, where I am, it is indeed Lunch Time.

Early lunch, but still.

 

[Whizkid]

Correlation does not equal causation.

Depriving someone of food and water to torture them existed long before either of these shows or their creators were thought of.

Of COURSE it doesn't! Any high school child reading statistics can say that. What's your point?

 

[Whizkid]

I mean, all I said was, this Babylon 5 scene reminded me of one of the best scenes in TNG. By Sir Patrick Stewart.

Yet, you just had to say something meaningless. In the country we come from, for people like you, we often say:

"Snakes don't know how to swim in deep waters."

 

[Oddish]

Pop culture has been around for millenia, and has been influencing people all that time. The Roman Empire was known for having similar fads and celebrities that we have today... but other empires probably had their own version of it.

 

[Whizkid]

Pop culture has been around for millenia, and has been influencing people all that time. The Roman Empire was known for having similar fads and celebrities that we have today... but other empires probably had their own version of it.

Oddish, as much I have always loved your posts, (and I have), let me tell you this: I do NOT support you declaring this "pop culture." This is the very basic definition of hoomans (as Quark might have said.)

There is a basic difference between the Roman Empire (as we know it) and Star Trek:

Trek is the future. No poverty, no reason to fight. That was EWS's insight.

We're still stuck in the past.

 

[Whizkid]

EWR. Sorry.

 

[fireproof78]

Of COURSE it doesn't! Any high school child reading statistics can say that. What's your point?

Well...I am trying to find your point.

I was just wondering how much Trek has influenced us, determined us, and our imagination of the deep dark beyond.

You asked about influences. I do not see the influence. I see similarity, hence my comment of correlation =\= causation.

We're still stuck in the past.

Hardly. We are growing, fighting, clawing and discovering. We are perhaps not meant for paradise, but that doesn't mean we are stuck in the past either.

With all due respect to James Kirk.

 

[Whizkid]

The thing I was most impressed by was G'Kars evolution. He goes from being a nasty, mean, corrupt bastard to an absolute saint. Nobody in science fiction achieves that.

(Superman is always Superman. Even when he is isn't. And the recent fascination with Ironman.)

I salute the writer of this story. And I insist, B5 equals Trek.

Since the writers are more or less the same.

:0

 

[fireproof78]

And I insist, B5 equals Trek.

Better than in some places.

 

[1001001]

I mean, all I said was, this Babylon 5 scene reminded me of one of the best scenes in TNG. By Sir Patrick Stewart.

Yet, you just had to say something meaningless. In the country we come from, for people like you, we often say:

"Snakes don't know how to swim in deep waters."

That’s quite enough of that.

Speaking of “meaningless” this thread is the poster child for the term.