Is Star Trek really Star Trek?

[exodus]

Mysterion said:
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Okay, you've just got to stay indoors for awhile. Try some nice calming music on the CD player - Allman Brothers, perhaps - and maybe have a beer, then sleep it off. Things will be better for you tomorrow.

I think that's the problem, he's been inside to long. You're seeing signs of extended cabin fever.

 

[nerfherder]

M´Sharak said:

nerfherder said:
...one must reign in the black horse of desire...

Rein.

Horses have reins. They're attached to the bit and bridle.

Dude, we're talking philosophy, and you're concerned with spelling?

That would be like dismissing an entire science fiction series, including all its thoughtful and imaginative episodes and fascinating character development, just because it didn't fit within the "canon" prescribed by another series.

Oh wait, we do that; we're Trekkies.

Oh, and Balthier , buddy, I was just playin around with the ideas of St. Anselm (God as that which no greater can be perceived) and Plato (the forms [eidos] as described in the Phaedrus) and wrapping up my sophistry in a tidy Euclidan package (I say ... QED). It's just sophistry, nothing to be taken seriously. Argue against the logic all you want, though, I'm sure these dead white guys won't care.

Actually, using Eastern philosophy, it's even easier to argue that Star Trek is not Star Trek. For, according to the Madhyamika Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, nothing has "own-being" (svabhava). Hence, Star Trek is not "Star Trek" for no thing has own-being in definition against anything else.




honestly, why do I even bother reading the responses to my posts?

 

[M'Sharak]

nerfherder said:

M´Sharak said:

nerfherder said:
...one must reign in the black horse of desire...

Rein.

Horses have reins. They're attached to the bit and bridle.

Dude, we're talking philosophy, and you're concerned with spelling?

That would be like dismissing an entire science fiction series, including all its thoughtful and imaginative episodes and fascinating character development, just because it didn't fit within the "canon" prescribed by another series.

Oh wait, we do that; we're Trekkies.

Yeah.

Sorry, the "reign" instead of "rein" bit is something I've been seeing a lot for the last couple of years. Mostly, I just let it go, but I do have the occasional moment of weakness. The rest of what you wrote was just fine.

Besides, nitpicking is fun.