List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched

[Push The Button]

TNG: Time’s Arrow (parts 1 and 2), streamed on Netflix.

 

[Damian]

"Is There In Truth No Beauty"

One of my favorites of the 3rd season.

 

[BlueStuff]

TNG - When the Bough Breaks

 

[Admiral2]

"Inter Arma, Enim Silent Leges," DS9

 

[Nyotarules]

TNG Best of both worlds 1 and 2 - Second episode, good writing, characterisasion and acting
TNG Brothers - How on earth Data kept his commission after this is ridiculous, if he was human and did this he would be locked up. Also Starfleet parents go on sabbatical and leave their two under age boys on the ship, a few weeks after the Borg invasion and this is normal?

 

[Reanok]

ds9 The Magnificent Ferengi

 

[Push The Button]

"Is There In Truth No Beauty"

One of my favorites of the 3rd season.

This episode could have been remade for TNG, the story would have fit right in.

 

[The Old Mixer]

TNG Brothers - How on earth Data kept his commission after this is ridiculous, if he was human and did this he would be locked up.

He was under the influence of Dr. Soong's signal. Hardly the first time a Starfleet officer had been under outside control. Must have been Tuesday.

 

[Push The Button]

TNG: Disaster, streamed on Netflix.

Not sure why the turbolift car would fall “down” the shaft after the emergency brakes failed.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

The Mark of Gideon (TOS Blu-ray)

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

The Loss (TNG Blu-ray)

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

Is There in Truth No Beauty? (TOS Blu-ray). I have never understood how a box of flashing lights could be considered ugly enough to cause insanity.

 

[Discofan]

The Wire - DS9

 

[Discofan]

Is There in Truth No Beauty? (TOS Blu-ray). I have never understood how a box of flashing lights could be considered ugly enough to cause insanity.

Well, if blinking lights can cause epilepsy sometimes, maybe specific patterns can as well drive you crazy. Forceful (or even torturous) interrogations include a bright light shined in one's face. It has at the very least an intimidating effect.

 

[MAGolding]

Is There in Truth No Beauty? (TOS Blu-ray). I have never understood how a box of flashing lights could be considered ugly enough to cause insanity.

Well, if blinking lights can cause epilepsy sometimes, maybe specific patterns can as well drive you crazy. Forceful (or even torturous) interrogations include a bright light shined in one's face. It has at the very least an intimidating effect.

It is specifically said that Medusans drive humans who see them insane because of how ugly they are:

Captain's log, stardate 5630.7. We have been assigned to convey the Medusans' ambassador to the Federation back to their home planet. While the thoughts of the Medusans are the most sublime in the galaxy, their physical appearance is exactly the opposite. They have evolved into a race of beings who are formless, so utterly hideous that the sight of a Medusan brings total madness to any human who sees one.

But some people question if it is Medusan ugliness that drives people insane.

KIRK: You're very welcome, Mister Spock. But no human can look at Kollos, even with a visor, without going mad. How do you manage?

This statement strongly suggests that it is a fact that no human can look at a Medusan without going mad, but offers no evidence about the insanity inducing process.

MCCOY: I don't care how benevolent the Medusans are supposed to be. Isn't it suicidal to deal with something ugly enough to drive men mad? Why do you do it?
SPOCK: I see, Doctor McCoy, you still subscribe to the outmoded notion, promulgated by your ancient Greeks, that what is good must also be beautiful.
MARVICK: And the reverse, of course, that what is beautiful is automatically expected to be good.
KIRK: Yes, I think most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness. One of the last of our prejudices. At the risk of sounding prejudiced, gentlemen, here's to beauty. (they stand for the toast) To Miranda Jones, the loveliest human ever to grace a starship.

KIRK: A meeting of minds is all very well, but what about love, Miranda? You're young, attractive and human. Sooner or later, no matter how beautiful their minds are, you're going to yearn for someone who looks like yourself, someone who isn't ugly.
MIRANDA: Ugly. What is ugly? Who is to say whether Kollos is too ugly to bear or too beautiful to bear?

So possibly the Medusans are too beautiful to see without going insane, instead of too ugly to see without going insane.

In my opinion the Medusans are probably neither too ugly or too beautiful to see without going insane. There should be another reason why seeing Medusans drives humans and members of many similar species insane, besides how ugly or beautiful they may be by human standards.

So what is that other reason? I don't know. I can deduce that there is probably some reason other than aesthetics that the sight of a Medusan drives humans insane, but I can not deduce what it is with the limited information available.

Well, if blinking lights can cause epilepsy sometimes, maybe specific patterns can as well drive you crazy. Forceful (or even torturous) interrogations include a bright light shined in one's face. It has at the very least an intimidating effect.

But remember that nobody in the audience has ever seen what Kollos looks like. If the sight of Kollos would always drive a human insane, it would be irresponsible and criminal for the creators of Star Trek and NBC, etc., to ever broadcast an image of Kollos or any Medusan.

So therefore every image that the audience saw that the audience interpreted as the interior of Kollos's box, or Kollos, must have been a fake, an imaged created by the creators of Star Trek and inserted in the episode, a place holder inserted where one would expect true images of Kollos to be, because they could never broadcast true images of Kollos without committing millions of crimes.

So Discofan's assumption that Kollos looks like flashing lights is probably not correct.

Thus we have no way of knowing what Kollos looks like or how the sight of a Medusan drives humans insane. No Star Trek fan can ever be certain that their theory of how the sight of a Medusan drives humans insane is correct, because there isn't enough evidence to strongly support any theory.

And if the lack of a good explanation of how the sight of a Medusan can drive a human insane in Star Trek depresses you, just be glad that you aren't a fan of ancient Greek mythology trying to explain how the Gordon Medusa could be so ugly that the sight of her could turn a human into stone!

 

[Discofan]

...
And if the lack of a good explanation of how the sight of a Medusan can drive a human insane in Star Trek depresses you, just be glad that you aren't a fan of ancient Greek mythology trying to explain how the Gordon Medusa could be so ugly that the sight of her could turn a human into stone!

Direct sight only. When Perseus killed Medusa, he used his shield as a rearview mirror and was unaffected. The severed head could then be used as a weapon to kill anybody he wanted. He used it to kill someone making advances to his mother. That's some dangerous weapon! A single look a it and you're dead!

 

[MAGolding]

Direct sight only. When Perseus killed Medusa, he used his shield as a rearview mirror and was unaffected. The severed head could then be used as a weapon to kill anybody he wanted. He used it to kill someone making advances to his mother. That's some dangerous weapon! A single look a it and you're dead!

I notice that you don't try to provide a scientific or magical explanation for how the Medusa petrifying would work. If someone thought about that too long they would probably wind up looking like your avatar.

 

[Orac]

The Way to Eden

 

[Push The Button]

TNG: True Q, streamed on Netflix.

 

[J.D.]

TOS : A Taste of Armageddon and TNG: Tin Man