Oh so...cheery!!!

[RobertScorpio]

Star Trek(s) is supposed to be about hope for the future. One one episode, any series or movie, do you think really encompasses this notion of 'hope'? Where you can point to it and say, THIS is what GR meant.

I think ARENA could fit this bill, or even DEVIL IN THE DARK. Both have somber feels to them, but both point at man and say, hey, you need to get beyond bigotry AND your need for power.



Rob
Scorpio

 

[AdmiralGarak]

"Darmok" comes to mind immediately. I view that episode as being an embodiment of Star Trek. It's got: Exploration, meeting new cultures, working through cultural barriers, uniting for a common good. "The Chase" certainly had a hopeful outlook in the end, too.

 

[happyOX]

yes totally agree!

 

[Mistral]

Who Mourns For Adonis?

It was all about Mankind walking away from its dark past and looking to the future, giving up the trappings of "Less-civilized" times.

 

[Marie1]

I dunno how people are going to take this... but what about the end of Insurrection?

 

[sbk1234]

^^^Speaking as one of the twelve who liked Insurrection, I totally agree! I don't know if it's the BEST example of this hopeful philosophy, but a really good one.

I also feel that way about the end of First Contact. Actually, both the film and the TNG episode.

 

[skeeter291]

I'm going with Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. It deals with the topic of racism and that it has no place in the future... or now for that matter.

 

[john titor]

all good things, it shows humanity as represented by Picard transcending the limitations of their minds, progress, hope blah etc

 

[RobertScorpio]

^^^Speaking as one of the twelve who liked Insurrection, I totally agree! I don't know if it's the BEST example of this hopeful philosophy, but a really good one.

I also feel that way about the end of First Contact. Actually, both the film and the TNG episode.

I was wondering when the last of the '12' was going to be revealed..that mystery is solved!!

Rob

 

[JiNX-01]

Honestly, the last few minutes of ENT's Terra Prime. Archer's speech to the founders of the coalition takes up humanity's larger role in the interstellar community and Trip and T'Pol learning that a Vulcan and a human could have a child together points directly to the true "next generation" of Trek.

 

[sbk1234]

^^^Should I risk bringing down the wrath? I actually liked the very last minute of These Are the Voyages, when they showed all the Enterprises with the narration.



(ducks!)

 

[RAMA]

Star Trek(s) is supposed to be about hope for the future. One one episode, any series or movie, do you think really encompasses this notion of 'hope'? Where you can point to it and say, THIS is what GR meant.

I think ARENA could fit this bill, or even DEVIL IN THE DARK. Both have somber feels to them, but both point at man and say, hey, you need to get beyond bigotry AND your need for power.



Rob
Scorpio

STNG'S "The Chase" takes universal harmony to a new level, its suggests humanoid species all have a common origin, and therefore common ground for peace. In the climax, when all hope for any meaningful discussion between the great Alpha Quadrant powers over the issue is lost...a Romulan secretly contacts Picard with hope for the future. THAT is ST at its best. One of ST's finest moments ever.

RAMA

 

[JiNX-01]

^^^Should I risk bringing down the wrath? I actually liked the very last minute of These Are the Voyages, when they showed all the Enterprises with the narration.



(ducks!)

I did too. In fact, there are a few scenes in the Evil Episode that I actually liked. Not one involved Riker or Troi.

 

[CAPTAIN MOUSE]

Who Mourns For Adonis?

It was all about Mankind walking away from its dark past and looking to the future, giving up the trappings of "Less-civilized" times.

In a way it is sad as well in the fact that man has given up his faith in something bigger than he is. The death of mans innocents...No I believe our dark days are just ahead.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Who Mourns For Adonis?

It was all about Mankind walking away from its dark past and looking to the future, giving up the trappings of "Less-civilized" times.

In a way it is sad as well in the fact that man has given up his faith in something bigger than he is. The death of mans innocents...No I believe our dark days are just ahead.

Time will certainly tell Mouse..But I did some recent reading about what the people of Europe were thinking when the year 1000 AD was reached..they thought the end of the world was right around the corner...my own sister had been predicting Armegeddon was just a year away for the past...30 years....

I know it sounds foolish, and a bit naive? But I think something is watching over us...be it a GOD or Aliens or Barry Manilow...but we've had 20000 nukes or more on this world for the past 30 years or so and none of them have gone off..even as an accident???

So I pray to the Manilow..or Shatner...either God will do..wink wink...

Rob