Take part in my Bible Study - week 4 - "Prime Factors"

[dominion_ruler]

The study continues to go well. I will have to miss the next 2 weeks, so I hope people will still come when we resume again for the remaining 6 weeks. Here are the questions addresses in today's class:

1. Did you find this episode to be a frustrating watch , why or why not?


2. What did you notice about the Sikarians?. What was there only concern? Would you say they are a selfish people?

Matthew 6:1-4


3. At one point, Gathro's assistant Jared says "Rules are meant to bend for the seriousness of the moment". Do you agree with this statement? Think about the ten commandments. For example, how tempting is it to lie even if it appears to help someone in a particular needy circumstance?


4. The crew is 70 years away from home. Seska mentions that she promised to be with her brother on his birthday. She also says her people (the Maquis) are fighting and dying back at home. Carey says he is a husband and father, and doesn't want his children to grow up fatherless. Then Belanna says we're probably considered dead to everyone at home. These are some of the issues Captain Janeway must consider and deal with. Do you believe this is enough to compromise principles?

5. What do you think about the moment when the Sikerian technology refused to integrate into Voyager's system, and nearly destroyed the ship?


6. Belanna said that she wanted to pay the price for her actions instead of covering up the incident for the rest of her life. Do you think the fact that the device failed to work made this easier for her, and do you think she would have turned out differently if the device worked and the crew made it home safely?

Hebrews 12:10-11


7. Tuvok went against what was right to meet the captain's highest goal of getting her crew home, yet he spared her of breaking her oaths and morals. Sometimes people say you have to do a little bad for a greater good. Is this justified, especially when doing it to help someone else?


8. Final thoughts?

 

[Lynx]

1. Frustrating watch? Definitely not. A good episode.

2. The Sikarians were only seeking pleasure. Yes, I find them a bit selfish.

3. I agree that rules must be bent a little sometimes. It's not good to be too rigid in interpreting the rules, especially not when it's about helping people.

4. In this case, yes. She must consider every opportunity to get the crew home but also be ready to stand for the principles if an opportunity to go home is daaging to another species.

5. My thoughts was "so much for dabbling with technology they didn't know about." I remember blaming Seska for the accident, at that point not knowing that she was about to be revealed as a Cardassian spy and betray the ship in a coming episode.

6. I thinbk she did the right thing to take the responsibility for the failure but I'm not sure if the failure itself made it easier for her to take the responsibility. However, if they had been able to go home with the help of the device, I'm sure that everything had been forgiven and forgotten and that Janeway would have been grateful to B'Elanna and Tuvok for doing what they did.

7. I think it can be that way sometimes, in this case among others.

8. A good episode, showing the Prime Directive from another angle.

 

[Voyagerian]

I found it a good episode, in the dramatic context of the moral quandry created by the discovery of the technology. The last scene between Janeway and Tuvok is a standout. As for B'Ellanna, it demonstrated how she had already evolved as a person at that point in the series, having the courage to stand up and take responsibility for her actions...a good example for a 'moral decision' as it were. And, in the final analysis, it hardly wrecked her relationship with the captain, who was more angry at Tuvok, from whom she told him herself would have been the last person to take the steps he did. Vulcans, I would think, would be considered to be among the most 'moral' of species, as, at least from their point-of-view, emotions are at the heart of 'evil'-in their society, at any rate. And they aren't entirely wrong, are they?For, extremity of emotion, at least, in humans, can sometimes lead us to make bad choices, 'in the heat of the moment', be it anger, or something else.