The Salvation of the Final Frontier

[CaptainMatt]

It was bland, from the uniforms to the humor. Sorry, but that's how I feel. The character interaction between Admiral Kirk-Commander Spock and Dr McCoy was a plus though. The film may not be perfect but it did inspire a few novels that took some of it's ideas and ran with it.

 

[TerragonSix]

Come to think of it, we can't rule out the possibility that they actually did find God.

When asked for proof, he didn't provide proof, and responded to disbelief with punishment. That's very much consistent with the behavior of the Christian God.

Of course, this being apparently isn't omniscient and omnipotent, and the God of Abraham is presumed to be omniscient and omnipotent because... uh, because He said so, I guess. Well, maybe He lied. Why couldn't this being have deceived Abraham and Moses and the other prophets the same way he deceived Sybok?

Well, uh, to quote Kirk: "Why does God need a starship?"

 

[AFEK ESLCAFE W]

It's been mentioned that about 20-minutes were cut out of the original cut.

A director's cut with restored running time would have been sweet for the fans, but come now...how many of us are really out there who truthfully want this to happen.

Are we enough?

 

[Captrek]

Come to think of it, we can't rule out the possibility that they actually did find God.

When asked for proof, he didn't provide proof, and responded to disbelief with punishment. That's very much consistent with the behavior of the Christian God.

Of course, this being apparently isn't omniscient and omnipotent, and the God of Abraham is presumed to be omniscient and omnipotent because... uh, because He said so, I guess. Well, maybe He lied. Why couldn't this being have deceived Abraham and Moses and the other prophets the same way he deceived Sybok?

Well, uh, to quote Kirk: "Why does God need a starship?"

If religious dogma is correct and He is the all-powerful master of the universe, then He obviously doesn’t need a starship, or any other kind of evangelism.

Christian tradition holds that the Almighty revealed Himself to the Biblical prophets. I’m proposing, in the tradition of WMFA, that it was only a Verymighty that spoke to the prophets and falsely claimed to be the Almighty. Thus the being Kirk encounters is the real Christian God, and the traditional understandng of that God as infinitely powerful is based on a lie.

 

[sonak]

Come to think of it, we can't rule out the possibility that they actually did find God.

When asked for proof, he didn't provide proof, and responded to disbelief with punishment. That's very much consistent with the behavior of the Christian God.

Of course, this being apparently isn't omniscient and omnipotent, and the God of Abraham is presumed to be omniscient and omnipotent because... uh, because He said so, I guess. Well, maybe He lied. Why couldn't this being have deceived Abraham and Moses and the other prophets the same way he deceived Sybok?

Well, uh, to quote Kirk: "Why does God need a starship?"

If religious dogma is correct and He is the all-powerful master of the universe, then He obviously doesn’t need a starship, or any other kind of evangelism.

Christian tradition holds that the Almighty revealed Himself to the Biblical prophets. I’m proposing, in the tradition of WMFA, that it was only a Verymighty that spoke to the prophets and falsely claimed to be the Almighty.

well, that question has never struck me as one that shows a lot of awareness of religious traditions anyway.


You might as well ask "what does God need with a son, or why does he need to take the form of a Human ?"

or "what does God need with animal sacrifices?" or

"why does God care if you believe in him or not?"


(this post is not meant to offend, merely to point out that it's not inconsistent with religious tradition to have God transmit his teachings or make his presence known through a starship. It's no weirder than a burning bush)