And "Return of the Archons" and "For the World is Hollow" and (stretching a point) "A Taste of Armageddon" . . . .
which species scare you so much?
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And "Return of the Archons" and "For the World is Hollow" and (stretching a point) "A Taste of Armageddon" . . . .
I don't know but these societies were all highly dysfunctional. That's not even a close call, IMO.
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What I also find interesting about those types of episodes is that the ENTERPRISE and/or its crew are always directly threatened by whatever the society's makeup is, so that Kirk, or whomever is sort of channelled into making pulling the plug on their society as the only option. So that whether you, the viewer, like the way that society does business, or not, you accept that the Good Captain had no choice. And this is never the fault of the ENTERPRISE being somewhere it had no business being, or anything like that. It's always the planet's fault and I get that it's entertainment, but why bring up these dilemmas and not explore them properly?
STAR TREK's always credited for being topical and this might be so, but it never truly investigates anything it brings up. It's just there to give the boys something to do for the better part of an hour. So, I never really bought into that, "oh, we're so topical" bovine excrement. That's why I happen to prefer the stories about The Human Condition, that have a nugget of truth at the core. These episodes tend to echo current situations, like "Drumhead" for example. An institution, even a legitimate government like that of the U.S.A. is not above a good, old fashioned witch hunt and, as with that episode, a cool head and vigillance is called for.
STAR TREK's always credited for being topical and this might be so, but it never truly investigates anything it brings up. It's just there to give the boys something to do for the better part of an hour. So, I never really bought into that, "oh, we're so topical" bovine excrement. That's why I happen to prefer the stories about The Human Condition, that have a nugget of truth at the core. These episodes tend to echo current situations, like "Drumhead" for example. An institution, even a legitimate government like that of the U.S.A. is not above a good, old fashioned witch hunt and, as with that episode, a cool head and vigillance is called for.
The Human Condition is always topical.
You mean because they tortured Picard and then O'Brien for no reason?
Vidiians, absolutely. Especially the episode where the one guy showed up wearing the dead crewman's face. Creepy.
The Think Tank cured the Vidiians. Problem solved!
That's part of it but I generally got the sense that with the Cardassians (although Evek was pretty decent) the villains felt less internal conflict and the reformers were fewer and more reluctant and the society would feel less shame in breaking treaties than there was with other antagonistic aliens.
They didn't hesitate to arrest and nearly condemn O'Brien on what they knew was fabricated evidence.
Some of the 'Human' answers are getting a bit cliche.
In real life, sure, humans. In the show they seem to be the only group that isn't obnoxiously stubborn about everything all the time.
In real life, sure, humans. In the show they seem to be the only group that isn't obnoxiously stubborn about everything all the time.
Definitely the Hirogen for me.
They wanted to bone Seven... Not in a good way...
Maybe I've grown out of it. Once I found 8472 scary, but now I'm only scared by how badly the first introduction to it was executed.
Blame it on Kes' poor telepathic skills. They didn't look like people who wanted to destroy all life in this galaxy like she said they did. If she had been more measured in her "translation" maybe Janeway wouldn't have made a deal with the borg and the borg would have been eliminated, AND ONLY THEM!!!
No wonder Arturis was pissed! Too bad he didn't blame it on the one responsible, IE Kes.
Same. But for me it was the "In The Flesh" episode. It ruined the "scariness".
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