----Captain Pike was an idiot. Here he is, on a planet with a woman who is HOT HOT HOT!, and is hot in many different forms, and yet he insists on getting back to the Enterprise. And yeah, Vina, in real life, is a horribly deformed yucko; but the Talosians can make her into anything! And what they make her into is HOT HOT HOT!----
All right. Now these peabrains think they're gonna start screwing around with STAR TREK. I don't think so, DUmbasses.
Had you short-busser sadsacks the mental capacity to really understand the episode, you'd have understood that "The Cage" was in fact an allegory for the sad little lives led by you, the denizens of Democratic Underground, mainly, an examination of what happens to a society when it chooses to wallow in illusion and fantasy rather than going out into the world and dealing with life as it actually is. The Talosians had basically nuked their entire planet uncounted centuries before and were forced underground; instead of rebuilding their civilization as best they could, they concentrated on enhancing their mental abilities, to the point that they could exist in total illusion rather than live in the real world. Pike, meanwhile, was frustrated with his life and responsibilities as a starship captain, and himself nearly fell victim to the hide-myself-away mentality by considering chucking his entire career and running off to become an Orion slave trader. It was his experience with the illusionists on Talos, and his encounter with Vina -- who could not deal with returning to society in her disfigured state -- that convinced him that he had to continue along his chosen path and contend with all the challenges it threw his way, which meant going back to the Enterprise and not resigning his commission. Jeez, did Pike's conversation with Dr. Boyce not illuminate any of this for you? Did you not remember Boyce's words that "a man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it.... or turns his back on it and starts to wither away." Retreating with Vina into a world of illusion would have been the easy path to take. But then, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you low-life lily-livered lemon-sucking leftists would want him to choose that option, because your whole lives are dedicated to taking the easy way out of things, aren't they?
Christopher Pike would gladly have taken the time to ram a Starfleet-issue boot up the behinds of every last one of you. Even after he'd been horribly crippled by delta radiation in his heroic rescue of cadets on a training mission, he'd have gotten right out of that automated life-support wheelchair and WALKED, just as if John Kerry had been elected, and he'd have walked right up to all of YOU, and then we'd have seen who the real idiots were, wouldn't we, honchos?
You children all make me sick. STAR TREK is clearly beyond your collective grasp. Go back to your episodes of "Lost in Space". Or better yet, stick to that watered-down touchy-feely "The Next Generation" crap; that show seems to be more your speed.
Oh, and by the way, George Bush is still president.
-Dan 