Susan Sackett, center, who was personal executive assistant to Trek franchise creator Gene Roddenberry, recently spoke to the Greater Worcester Humanists group.
Posted on 06/30/2010 9:05:26 AM PDT by iowamark
I didn’t bother reading the whole thing. What’s the name of the book she’s flogging? /s
I remember the original Star Trek also dealt with Fascism. There was an episode where a friend of Kirk went down to a planet and tried to use the so called “good aspects of the Third Reich” to a primitive planet only to find that it went the same ways as Hitler’s Germany.
Nah. I just thought Spock was cool.
Ms. Sackett said Roddenberry was so resolute about religion that he refused suggestions to add a chaplain to the crew of the starship Enterprise.She said Star Trek was imbued with what she called the “IDIC Philosophy,” namely, infinite diversity in infinite combination.
Ms. Sackett, with the aid of film clips, said that “The Return of the Archons,” from the original series, was a good example of how Mr. Roddenberry employed elements of humanism in his works.
In that episode, a planet's population follows, in a zombie-like manner, a mysterious cult-like leader, who allows no divergent viewpoints.
Hypocrite.
So it was an indictment of international Communists and the Weather Underground, Jane Fonda, et al imposing Communism on the South Vietnamese?!!!
Apparently she didn't watch the show. OR she thinks that a guy with a super-mind who can mind-control other people, and a race of people who can put people into dream-states where they live their lives, are not "supernatural".
And she apparently missed Kahn.
It's pretty funny because there weren't really "religious" themes, but it was clear from watching the show that without religion, it really was science FICTION.
My favorite being that for some strange reason, they had pretty much infinite power, and yet everybody was still working hard, but supposedly for "personal fulfilment". So they had restaurants even though nobody needed money -- so did people just come and eat for free, and how did that work?
Once in a while they'd bring somebody from that past to remind them that they weren't really as advanced as they thought.
If Vietnamese aren't humans, can she say what race they ARE?
Yes, one of the many times when they conveniently ignored the prime directive, making her comment about that aspect also humorous in her ignorance.
The Prime Directive was a slap at those who believed that you couldn’t interfere, that you should live an isolationist life.
"Get a Life!"
I always thought they simply used the Doctor to play the role of Chaplain.
bump
The guy was a former teacher of Kirk’s, a university professor who tried to implement Naziism... sounds awfully familiar, don’t it ? The educated elites can make leftism work if only THEY are in charge...
Pretty sad how athesists have hijacked the term “humanist”. The humanism that rose during the Renaissance had a strong Christian flavor to it. Someone like St. Thoman More and Erasmus, both characterized as humanists, would be dismayed the terms is now synonymous with atheism. Roddenberry was not very “rational” when he described the future Federation as having no monetary system and people did not work for a wage. The question I always had is how was Kirk allocated the nice hi-rise apartment overlooking SF Bay or how did Bones buy him those antique glasses and first edition of Tale of Two Cities from Wrath of Khan.
So can we now ban “secular humanism” in schools now as it too is a religion? One that posits all men as “gods” in charge of their own destiny? She certainly presents it as incompatible with any other religious viewpoint.
That was a classic skit.
I knew people like the ones asking the questions in the skit when I was in high school.
They gathered at one of their homes every afternoon to watch Star Trek reruns at 5:00 and they all had these secret Star Trek names they had bestowed on each other.
They knew every freakin' line of every freakin' episode by heart.
Welllll, let's see:
Did the New Testament preach Forgiveness?
Did the New Testament preach Charity?
Did the New Testament preach Tolerance and Diversity (Good Samaritan)?
Did the New Testament preach Truth?
Did the New Testament preach Faith?
Seems to us the New Testament where this Word came down to Earth in human form (as in "humanitarian"), not the Old Testament of Fear, Superstition, Revenge, Wealth, and Authoritarianism, is quite the paragon of Reason.
Apparently Ms Sackett, along with about 80 per cent of the rest of humanity including many clergy, don't have a clue. Gene Roddenberry himself? Who knows?
Johnny Suntrade
The less involved Roddenbury was with a series, the better it performed.
The original trek prospered under gene koon.
the next generation only avoided cancellation after the second season ouster of roddenbury.
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