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‘Star Trek' franchise an homage to humanist philosophy
Worcester (MA) Telegram ^ | 06/29/2010 | Bronislaus B. Kush

Posted on 06/30/2010 9:05:26 AM PDT by iowamark

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To: C19fan
Pretty sad how athesists have hijacked the term “humanist”.

At the time the Nazis hijacked the swastika, it was a "good luck" symbol in the West.

21 posted on 06/30/2010 9:31:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: longtermmemmory

The only thing interesting about TNG was the Borg and Klingons the rest was leftist crap.


22 posted on 06/30/2010 9:35:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: longtermmemmory

Gene Coon.

BTW, I see there are 36 full Star Trek episodes online at:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177731/videogallery


23 posted on 06/30/2010 9:43:18 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: C19fan

Your questions were the same as mine. How were societal tasks (cleaning, building, waiting tables, etc) allocated? Did it just work out that everyone wanted to do the exactly perfect job to fill all the needs? I don’t think so.


24 posted on 06/30/2010 9:46:51 AM PDT by Pete (exponential problems require exponential solutions : 29thday.org)
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To: iowamark
She said Star Trek was imbued with what she called the “IDIC Philosophy,” namely, infinite diversity in infinite combination.

The only sort of diversity leftists allow is the kind where everyone is exactly the same in every way.

...In that episode, a planet's population follows, in a zombie-like manner, a mysterious cult-like leader, who allows no divergent viewpoints. The society absorbs individuals into its collective body and the world is free of hate, conflict and crime but creativity, freedom and individualism are stifled. Ms. Sackett said that “Archons,” like other Star Trek storylines, warns how people can be controlled by religion government. There I fixed it.

25 posted on 06/30/2010 9:49:06 AM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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To: C19fan

In the very first episode of The Next Generation the crew of the Enterprise is shopping at a Farpoint bazaar. Then there is the Ferengi and the gold-pressed latinum.

This no monetary system thing is ludicrous to the extreme but they repeated it in the movie First Contact. (avaiable at Hulu for free)


26 posted on 06/30/2010 9:51:19 AM PDT by GeronL (Just say NO to conservativecave.com, it rots your teeth!)
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Trek Fest in Riverside, Iowa last weekend:


27 posted on 06/30/2010 9:52:59 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: GeronL
gold-pressed latinum.

Look at the bright side, the Ferengi and non-Federation worlds adopted the Ron Paul gold standard, hee hee

28 posted on 06/30/2010 9:58:01 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: 1rudeboy

I’m a Trekkie despite the humanism. Captain Kirk and Warf were favorites because they bucked the milksop humanism.


29 posted on 06/30/2010 9:58:37 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: 1rudeboy

I’m a Trekkie despite the humanism. Captain Kirk and Warf were favorites because they bucked the milksop humanism.


30 posted on 06/30/2010 9:58:46 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: Pete

That is one of the big reasons I like the JJ Abrams movie. They had the Nokia phone in the antique car little Kirk “borrowed”, McCoy mentions he was stripped to his “bones” in his divorce, one of the workers admired Kirk’s motorcycle, obviously it is something that can be replicated and is expensive of the guy would have his own, and is surprised Kikr throws him the keys.


31 posted on 06/30/2010 10:01:03 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: DaxtonBrown

I liked the episode when they had those dissatisifed Federation citizens sabotating the weather system on that hedonistic planet Risa and how the visitors acted like those British sailors hijacked by the Iranians starting to whine about not having their pleasures.


32 posted on 06/30/2010 10:03:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: freepertoo

“If you’re a big fan of the Star Trek science fiction genre, then there’s a good chance that you’re a humanist at heart.”

Nah. I just wanted to see what green-skinned hottie Capt. Kirk was going to score. Oh yeah, and what random unknown guy on the landing party was going to get killed.


33 posted on 06/30/2010 10:03:29 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
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To: Allegra; dfwgator

For your viewing pleasure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekKsuoYjrqY


34 posted on 06/30/2010 10:05:27 AM PDT by GOP_Raider (Please consider the logging and timber industries when printing this tagline)
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To: C19fan

as explained on the show the gold is worthless, its just the way to keep the latinum, which is apparently a liquid.


35 posted on 06/30/2010 10:06:02 AM PDT by GeronL (Just say NO to conservativecave.com, it rots your teeth!)
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To: iowamark
In that episode, a planet's population follows, in a zombie-like manner, a mysterious cult-like leader, who allows no divergent viewpoints. The society absorbs individuals into its collective body and the world is free of hate, conflict and crime but creativity, freedom and individualism are stifled.

I think she's blowing smoke. There are no religious connotations to "Landru" in that episode. Watch it. It reminds one almost precisely of the cult of personality you see with a Hugo Chavez or Castro, or more disturbingly--of Obama. It reads as a warning against mindless totalitarianism.

36 posted on 06/30/2010 10:06:24 AM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandwithArizona)
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To: Made In The USA
Yvonne Craig, later famous as Batgirl:


37 posted on 06/30/2010 10:13:28 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

I remember an episode from the Original Series in which a people worshiped “The Sun”; but it was revealed at episode’s end to be “The Son” (of God). Also, the characters constantly make references to God “My God, Man!”, “Oh, my God”, etc.


38 posted on 06/30/2010 10:14:53 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: iowamark
Mr. Roddenberry was an admitted humanist who liberally sprinkled his out of this world stories about Capt. James Tiberius Kirk, Mr. Spock and the other Star Trek characters with the fundamentals of humanism — a non-theistic, or secular, approach, philosophy, or ideology.

Interestingly, George Lucas explained to Bill Moyers in a 1999 interview, that he consciously set about to re-create myths and the classic mythological motifs.He wanted to tell an old myth in a new way. But the old myth he referred to was Eastern religion, not Western Christianity. The Force was the God-force of pantheism and New Age Humanism. And the the instruction scenes between Yoda and Obi-wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker provides a comprehensive instruction and initiation into Cosmic Humanism theology.

39 posted on 06/30/2010 10:17:39 AM PDT by mjp (pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
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To: GeronL
>>>latinum, which is apparently a liquid.<<<

Which that chatterbox Morn demonstrated in “Who Mourns for Morn”, by regurgitating a glass of latinum, from his second stomach, and giving it to Quark.

40 posted on 06/30/2010 10:42:36 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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