Reflections on Star Trek
Jul. 30th, 2007 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trooper6Just finished watching Star Trek The Original Series episode "This Side of Paradise"
So...um...the women's dresses are really, really short. I had sort of forgotten. Dang! They must have gotten cold on set. Someone should have given them a few more yards of fabric!
Other point. So the whole point of that episode is that Kirk doesn't think that humans should be happy. That humans should be violent, angry, and unhappy. Kirk's wierd quote about how humans aren't meant for paradise...that humans are supposed to march to the drums, not to the lyre? What's up with that? That happiness isn't good for us as a species? What sort of messed up messages does this show give us?
Poor Spock.
But on the other hand, I don't always believe him...he's all..."I'm a Vulcan, I can't feel love...I can't feel happiness...I can't feel anything...blah blah..." See first off, he's only half-Vulcan...so methinks he protests a bit too much...and secondly...if Vulcans are truly only creatures of logic and so on...then Sarek would never have married Spock's mom. I mean, that isn't logical. One presumes that Sarek loved Amanda Grayson...I mean, otherwise, why would he even marry her?
See...I think Spock lied a lot about Vulcan culture to his human battle buddies. Spock is all..."Vulcans can't feel things..." then he's all, "Vulcans don't lie" -- yeah, yeah...I don't think we can trust the things that Spock says about Vulcans.
Kirk rhymes with jerk...I don't think that is a coincidence.
I wish we could have an entirely new Star Trek movie about entirely new people in Star Fleet Academy. I don't really feel the need to see more Kirk being a ho. But this time, a younger ho. What is this going to be...a strange odd couple buddy movie? What-evah.
I need to be sleeping right now.
So...um...the women's dresses are really, really short. I had sort of forgotten. Dang! They must have gotten cold on set. Someone should have given them a few more yards of fabric!
Other point. So the whole point of that episode is that Kirk doesn't think that humans should be happy. That humans should be violent, angry, and unhappy. Kirk's wierd quote about how humans aren't meant for paradise...that humans are supposed to march to the drums, not to the lyre? What's up with that? That happiness isn't good for us as a species? What sort of messed up messages does this show give us?
Poor Spock.
But on the other hand, I don't always believe him...he's all..."I'm a Vulcan, I can't feel love...I can't feel happiness...I can't feel anything...blah blah..." See first off, he's only half-Vulcan...so methinks he protests a bit too much...and secondly...if Vulcans are truly only creatures of logic and so on...then Sarek would never have married Spock's mom. I mean, that isn't logical. One presumes that Sarek loved Amanda Grayson...I mean, otherwise, why would he even marry her?
See...I think Spock lied a lot about Vulcan culture to his human battle buddies. Spock is all..."Vulcans can't feel things..." then he's all, "Vulcans don't lie" -- yeah, yeah...I don't think we can trust the things that Spock says about Vulcans.
Kirk rhymes with jerk...I don't think that is a coincidence.
I wish we could have an entirely new Star Trek movie about entirely new people in Star Fleet Academy. I don't really feel the need to see more Kirk being a ho. But this time, a younger ho. What is this going to be...a strange odd couple buddy movie? What-evah.
I need to be sleeping right now.
