Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas filled with a family and friends, much love and a bare minimum of political combat… for my part, right before Christmas, I got sucked into a really dumb social media political vortex… Yeah yeah, I know…
I've always been a Conservative and I've always loved Star Trek. Even after watching every episode, both the original and TNG, at least 10 times each, I STILL never get tired of them. They were brilliant.
Thank you. This neatly explains why the Original Star Trek is the only one that completely captivated me. Even in my pre-9/11 days, I clearly was a potential Conservative.
Absolutely awesome piece. The original Star Trek with William Shatner's portrayal was pure genius. Yes Rodenberry wanted to portray a liberal utopian world but I think he was enough of a realist to understand that you needed tough men willing to risk it all and sometimes beak the rules for the greater good.
Great essay on TOS! I cried at the risk speech when I was a kid and became an engineer in the space business because I loved STTOS (and the Apollo program). All of the series up through Enterprise have some special episodes with these same themes. One of my favorite episodes, from my favorite series, is “In the Pale Moonlight” on DS9. Sisko engages in realpolitik with the help of the deliciously amoral Garek to persuade the Romulans to enter the war against the Dominion. Love Trek!
Good column. Yes TOS was "liberal" in the classical sense, not like today's self-absorbed, risk averse, look at me, look at me culture. But TOS was also "conservative" in many ways too. And TOS respected the great classics of antiquity Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Bible, Shakespeare, etc. The writers back then were much better than today's. They had a grounding in the classics.
I always like "A Private Little War", which is a more hard nosed, gritty episode and it is somewhat supportive of the US effort in Southeast Asia of the 1960's. Very interesting.
I've always been a Conservative and I've always loved Star Trek. Even after watching every episode, both the original and TNG, at least 10 times each, I STILL never get tired of them. They were brilliant.
MFW genius, thank you!
Thank you. This neatly explains why the Original Star Trek is the only one that completely captivated me. Even in my pre-9/11 days, I clearly was a potential Conservative.
How can you endure living in San Francisco?
Absolutely awesome piece. The original Star Trek with William Shatner's portrayal was pure genius. Yes Rodenberry wanted to portray a liberal utopian world but I think he was enough of a realist to understand that you needed tough men willing to risk it all and sometimes beak the rules for the greater good.
Great essay on TOS! I cried at the risk speech when I was a kid and became an engineer in the space business because I loved STTOS (and the Apollo program). All of the series up through Enterprise have some special episodes with these same themes. One of my favorite episodes, from my favorite series, is “In the Pale Moonlight” on DS9. Sisko engages in realpolitik with the help of the deliciously amoral Garek to persuade the Romulans to enter the war against the Dominion. Love Trek!
Good column. Yes TOS was "liberal" in the classical sense, not like today's self-absorbed, risk averse, look at me, look at me culture. But TOS was also "conservative" in many ways too. And TOS respected the great classics of antiquity Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Bible, Shakespeare, etc. The writers back then were much better than today's. They had a grounding in the classics.
I always like "A Private Little War", which is a more hard nosed, gritty episode and it is somewhat supportive of the US effort in Southeast Asia of the 1960's. Very interesting.
The liberals also claim Harry Potter as their own, which boggles my mind. Did Voldemort totalitarian much? *wink*