That is definitely one thing to keep in mind. Star Trek is not one huge
monolithic vision (Like Babylon 5) but more like a large number of short
stories that all happen to invlove the same characters. The newer star
treks are less like that, but the two "real" star trek shows are like
that.
Since I don't remember the names of the episodes, I'll tell you which ones
I assume you are talking about. "Lal" must be the the episode where Data
creates a daughter (named Lal). That was incredible. Another episode
that was really good was the episode where Picard lives out life on
another world as a married man. Once I saw that episode and couldn't stop
crying for hours. I had to go to the computer lab and compose a message
to my favourite teacher/best friend about the whole thing. People looked
at me ery strangely, but I didn't have an internet connection in my room,
it was late at night, and all of my friends were asleep or something. I
bet they assumed that someone had dumped me or that my dog or my parents
had just died or something. If only they had known, I bet they would have
thought I was crazy.
Most Star Trek episodes are complete trash/junk/garbage but some of them
are incredible, much like the sole purpose of most mainstream movies is to
waste time and make us appreciate the good ones all the more.
-- Joel VanLaven
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Sean Johnston wrote:
> >On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Sean Johnston wrote:
> >
> >> >However, the world of Trek is one where the military-industrial complex
> >> >controls just about everything. Yuck.
> >>
> >> Huh? I think this is the perception because the Trek stories focus on the
> >> Trek characters, most of whom are in this military. However, it's clear
> >> that there are a lot of other leveld to the Trek universe than the
> >> Federation. Is Earth controlled by a Starfleet Admiral? How about Bajor?
> >
> >Sorry, I guess I have a mistaken impression. Never having watched many of
> >the Star Trek shows, I guess I jumped to conclusions. I'm definitely not
> >a fan nor likely to become one.
> >
> >-----
> >"If navigating the world wide web is computer literacy, then the meaning
> >of literacy has really been debased." --Walter Miller
> >Chris Shaffer shaffer@uic.edu http://www.uic.edu/~shaffer/
>
> Chris,
> Before deciding that for sure, watch two episodes: "The Measure of
> a Man" and "Lal".
>
> -Sean
>
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