This is one of my posts where I “review” Star Trek episodes. I will be giving each one a star rating. I sometimes will make some comments about non-political parts of them that I like or don’t like. I’ll sometimes use the issues raised in the episode to discuss similar issues in real life. And I will sometimes simply high-light the progressive politics of ST. ST is in-line with the three original themes of this blog, as I explain in the first ST post where I offer some general thoughts about ST.
I’m not very familiar with The Original Series and there might be some small amount of material there that would affect what I say about Star Trek (i.e. how often religion is mentioned)
Lastly. multi-culturalism is such a pervasive theme in ST that I only comment on it when it goes beyond the norm (i.e. inter-species partners).
“Favor The Bold” See this for a plot summary.
A non-political episode, I give it three stars out of five.
“Sacrifice of Angels” See this for a plot summary.
A non-political episode, I give it three stars out of five.
“You Are Cordially Invited...” See this for a plot summary.
The Klingons are fairly xenophobic. Martok explains that some Klingons believe that “bringing aliens into our families we risk losing as our identities as Klingons.” He then also says “we don’t embrace other cultures, we conquer them.” This makes the marriage of Worf and Dax fairly significant in terms of the multi-cultural theme of ST. I generally skip this sort of thing (i.e. Bashir the human dating Leeta the Bajoran) because it’s very common in ST, but this relationship goes a bit further in terms of promoting multi-culturalism.
Besides that, a very non-political episode. I give it three stars out of five.
“Resurrection” See this for a plot summary.
A mirror universe episode. I’m not a big fan of them, and this might be worse than the others. I give it two stars out of five.
No comments:
Post a Comment