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).
“The Ascent” See this for a plot summary.
A very non-political episode, but a good one. I give it two stars out of five.
“Rapture” See this for a plot summary.
A very non-political episode, but a good one, I give it two stars out of five.
“The Darkness And The Light” See this for a plot summary.
This episode fuels my positive feelings about the Bajoran resistance. It was a very inspirational struggle, both because of what they were fighting against and because they conducted their struggle honorably. The bombing described in the movie seems like a pretty legitimate operation- a military figure is still a military figure even in their home, although in some ways it’s better to attack the military somewhere besides their home. The IRA killed a lot of part-time members of the security forces when they were off-duty and those attacks were a little bit easier for people to interpret as sectarian, even though they weren’t sectarian (I discuss sectarianism or the lack of it among republicans 2/3 the way through this post).
A good episode, I give it two stars out of five.
“The Begotten” See this for a plot summary.
A very non-political episode but a good one, I give it two stars out of five.
My blog’s name is sort of “The Black And The Green,” which is a reference to past and present solidarity between Black Americans (and Americans of color in general) and Irish people living under British rule in Ireland (at the time the solidarity takes place). See the post in January of 2009 and “Black and Green” in the label cloud.
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