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Re: Live Long and Prosper

web directory — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:14:49 -0000

I just love Star Trek Voyager

Re: Live Long and Prosper

Teaching English in Taiwan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:15:11 -0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

Re: Live Long and Prosper

Dan Schneider — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:06:57 -0000

I know that last tv series was supposed to answer that q- but I never watched it. After all, after the first show, was any of the rest necessary?

Re: Live Long and Prosper

The Viscount — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:11:52 -0000

The Vulcans had superhuman strength, were smarter, so how did the humans subdue them and make them lesser partners in the Federation?

I never got that impression. I think the implication is that the federation was founded by humans, but I'm certain the Vulcans didn't think of themselves as being subdued.

God, I'm such geek!

Re: Live Long and Prosper

Dan Schneider — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:46:51 -0000

Spock wa sbad ass when he went into that 7 year mating ritual- Pon Farr, or the like.

The Vulcans had superhuman strength, were smarter, so how did the humans subdue them and make them lesser partners in the Federation?

Re: Live Long and Prosper

KC45s — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:04:50 -0000

Viscount--I was pleased to read this, as I am a Spock admirer, indeed have wondered why someone hasn't started a cult based on his beliefs. (I mean, would that be stranger than some cults out there?) Thanks to TV Land's recent re-airing of the original series, I'm seeing a lot of these episodes for the first time as a mature (?) adult. To me, Spock is the real engine of the show, the one character's with reactions that are always interesting. TV history has a thousand Kirks running around, jumping through windows and chasing crooks in Grand Torinos; but Spock is really an original, for all the reasons you mention. Logic. A pacifist, yet steel-spined and aware of duty. And then he's possibly television's first vegetarian!

Anyway, nice post.

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Viscount LaCarte — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:21:12 -0000

Kathleen:

Believe me, I was shocked when I realized that a fictional character had such a profound effect on me. It was almost an epiphany, because while it was always there, I never really faced it.

Thanks for reading!

Re: Live Long and Prosper

Kathleen Maher — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:55:43 -0000

I really liked this, Viscount. It's not often I can understand how old TV shows have managed to effect people so profoundly that they have favorites; they think long deeply about the characters and their possible meaning as real life archetypes. I tend to recall TV as a parade of trends, jokes that were funny at the time, with occasional noticeably fine acting, directing, writing, or filming. Your recollection showed clearly how childhood heroes can help us define who we are and the paths we most wish to take. That's a first for me, so thanks.