As the Corporate Captain begins praying, Star Trek embraces religion, it’s rational
Joshua Tyler | renew
Star Trek has long established complex and ever-changing relationships with religion. This week, when the captain of the business kneels and begins to recite the Lord’s prayer Star Trek: A Strange New World Season 3 premieres.
Newer obsessed fans, the only franchise is secular extremism Star Trek: Discovery It may be shocked by this, but long-term hikers shouldn’t do it.
Modern pop culture treats grand ancient series as if it were an atheist, but it is totally unreal. The idea comes from Captain Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation The plot “Who looks at the observer”.
In the future human state, Picard opposes irrational beliefs about superstition. He lobbies for rational thinking.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is an open, declared atheist. But when Star Trek It debuted on TV in the 1960s, 90% of the U.S. population is determined to be adamant Christian, and atheistic TV shows are impossible. If possible, Roddenberry would do anything different. His Trek version is designed to make people think, not tell them what to think.
Those early trek plots often avoid direct resolution of faith in God. But we have little idea of Captain Kirk’s belief as a character, at least at that time, he was written as a Christian.
In the episode of Season 2, “Who Mourns for Adonis,” Kirk said in confronting the Greek god, “Humans do not need God. We think that is enough.”
Reading too fast, you might think Kirk says humans no longer need God, but the plural form of the word is key. This line is actually a statement of the Christian faith that practices that monotheistic belief.
Facing the claim that he is Jehovah himself Star Trek V: The Last BoundaryJames T. Kirk is open to this possibility, but is also ready to question its effectiveness. When this does not measure the One outlined in the Christian Bible, Kirk faces the wrath of lightning and asks, “What does God need with a starship?”
Kirk is written as a rationalist, and first of all a skeptic. The other beliefs he possessed were triggered from it. He is rational, moderate, and perhaps Christian.
If Star Trek had a formal religion, that was it. Rationalism. Not atheism.
Although Captain Picard and the next generation of crew members are atheists in their view, this also stems from rationalist methodology.
There are big differences in the subsequent series The next generation,,,,, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Religion is the central issue of the entire series, focusing on a planet full of believers and Star Trek Captain Ben Sisko, who may be God himself.
Sisko took a rationalist attitude to resist worshippers and focused on getting things done through logical thinking. However, his Bajoran Emergency Officer Kira Nerys is based on religious beliefs. Many episodes of the show follow her as she prays in the temple and communicates with the priest.
Kira has no reason for rationality, but rationality is the right to respect and support what she believes in establishing a positive framework for life for her. Without her faith, Kira would collapse after the horror life she led.
The Federation insists that the gods Kira trust aliens, but in terms of behavior and power, they fit the definition of God and any existence. Kira’s religion and the gods she worships are as real as the nose on your face.
Who says Christopher Pike is not?
As an early, more childish day as an online journalist, I helped the new atheist movement that believed that God’s existence was unproveable. Therefore, it is not reasonable to believe him. Star Trek has always believed that while God’s existence is true, unless you are Bajoran), it cannot be proven.
Finally, it is probably the Star Trek view that is the most plausible approach. People are encouraged to embrace which idea is most beneficial, whether it is atheism, faith or something else.
In the 1960s, Star Trek was a moderately level Christian show rooted in the best version of these values.
In the 1980s, as atheism developed, it studied the future without religion.
In the 1990s, Star Trek preached the tolerance and coexistence between believers and non-believers, respecting each other’s beliefs or non-believers.
In the 2000s, franchises tended to secular fundamentalism and rejected faith in favor of good atmosphere and resilient emotionalism.
Now, in the tide’s transformation, we once again follow the corporate captain embracing the father’s religion and turning to God in moments of fear and despair.
For Star Trek, this is the rational consistency after a brief insanity. This is a sign that an era is changing. The new atheist movement to clear the church is weakening.
Some atheists like me, who have pushed an atheist world, and they are starting to admit that it may not be a good idea. Others like me think that if only people apply Cold Vulcan logic to reality, things will be better.
This is a classic mistake Spock may make. It doesn’t take human factors into account and assumes that everyone has logic. This view is not rational. With age and experience, the world has learned that many people cannot apply intellectually strict thinking. Trying to impose it on them through mass media will only lead to cultural disasters.
I don’t need or want God to regulate my behavior or guide my path, but many people do it. If that’s you, you’re a good company because Captain Parker does the same.
The future of mankind is one of the infinite possibilities. Star Trek is at its best when considering everyone, taking a reasonable approach with unlimited combinations of future possibilities
