Morning, lovely people - #Trekkies especially. 🖖
Today for #OnlySky I reflect on a solid episode of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds that does a *lot* of work around a classic Trek trope: the character who's having a subjective experience that others can't easily verify.
This is *such* a humanist concept. Phenomenology doesn't always account for how each of us carries a world within. How we show up for each other when words aren't enough is *everything*.
#Humanism #CoSoTV
https://onlysky.media/mclark/how-whats-lost-in-translation-can-be-found-again-in-empathy/
@MLClark I'll be looking forward to your thoughts about the "Lower Decks" crossover.
Apparently there's a SNW musical episode coming too.
Sigh. I know that music has a long history with Trek, but if it isn't Vic Fontaine it's Seven in Paris's holodeck suite or the Doctor singing opera, when all I really want is more drunken Klingon war ballads and melancholic melodies for flute. :(
@MLClark The crossover and the musical come off to me as gimmicks. They have only ten episodes in a season, yet they have to go for gimmicks?
What's next, Spock on water skis jumping over a shark?!
@MLClark Re the flute, methinks that when Sir Patrick passes I may have to create a music montage of his career using "The Inner Light."
Definitely should. The other piece you linked makes me itchy to rewatch For All Mankind. There's a lot of good we could be leaning into as a species, for sure.
@MLClark I haven't seen "For all Mankind." We don't have Apple TV, and it's not available on disc ... I know it has rave reviews, and I always trust Ron Moore's writing, but the space historian in me has a problem with the premise. The Soviets were never close to a crewed lunar landing, and by Apollo 11 had pretty much moved on to developing a small space station.
Grumble. 🤨
I understand having to let the premise slide a touch, but it's a really good cultural analysis of what would happen to US self-image and subsequent investment directions if the US "lost" the space race.
There's also a lot to love in the care taken with showing all the moving parts (politically, as well as technically, and in training) that make such missions go. One of the best hard science space shows we have, by far.