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."