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well, that too, but itās a clone.
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Okayā¦ now we need a Klingon spin-off show which follows a couple of Mormon-style evangelist Klingons, spreading the good word of Kahless!
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Iām gonna reply to myself as I canāt understand how a Trek thread isnāt commenting on this and is just posting memes.
The real story of the final months of Nimoyās life and his complex relationship w Shatner will probably be kept secret until Bill moves on out of this mortal coil.
But damn - this 7 minute short kicked me right in the feels.
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Maybe some of us need a light-hearted respite from all the utterly horrible shit thatās happening throughout the entire world?
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Well, since you insistā¦
I didnāt personally comment on it because ādigital de-agingā technology has been around long enough now that I no longer find it compelling or noteworthy in and of itself. Heck, Michael Jordan did the ācoming face to face with younger iterations of himselfā in a Gatorade commercial over 20 years ago, and that commercial arguably had more of a plot.
Iām glad you enjoyed the Captain Kirk short. I just didnāt want to āyuckā anyone elseās āyumā.
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I think the only time religion was presented in a positive light was with the Bajorans, or am I wrong?
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Honestly, religion rarely came up prior to DS9 in any kind of way, and thatās largely down to Roddenberry wanting to show humanity having āgrown pastā religionā¦ None of the main characters who were human were depicted as being religious at all. You did have things like Vulcan cultural practices that could be seen as religious, but were not framed that way. They only really get into whatās going on with Klingons in later TNG episodes, on DS9, and Voyager where there is a whole episode about Sto-vo-korā¦ They did clone Khaless in TNG, but is he a prophetic figure or just a clone of some guy who is a legendā¦
Of course, someone wrote a book about itā¦
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I think with the Bajorans they also did a decent job showing religious fundamentalism, not just the positive parts
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Yeah, they did, early on, tooā¦ like the last episode of season one, with everyoneās favorite space Karen complaining about Keikoās not teaching that the wormhole was the celestial temple was greatā¦ Honestly, the spiritual path that Kira goes on was well done. She seems to have a kind of superficial relationship with her faith at the outset, but over the series, she really deepens and complicates her faithā¦ I guess hanging out with an important religious figure in your faith and seeing how his own interactions with the religion changes him (especially since he had a direct line to her gods), impacted her own understandingā¦ How different would some Christians be if they actual spent time with the actual historical Jesusā¦ 
Seems to me, that heād probably not be what they expect at all (not a white dude hoarding guns and demanding blind obedience to some patriarchal system, but a radical Palestinian Jew pissed off about the occupation of his lands, and demanding better of his people)ā¦
As weāve been rewatching Iāve come to decide that sheās kind of my favorite character on the show. Theyāre all great, but I find her story to be the most interesting, complicated, and compelling.
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This reminds me of a text I read in a fanzine at the beginning of the century (I always wanted to use that expression) whose author said that Mr. Rodenbarry followed, perhaps unconsciously, positivism, a French philosophical school proposed by Auguste Comte.
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