OH6@PSUVM.BITNET (03/10/86)
**** this will be my final posting on net.startrek ****
it's been fun,
I don't know how many people out there read my postings (they were sparse
I tryed to wait until I had something to say) but I hope you enjoyed them.
befor I leave the net there are a few subjects that have been bouncing around
that I'd like to address, and I'd like to start a fresh arguement for you to
chew on. First I'd like to appologise to Sean Kamath who asked for a copy of
the startrek episode list I posted. I deleted the path to his node and could
could not send him the list - I did get the list out to Shelli Meyers and
asked her to see if she couldn't email her copy to him. now to Trek...
1) As near as I've been able to determine the important thing in using
abbreviations is that they easily convey the information they are
condensing, not that they adhere to some artificial convension. therefore
it shouldn't be a major consern if one uses COTEF, or CATEF, or CEF, or
"City...", or ever " that one with the big time donut". as long as it is
understood that we are discussing the episode whos name is "City on the
Edge of Forever". In other words Chris Wayne may or may not be stuckup,
but he is definitely a jerk.
2) I wrote a posting a while ago called Harve Bennet, wherein I
questioned the direction he was taking StarTrek. I was somewhat
disappointed w/ the number of responses It generated, but one of the
responses it did generate brought up some points I'd like to shoot down.
First, one need not be afraid of change to observe that all change is
not positive, to accuse me of being afraid of change because I do not
like the changes that Harve Bennet has made is unfair and does not
address the issues I raised, further more and secondly, Jerry Boyajian d
said that if Startrek can't survive without Spock or the Enterprise
then It doesn't deserve to keep going. Should I project this and say
If StarTrek can't survive w/out Kirk,McCoy,Scott,the Federation, the
Klingons, The Romulans, and the Gorns then...Well then, What is StarTrek?
If I had been asked Before StarTrekIII I would have said the Enterprise,
not because it was the subject of the show, It wasn't, but because it was
the StarTrek Icon. My heart thrilled a little when I'd see the mighty
ship float gracefully away at the end of each episode. She was the
enbodyment of mans quest for Knowledge, and a symbol of all his higher
achievements. I always felt a certain rightness in the Idea that Kirk,
Spock and the others would each turn over their respective positions in
time in a sort of changing of the guard. But the Enterprise was more an
Idea than a ship, and I thought of her as eternal. I think Harve Bennet
delt a grevious blow to startrek when he destroyed her. Now that there
is no Enterprise, is there a startrek? - Yes, but the starTrek we loved
from the series cannot survive for long if she is not replaced. And not
by some phalis shaped copy of the Millenium Falcon, but by a ship that
enbodies the same Ideals that the Enterprise did ... to *boldly* go where
no man has gone before. StarTrek is **NOT!!** Star Wars, we already have
a Star Wars, let's not turn a Idea as proud as StarTrek into another one.
3) this is the Arguement I want to propigate: without dwelling on Leepers
article: Kirk was obviously speaking of the human Ideal of behavior and
not of some ethnocentric consept of human superiority. His statement was
much as a Cherokee Indian saying of a close white man, "though he came
from the outside, he was Cherokee" meaning that his skin color nolonger
ment anything he was a brother among the tribe.
My point is this, I'm not so sure something shouldn't be said about
human superiority to Vulcans. as near as I can tell the Vulcanians are a
decadent race. hiding and running from their emotions. living such a
cerebrial existance that they wouldn't accomplish anything w/out the
humans spurring them on. a race much older than the humans that has only
managed to achieve technological parity w/ the humans. and while the
brain and other parts of the vulcan are far superior to mans.
psychologicly man seems vastly superior--afterall if emotion were a
negative trait why is it that only the higher forms of life display it,
and why is it more readily displayed the higher the level of evolution.
Lets face it netters we may live in a computer ergo logical environment
but emotion is a very powerful problem solving tool - if Vulcans shun it,
how bright can they be.
Well, that's it my final posting comes to a close: I have my beefs but, like I
said it was a lot of fun. if anyone want's to touch baces on any of this stuff
I'd love to here from you--flame or flattery. but don't use my userid it won't
get to me. My mailing address is:
Kevin M. O'Boyle
242 Crestmont Rd
State College, PA Phone(814)234-5823
16801
if you must use email send to WJT@PSUVM.BITNET
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