I bet you could make a cut of it that was a strong 60 minute TOS episode.

He must have picked up a lot of rads.

Well, there’s a big difference between ‘a god’ and ‘The God’ :)

They came up a lot in Enterprise, I thought? Not that I really watched Enterprise much. But I did feel like the characterization of aliens outside the Federation, the Klingons, Romulans, and Ferengi, often came at the expense of those within, who were mostly like humans in their values.

Yeah, the people of Star Trek rejected the notion that you should accept a powerful being’s claims and morality without question, because that being is powerful.

It does help that you basically cast a guy that looks exactly the same no matter how old he is.

And he also doesn’t view it as much of a handicap, turning down a variety of opportunities to have it corrected.

Huh. I guess not? I watched TOS when it was syndicated on Saturdays afternoons, so I feel like I missed a few from time to time.

That’s true... I think for me, the Vulcans always gave off this disappointed parent vibe. Which I can kind of get... they’re basically dealing with aliens that are basically acting like children to them all the time. It must be exhausting. I kind of wish more cultures within the Fed got the kind of story time that the…

Though who would have thought this guy would turn into this guy

It was far from my favorite, but I have to love that line. Also, look at Spock, tilting his head in the back like “Yeah, that’s a great point.”

I have a list of ten things, and it just says ‘Garak’ for all of them.

There were a lot of ‘spiritual, not religious’ people and species too. The Vulcans being the primary example... they spent a lot of time meditating and have special powers and rituals, but they are also unusually skeptical.

Putting religion not just on the sidelines, but making it a frequent source of conflict and skepticism hit me pretty hard as a kid. Certainly other shows have picked it up and run with it, Babylon 5 being a good example, but no one ever put it quite as succinctly as Star Trek.

Surprised, no? Disappointed, sure.

I think it was released in some theaters at the same time as it came out on HBO. Honestly, most documentaries don’t get a particularly wide theater release these days.

I’d read the book, so it wasn’t too much I’d already heard, but it was definitely interesting to see all the weird Scientology speeches and events. But it was still a great documentary for people who’ve only heard a little bit about the various abuses and oddities that Scientology perpetrated over the years, or just…

In a perfect world, yeah, you’d be able to measure both.

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Vote against that, assholes.