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Philosophy in Space: We Hold This Fiction to Be True Star Trek
After all the adversities that we’ve encountered in our travels, the greatest adversary, it turns out, is ourselves–our capacity for the best and the worst. We still have much to learn about what’s up there, and what’s in here.
Thus says Captain Kirk, gesturing to his heart at the end. This is in the final episode of Star Trek Continues. I say THIS IS TRUE STAR TREK. This is Star Trek fiction the way it oughta be, even if the copyright holders don’t count STC as part of their canon. This is true Star Trek because it is PHILOSOPHY IN SPACE.
The point of Star Trek was never the cool spaceships, although they were cool. The point was to imitate Immanuel Kant and explore “the starry skies above and the moral law within”–to explore the universe while also exploring what it means to be human.
Star Trek, like Existentialism, is a humanism, even if I did say so myself.
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“We have met the enemy, and he is us?” I always thought that was self-serving, navel-gazing drivel.
Let’s first review who said that. My brain suggests Chesterton. Was it Chesterton?
Doesn’t really matter to me if it was Chesterton, or Pogo.
If it was Chesterton, it was piety and penitence and humility. Not seeing how that’s self-serving.
Perhaps appropriate for religion then, but not much else. Sorry I just don’t buy it.
A good start!
In the last year, was the greater adversary some coronavirus, or was it human folly?
One – just one – of the problems you run into with that method, is that maybe YOU believe it, but your opposition doesn’t. They can easily use that against you, and easily win.
You’ve lost me. What are you talking about–rhetoric?
I was talking about the facts. We can get to rhetoric after we get to the truth, can’t we?
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This conversation is part of our Group Writing Series under the July 2021 Group Writing Theme: “We Hold These Truths (or Fictions).” Stop by to sign up for the August theme: “A day in the life.”
Interested in Group Writing topics that came before? See the handy compendium of monthly themes. Check out links in the Group Writing Group. You can also join the group to get a notification when a new monthly theme is posted.