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Probably a rather geeky thing to say but Star Trek TNG promoted honesty, morality and a strong sense of ethics to me. That IMHO is no different to classic mora
by pling 12y ago
Probably a rather geeky thing to say but Star Trek TNG promoted honesty, morality and a strong sense of ethics to me.
That IMHO is no different to classic moral stories as the basic premise is the same in some episodes.
- bane 12y agoWhat's also been interesting to me is the more recent sci-fi shows like Battlestar Galactica or Stargate:Universe that try and set up a Star Trek like moral dilemma, and you know exactly what a Star Trek TNG captain would do, and the writers will cause the Captain to take the opposite moral choice, often for good reasons. It's a bit like the TNG ethics are being used as an ethical framework to bounce modern issues off of and continue the cause of sci-fi as social commentary, but in a sense the commentary is the upright TNG style morals and how desperate circumstances might make it difficult to uphold those values.
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- new_test 12y agoYes, it is a rather geeky thing to say.
- rayiner 12y agoThis is a wonderful point. Star Trek, particularly TNG, has always had some very strongly moral characters. Picard, obviously, but also Sisko in DS9.
- thret 12y agoWhy did you elevate Picard and Sisko morally over Kirk or Janeway? Actually all officers on Star Trek seem to be of high moral character, I can't think of one who isn't.
- webwielder 12y agoBoth Kirk and Janeway were much less by-the-book. They had no compunction against violating the prime directive, making unscrupulous alliances, seducing young ensigns, or reading the Constitution to a planet of Nazis (or something like that) if they felt it furthered their (usually noble if misguided) goals.
- thret 12y agoI don't want to start a Trek debate on HN :) Alliances wrt Janeway are certainly questionable, but for both where they did deviate from the book it was always as you say for noble reasons. Breaking an unjust law is not morally wrong. Snowden broke laws for noble reasons. Is he a moral character? I think so.
- philwelch 12y agoSisko makes a number of morally questionable decisions, most especially in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight".
- stretchwithme 12y agoAgreed.
- naturalethic 12y agoUltima IV started my moral trek.