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The Philosophy of Star Trek

submitted by darkrowan

8 years 1 month 1 week ago

Star Trek

This does not paint Star Trek as the utopia it want's to paint itself, but it is an hour long critical look at all races/factions in the Star Trek universe, along with a brief history lesson as well.

4 Comments

I didn't agree with everything, but this is a *quality essay that uses its *scifi narrative to reflect on the *philosophy (and a smidgen of *history) of the modern world.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by notarobot.

Adding video to channels (History, Philosophy, Scifi) - requested by notarobot.

I like it, I just can't get over the MANY mispronunciations. I have such a hard time taking "eagle-tarians" seriously. I don't hear any specific accents that lead me to believe English isn't the Narrator's first language... I just get the feeling that the Narrator only knows english from reading it, not from hearing it spoken.

Despite my pedantry getting in the way, I still like it. The narrator doesn't try to say "Everything is great" or "Everything is terrible"... mainly pointing out how the Star Trek canon is a tapestry of many different, real-world philosophies. Nothing ground-breaking or eye-opening, and it could be 30 minutes, but still good.

Moving this video to darkrowan's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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