Star Trek Embraces Religion As Enterprise’s Captain Starts Praying, And It’s Rational

Written by Joshua Tyler to update 11 seconds ago

Star Trek has always had a complex and changing relationship with religion. This week, a complete circle came when the leader of the institution fell on his knees and began reading the prayer of the Lord in Star Trek: strange new worlds The first offer for season 3.

The fans of the latest journey that were exposed to the only concession was secular extremism for Star Trek: discovery Maybe you were shocked, but Trekkies should not have long been.

Modern pop culture is treated as ancient, as if it were atheist, but this is completely incorrect. This idea comes from a line uttered by Captain Picard in Star Trek: The next generation The episode “Who Watch Observers”.

Speaking of the state of humanity in the future, Picard makes railways in myths. It is the pressure in favor of rational thinking, instead.

Jin Rodenberry was an inch of a tree -off atheist. However, when Star Trek She first appeared on TV in the 1960s, 90 % of the American population was Christian, and an atheist TV program was impossible. If possible, it is doubtful that Rodenberry would have done anything different. His novel from Trek is designed to make people think, not telling them what they think about.

I avoided these early trip episodes in general, to address faith in God directly; However, the little that we know about the beliefs of Captain Kerk as a character suggests, at least at the time, was written as a believer in Christ.

In the second season episode entitled “Who Mount for Adonis”, when he faces a Greek god, Kirk says, “Humanity is not a need for the gods. We find the right person.”

Read this line very quickly, and you may think Kirk says that humans do not need God anymore, but the combined form of the word is the key. The line is in fact the statement of faith in this type of Christian practice.

When he faces an object he claims to be Jehovah himself Star Trek V: The Final LimitsJames T Kirk is open to the possibility but is also ready to question its validity. When this does not retreat to the person shown in the Christian Bible, Kirk faces lightning anger to ask, “What does God need with a heroism?”

Kirk was written as rational and skeptical first. Whatever other beliefs he carried from that. He was rational, moderate and perhaps Christian as well.

And if Star Treke has an official debt, this is what it is. Rationality. Not atheism.

Although Captain Picard and the upcoming generation crew were atheists in their views, he was also rooted in the methodology of rationality.

Things were completely different in the series that followed Next generationand Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Religion is the main question about that entire series, which focuses on a planet full of believers and the Captain of Star Trek, Ben Sisco, who may be a god himself.

SISKO follows a rational approach to its divinity, resisting worshipers and focusing on completing matters through logical thinking. His first officer in Baguran, Keira Nairris, however, is based on her entire life on religious belief. Several episodes were spent on the offer in their follow -up while praying in temples and communicating with the priests.

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There is nothing rational about Keira, but what is rational respects and supports her right to believe things that provide a positive framework that builds her life on her. Without her faith, after her horror life, Keira was collapsing.

The Union insists on calling the gods that Keira believes in foreigners, but in behavior and strength, it is commensurate with the definition of God and any being. Dean Keira and the gods you worship are real like the nose on your face.

Who says Christopher Pike is not?

The new atheists movement, which helped in its nomination in the previous and most naive days as a journalist online, argued that God’s existence cannot be proven. Therefore, it does not make sense to believe in it. Star Trek has always argued that although God’s existence (unless Baguran) cannot be proven, he could not enter it.

In the end, the Star Trek’s view may be the most rational approach. One encourages people to embrace any more beneficial ideas for their well -being, whether it is atheism, faith or anything else.

In the sixties of the last century, Star Trek was a moderate Christian program, rooted in the best versions of those values.

In the eighties of the last century, with continued atheism as a movement, examining how the future could be without religion.

In the nineties of the twentieth century, Star Trek preached tolerance and coexistence between believers and non -believers, and mutual respect for each other beliefs or lack of faith.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the concession deviated towards secular fundamentalism and rejected faith in favor of good and emotional emotional feelings.

Now we are here again, in the conversion of the tide, with the establishment of the founder’s leader his father’s religion and turns into God in a moment of fear and despair.

For Star Trek, it is a return to rational consistency shortly after madness. It is a sign that the times are changing. The new atheist movement that emptied the churches weakens.

Some atheists, like me, who pushed an atheist world, began to admit that it may have not been a good idea. Others, like me, assumed that if people only apply Volcan’s cold logic to reality, things will improve.

It is a kind of classic mistake that Spok has made. He failed to observe the human factor and it is assumed that all people are able to be logical. This opinion is not rational. With age and experience, the world knows that many cannot apply strict thinking intellectually. Trying to force her by washing the brain on the media has only led to a cultural catastrophe.

I do not need or want God to relieve my behavior or direct my path, but many of them do so. If this is you, you are in a good company because Captain Pike does it too.

The future of humanity is one of the endless possibilities. Star Trek at its best when looking at all, with a rational approach to the future of infinite capabilities in endless groups