Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
May 15th, 2005
I am, by no definition of the word, a “Trekkie”–I’ve never sat through an entire episode of either Voyager or Enterprise, and I lost interest in Deep Space Nine after its first season. I’ve often found the original Star Trek with Captain Kirk and Mister Spock to be completely ludicrous most of the time, and often an insult to a true sci-fi fan’s intelligence. But Star Trek: The Next Generation has always had a very dear place in my heart, because ST:TNG was so often beautifully written, highly intelligent, and comprised an ensemble cast featuring some of my favorite actors of all time: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Whoopie Goldberg, Brent Spiner, and so forth. Of all the Trek series, The Next Generation is the only one that consistently delivered great stories that dealt with serious topics such as, for instance, communication difficulties between human and nonhuman cultures, in a very intelligent and often enlightening fashion.
The greatest example of this is one of the bestknown TNG episodes ever: “Darmok.” Never before and never since has televised sci-fi ever dealt with communication difficulties better. To read my analysis of the episode, scoot on over to Page Numba 2….
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