@KC8YOQ: In Star Trek, the gods are always oppressive & enslave the people. But that is irrelevant, the issue is the Prime Directive nonsense. It is treated as some grand ideal & yet when it comes to the subject of religion it doesn't apply. The basis of the word culture is CULT. Religion has always been historic basis of every culture. They are destroying the very foundation of their culture. This makes the Prime Directive hypocritical nonsense. It is certainly a major flaw in the series.
This is one of the Promethean episodes of the original series which always gall me. In Star Trek, we here all this pompous pieties about not interferring in native cultures. Yet, whenever Capt. Kirk encounters a native religion, he always immediately begins trying to kill whatever they regard as their god. What more profound an interferance in a culture can occur then to kill its god?
Let us never forget the redshirts that died of venomous plant spores to the chest, being struck by lightning, stepping on an exploding rock, and taking a club to the head from the natives on this planet.
...Man, the job of "USS Enterprise Security Officer" must have one of the highest turnover rates in the Federation.
1:07 papier macie right ahead ^o^
blajsad 5 days ago
The enterprise was caught in a decaying orbit by Vaal. In this case, it was either kill Vaal or lose the ship.
BlackOmega9 3 months ago
@KC8YOQ: In Star Trek, the gods are always oppressive & enslave the people. But that is irrelevant, the issue is the Prime Directive nonsense. It is treated as some grand ideal & yet when it comes to the subject of religion it doesn't apply. The basis of the word culture is CULT. Religion has always been historic basis of every culture. They are destroying the very foundation of their culture. This makes the Prime Directive hypocritical nonsense. It is certainly a major flaw in the series.
VictorLepanto 5 months ago
@VictorLepanto In this case the "God" was keeping them as pets/slaves!!
KC8YOQ 5 months ago
This is one of the Promethean episodes of the original series which always gall me. In Star Trek, we here all this pompous pieties about not interferring in native cultures. Yet, whenever Capt. Kirk encounters a native religion, he always immediately begins trying to kill whatever they regard as their god. What more profound an interferance in a culture can occur then to kill its god?
VictorLepanto 7 months ago
why did they do that?.....
planthi80 8 months ago
@planthi80 I think they did...
MyLifeWrittenScript 9 months ago
can anyone tell me if paramount sold out star trek to CBS?
planthi80 1 year ago
Let us never forget the redshirts that died of venomous plant spores to the chest, being struck by lightning, stepping on an exploding rock, and taking a club to the head from the natives on this planet.
...Man, the job of "USS Enterprise Security Officer" must have one of the highest turnover rates in the Federation.
thediremoose 1 year ago 2
in the original version the sky was orange.
saml760 1 year ago