"Captain Kirk and the Art of Rule" Topic

Old and a Little long Reading… but still quite interesting….

"Star Trek is the only television show to have directly posed the question: "What is the Good?"[1] Over the course of seventy-nine episodes, this question and related Socratic inquiries were pursued. Star Trek paid generous homage to the philosophic and religious traditions that make up the Western dialectic. A sampling of some of the episode titles reveals the extent to which the series acknowledged both Jerusalem and Athens. There is "The Apple," "Journey to Babel," "The Way to Eden," and "A Taste of Armageddon," along with "Plato's Stepchildren" (initially to have been titled "The Sons of Socrates"), "Who Mourns for Adonais?," "Bread and Circuses," and my favorite title "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"

Because the show employed a number of writers and directors over its three-year run, interpretation is made more difficult. There is not the same consistency of vision that one expects when dealing with a single author. Nonetheless, the guiding presence of the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, really did give the series a particular stamp. Certain themes emerge as fundamental. Uniquely among television shows, Star Trek began each episode with a spoken invocation. For those of you who don't have it ingrained in memory, it goes as follows…."
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The Star Trek Episodes That Define Captain Kirk

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