Days 12-14 in my continued copy/paste expansion of #threadtrek from September.
Day 12 : Struggles in Communication
Star Trek explored MANY times the importance of communication.
In TNG Loud as a Whisper, Picard has to calm down Riva after he looses key elements in his manner of communication - and which could cost very important negotiations.
Howie Seago, who is deaf and plays Riva, petitioned the producers to create a show about deaf people to help dispel untrue and prejudiced myths about them.
Non humanoid forms can have... odd conversations with humans. Case and point in TNG Home soil.
Data's pointing out that humans are 90% water surrounded by a flexible container is actually a gross exaggeration, as modern science finds range of 45-78% and the highest % going to babies. I'm not sure if the 90% was the estimate back in 1988, when this episode aired, but either way, we can keep the bags of water, and not retain Data's statement.
" a simple hesitation!" that moment when O'brien and then most of DS9's habitants can't talk anymore is epic - in Deep Space 9's Babel.
The Borg, introduced in TNG, again in Voyager where they are prominent for quite some time, and re-introduction in the prequel Enterprise, as well as some of the movies are all connected by a massive way that puts WiFi to shame : they are all linked via a hive mind, and form the Collective. This means can be used over huge distances, for controlling and coordinating between Drones...
The trill are an example of inner communication. They are a merge of sorts between a humanoid host (as far as we saw) and a... worm.. I meant a symbiont. A break down in their communication can be... dangerous.
A probe can send someone to ... somewhere... and communicate very differently than by a skype-like conversation... check out TNG's excellent Inner Light.
Last example (out of the many more possible, really)
What happens when you're stranded and don't speak the same ... language...ish ?
another TNG excellence, Darmok.
Great was when when story ...
Day 13 : Man V Nature
For this one I think I'll discuss TOS This side of paradise.
Where humans land on a planet with deadly radiation, but, against all odds, are found alive when the Enterprise arrives...They adapted, thanx to nature... after having been a in a VS situation.
However, this is also a very tragic episode, if you can guess from this
(or have you actually seen it ?)
Day 14 : Maquis
Much like WW2 rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called maquisards, Star Trek's Maquis are a group of resistance, of Federation citizens , who, after refusing to leave their homes after their planets were ceded to Cardassia, fight against their opressors, and against Starfleet orders. They feel the treaties unjust and don't wish to leave their homes - even if it means waging an illegal guerilla fare - and having to face both Federation and the Cardasians.
So, on one hand, we have people who decide to stay despite orders to evacuate and avoid war... on the other, we have one of the worst tyrants, who of course retaliates against them and thus is born a resistance...
On the other, we have a very uneven storytelling. Some of the acting and decisions in characters being members sometimes defy ... logic. The stories about the maquis have a lot of ups and downs, stretching from TNG, to DS9 to Voyager.
I won't show faces, but... emblem looks similar to Star Wars rebels.
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