“Star Wars“It has always been a series of fantasy wrapped in science fiction cosplay. For all spacecraft, robots and laser beams of Planet, Galaxy of George Lucas, distant, distant is both on magic and the people who handle it as” the lord of the rings “and” Harry Potter “. Mumbo, Mumbo “.
Star Trek is different; James T Kirk science fiction trips, Jean-Luc Picard and his successors on the final border are much more likely to be backed by science or, at least, the version of the franchise of it. Technology, paraphrasing Arthur C Clarke, can be so advanced that it is more or less indistinguishable from magic, but trip faster than lightteleportation, and Even Greek deities They have been given explanations that would not seem out of place in a physical textbook of the 21st century.
However, things get weird when the lines between science fiction and fantasy begin to blur. The use of microorganisms to justify force would have felt completely appropriate in the preparation room of the company-D, but the notion of mid-chlorian bottles in “Star Wars”, a scenario where science rarely looks.
On the other hand, the issues of destiny, telepathy and ancient battles between good and evil explored in “Strange new worlds“Final of season 3” New Life and New Civilizations “are directly from Luke Skywalker’s Timonera. So,” Star Trek “is now as a fantasy franchise as a science fiction?
This is an excellent episode at many levels. Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scofano) had been living with a time borrowed since she became an involuntary host for Waste Embryo in “Hegemony“. This end completed its arc in a much more satisfactory way than to lead the legal stellar fleet.
Instead, we learn that, thanks to the fact that the cause and effect are beyond the penalty in Vadia IX, protecting the galaxy from the deeply unpleasant Time Aliens It has always been his call. In a wonderful sequence of “life in five minutes” (reminiscent of the classic episode “The Next Generation” “The Inner Light”), she can even show her boyfriend Christopher Pike the future they could have had if their lives had come out differently. It is “Star Trek” in its most heartbreaking form.
But the big songs here are extracted from the fantasy play book. The creature that possessed the unfortunate factory of Ensign finds a path back from its damping exile of permanent transporters, and can exert an evil influence on a completely new generation of followers. The new and an incorrect spooky ‘UNS, at the same time, given a spectacular introduction a few weeks ago, are subsequently established as the background history for each myth about evil in the alpha quadrant.
Meanwhile, Batel’s trip to become the viewer (the mystical statue that lives a double life as the prison guard) is involved as an consummated fact; His encounter with the treatments with Gorn and later that alter the DNA (ILIRIO blood, Groove of chimera) All part of the great plan of the universe.
And in orbit, the company also covers the fantasy atmosphere, deploying a vulcan mentality to make Spock and Kirk Pilaten the company and Farragut, respectively, to the telepathic unison. If you can think of a better way to make two ships shooting their phasers with a perfect synchronicity next time you I need to open a portal to Vadia IX, we would like to listen to it.
That is this episode, and possibly “Star Trek”, in a nutshell. “Trek” has rarely scared to venture in fantasy territory when necessary (or wants); It has simply been very good to dress things with Tachyon’s pulses (magical spells?) And non -bodily life forms (ghosts?) When it does.
In most other franchises, for example, the “mysticism” vulcan (the mind is combined, the katras and the like) or betazoid telepathy would be described as witchcraft. Klingon Time crystal that gave Pike a premonition of his tragic fate could sit happily on a chimney shell in Hogwarts. And Borg would be easy to rule out as pure evil in the Sauron style if he did not stop to consider his ideology “assimilate this.”
As for the gods, the “Star Trek” galaxy is dragging with them, either Q, which makes its way through the past of Picard, the future and the future or the aliens of the hole hole of “deep space” using their non -linear perception of time to deliver the prophecies (although cryptic). “The Next Generation” even provided the “Trek” version of a myth of creation, when “The Chase” revealed that humans, cardassians, vulcans, Romulanos and Klingons resemble those that were generated by a single progenitor species, A theme reviewed in the fifth and final season of “Discovery”. Whether they, and the time, are deities or simply very, very, very old extraterrestrials is a matter of semantics.
As is that line between science fiction and fantasy. Because the sonic screwdriver of “Doctor Who” is effectively a magical wand disguised as a different name, “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” are not as separated as appearances would suggest: it is only that the officers of the stellar fleet are a bit better to show their science fiction credentials than the Jedi.
Each episode of season 3 “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is now available in Paramount+.
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