Kirk walked up to the mountain. He had never seen something so beautiful, so grand, so large and massive. His breath sharpened as he approached the behemoth, and he pressed his body against it.He caressed it and whispered to it, "Kirk loves the mountain".
Ok I'll stop. Star Trek was awesome, I've never seen it before. I remember having this little blue light with the Enterpise logo on in or something from a cereal box when I was little but that's the only exposure.
The allegory to the proxy wars in southern asia were so subtle, and by that I mean they weren't subtle at all. Poor Tyree (?), he's gonna watch all his friends die now. But now that he has weapons at least his tribe wont bet massacred. I mean, he could either be wiped out all at once, or he couuld watch his village turn more militant and then watch little kids die off in the battle field. I doubt everyne will just put down their weapons, bc why put the down when you can rule the world?
Speaking of world ruling, Nona basically ruled the colony through pupetting tyree. I dont know how many other women of her species there were, and I wonder if everyone in that species also did that. Like a species that went around controlling villages from the shadows.
Nona is a--what did they call her?--Kan-uh-tu, I think. Witch woman. She calls it a "tribe." I wonder if it's inherited or learned, though? What do you think about her means to power? (Because I agree, it's puppetry--sometimes grossly literal puppetry, when she uses those herbs.)
ReplyDeleteI was actually very surprised by all the sexual violence in this episode.
As for Tyree, I wonder--which are you suggesting is worse? Slowly dying off in decades of fighting or being massacred all at once?