I've only seen snippets of the animated shows on youtube in a few commentary videos. If it was on somewhere, it would be interesting to see.
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The Star Treks
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Cbs is holding it hostage. They'll eventually take all the series off Netflix.
Agree...good stories. I bought the DVD set awhile ago.
Amazon Prime was streaming these; just checked, now it sez "free" with a CBS All Access subscription.
...thanks for clearing up Yesterday's Enterprise.
Glad, too, that I am not alone on Picard & Crusher in Chain Of Command.
I just watched the TNG episode Homeward from the 7th season and it just reinforced my discomfort with some aspects of the "Prime Directive".
The plot revolves around a planet that is becoming uninhabitable due to the dissipation of its atmosphere. A preindustrial race of humanoid people live there and all of them have died out except for a single village that has been kept alive in an underground shelter with advanced technology life support provided by a Federation citizen, who happens to be Worf's foster brother, Nikolai Rozhenko.
Captain Picard is outraged that Nikolai has taken it upon himself to associate with the villagers and particularly to save them from extinction because it's a violation of the Prime Directive to interfere in any way with indigenous peoples who haven't yet developed warp drive capable technology.
The problem I have with this episode is how every officer on the Enterprise from Picard to Riker to Worf and others so emphatically condemns Nikolai for "interfering" with the planet's inhabitants by saving them from certain extinction. Picard explicitly lectures Nikolai about how following the strict letter of the law of the Prime Directive is necessary to avoid causing unintentional harm to indigenous peoples. According to the captain, the only morally correct decision is to stand by and watch as an entire population dies out from a planet wide catastrophe. Saving them and transporting them to another planet would harm them by potentially exposing them to knowledge that there are advanced civilizations in space.
I kept waiting for Picard or Worf or somebody to come to their senses and realize the absurdity of their interpretation of the Prime Directive, but that never happened. Nikolai makes several attempts to make his case that the only morally correct action is to save the villagers from death first and then try to mitigate the "harm" to their culture after they've been successfully relocated to another planet.
The episode ends with Nikolai permanently remaining with the villagers on their new planet after he gets chewed out by Worf, even though the brothers part on good terms.
What puzzles me is the fact that Picard and his officers have already been willing to break the rules and even disobey the Prime Directive in other episodes when it's clearly the right thing to do. But, for some reason, not this time, under circumstances that are obviously right for an exception.
The plot revolves around a planet that is becoming uninhabitable due to the dissipation of its atmosphere. A preindustrial race of humanoid people live there and all of them have died out except for a single village that has been kept alive in an underground shelter with advanced technology life support provided by a Federation citizen, who happens to be Worf's foster brother, Nikolai Rozhenko.
Captain Picard is outraged that Nikolai has taken it upon himself to associate with the villagers and particularly to save them from extinction because it's a violation of the Prime Directive to interfere in any way with indigenous peoples who haven't yet developed warp drive capable technology.
The problem I have with this episode is how every officer on the Enterprise from Picard to Riker to Worf and others so emphatically condemns Nikolai for "interfering" with the planet's inhabitants by saving them from certain extinction. Picard explicitly lectures Nikolai about how following the strict letter of the law of the Prime Directive is necessary to avoid causing unintentional harm to indigenous peoples. According to the captain, the only morally correct decision is to stand by and watch as an entire population dies out from a planet wide catastrophe. Saving them and transporting them to another planet would harm them by potentially exposing them to knowledge that there are advanced civilizations in space.
I kept waiting for Picard or Worf or somebody to come to their senses and realize the absurdity of their interpretation of the Prime Directive, but that never happened. Nikolai makes several attempts to make his case that the only morally correct action is to save the villagers from death first and then try to mitigate the "harm" to their culture after they've been successfully relocated to another planet.
The episode ends with Nikolai permanently remaining with the villagers on their new planet after he gets chewed out by Worf, even though the brothers part on good terms.
What puzzles me is the fact that Picard and his officers have already been willing to break the rules and even disobey the Prime Directive in other episodes when it's clearly the right thing to do. But, for some reason, not this time, under circumstances that are obviously right for an exception.
It's always been a problematic idea. As I understand it, it's "we can't deal with these people because it can interfere with their evolution. Natural selection might not be in their favor and we can't let ourselves change that." So unless people on a planet know about aliens or have warp capable travel, the Federation should let them die out if they were gonna die anyway. But then someone gets involved and no one follows any rules.
One of the best third season episodes, (and in the top third overall) It probably would have been even better if it had been produced in the second season.
There's this Over-The-Air Channel called HandI...they play Star Trek episodes Sun-Fri.
I flip through last night & there is Next Generation episode that I had never seen.
It's a Season 7 epi called "Masks".
Nice how they wrapped everything up in the last 30 seconds.
I flip through last night & there is Next Generation episode that I had never seen.
It's a Season 7 epi called "Masks".
Nice how they wrapped everything up in the last 30 seconds.
There's this Over-The-Air Channel called HandI...they play Star Trek episodes Sun-Fri.
I flip through last night & there is Next Generation episode that I had never seen.
It's a Season 7 epi called "Masks".
Nice how they wrapped everything up in the last 30 seconds.
That was some amazing acting on the part of Brent Spiner, he"s such a gifted artist. "Masaka is waking!"
TNG tended to do that too much for my tastes.Nice how they wrapped everything up in the last 30 seconds.
The Animated Series did some cool stuff they couldn't do with live action. Non humanoid aliens and a holodeck and all kinds of wacky space stuff that they could do cuz it was animated.
The quality of the animation did leave a bit to be desired--but then so did most animation for TV that I have seen from that tie period (Reruns are fun)
Yeah...Did you ever see the original Spider-Man series?.....Crude but I loved it as a kid
