ENGL-3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: James T. Kirk, Captain Pipe, Utopia
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Roddenberry first pilot was rejected, it was originally going to be set in the rome. Kirk is playing a heroic role instead of a satanic one. We cant conceptualize it so we have to give them a face. They only have one sort of function. The vaal only has one objective: they apply some sort of opaqueness, steals a communist behaviour then sell the people as heat breaking shit, it"s all wrong for kirk and mccoy, best case of social utopia. And still it is horrible under the eyes of american"s lifestyle. Must be destroyed in the name of the human raise. Wants to think about the danger of the place. More than anything else, the absence of sex is the problem. Its hard to say most of our tangible things exist in digital forms. Every year has a new layer of complexity. The big anxiety of star trek was that the computer had too much power.
