i've been neglecting my blog a little bit...
i need some time to readjust to a working man's schedule.
anyways... star trek.
[personal log, stardate 11403]
when i was home in tacoma for the holidays, i went on a church retreat with the college/young-adult group. the guest speaker was pastor seung-chan rah from boston. he spoke about community. specifically: building a community in our post-modern era and in the context of asian american churches. he gave a great analogy of post-modernism as represented in star trek. here's the part that i can relate to the best:
the original star trek (the one with captain kirk and "beam me up, scotty") manifests alot of the ideals of modernism, where TNG (the next generation, with the bald picard and an on-board psychiatrist, dianna troy) displays post-modern themes. let's focus on just one character from each series. from the original, the most intriguing character is Mr. Spock (an inter-species half-vulcan/half-human). throughout the span of his character development, spock's vulcan half is constantly trying to supress his "emotional" and "illogical" human side. to him-- as well as my parents and alot of their generation-- things are black and white... issues can be reasoned out... logic rules and emotions just get in the way. (on a personal note, i grew up and today still conform to that kind of attitude in many aspects of my thought-process. i'm good at detaching my reason with my feelings and i'm a pro at being narrow in my opinions because i believe i've come to them in the most rational--and therefore, flawless-- way. i come off as arrogant to alot of people because this. i'm working on it. be patient with me.)
mr. spock is contrasted on TNG by Lieutenant Commander Data (day-duh, not dah-duh). Data-- if you don't know-- is an android, a walking computer, completely devoid of emotion. yet his personal mission is to experience that which his nanochips and circuits can't process: humor, sadness, goosebumps, fear... love. in response to the older generation (the baby-boomers and grayer), we gen-x-y-and-z-ers choose put more of an emphasis on passion and intuition than on our ability to rationally analyze our circumstances.
data is my long-lost cousin.
[end log]
i need some time to readjust to a working man's schedule.
anyways... star trek.
[personal log, stardate 11403]
when i was home in tacoma for the holidays, i went on a church retreat with the college/young-adult group. the guest speaker was pastor seung-chan rah from boston. he spoke about community. specifically: building a community in our post-modern era and in the context of asian american churches. he gave a great analogy of post-modernism as represented in star trek. here's the part that i can relate to the best:
the original star trek (the one with captain kirk and "beam me up, scotty") manifests alot of the ideals of modernism, where TNG (the next generation, with the bald picard and an on-board psychiatrist, dianna troy) displays post-modern themes. let's focus on just one character from each series. from the original, the most intriguing character is Mr. Spock (an inter-species half-vulcan/half-human). throughout the span of his character development, spock's vulcan half is constantly trying to supress his "emotional" and "illogical" human side. to him-- as well as my parents and alot of their generation-- things are black and white... issues can be reasoned out... logic rules and emotions just get in the way. (on a personal note, i grew up and today still conform to that kind of attitude in many aspects of my thought-process. i'm good at detaching my reason with my feelings and i'm a pro at being narrow in my opinions because i believe i've come to them in the most rational--and therefore, flawless-- way. i come off as arrogant to alot of people because this. i'm working on it. be patient with me.)
mr. spock is contrasted on TNG by Lieutenant Commander Data (day-duh, not dah-duh). Data-- if you don't know-- is an android, a walking computer, completely devoid of emotion. yet his personal mission is to experience that which his nanochips and circuits can't process: humor, sadness, goosebumps, fear... love. in response to the older generation (the baby-boomers and grayer), we gen-x-y-and-z-ers choose put more of an emphasis on passion and intuition than on our ability to rationally analyze our circumstances.
data is my long-lost cousin.
[end log]
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