When I was younger I liked looking up at the stars and wonder what all is out there. Here on Earth, there is so much of a connection between different countries all around the world that we consider our planet a global village. The opposite side of the world is closer to us than we know it by using a phone or web chatting. I have never watched an episode or movie of Star Trek in my life but I'm familiar with the idea of it. I have, on the other hand, seen Star Wars and I can relate the two of them with the idea of this "galactic village". Likewise in this film and the Star Wars films that I've seen, there are numerous groups of beings from different planets that all seem to be connected. In Star Wars there is a republic and empire that look over many planets. From the film in Star Trek there is a federation. These films look into the idea that there can be a union and organization among planets in the universe.
I thought while watching Star Trek that these people from different worlds could be humans from Earth that gathered the ability to space travel. For the movie it was right for them to speak English but them to be descendants of humans of Earth may be a possibility. It could be cool to imagine that humans could travel to different areas of outer space. The federation in the film could be to me is like government here on Earth to look over planets colonized by humans. Watching films like this brings optimism that humanity can find suitable planets to live on and continue to thrive.
The society on Earth different groups will collide. Violence around the world typically involve multiple groups with different identities. The same is shown in Star Trek. In the film there is two groups mentioned: the Ba'ku and the Son'a. When watching the film I thought of the Ba'ku as human descendants that colonized there and the Son'a as a different type of being. As the film went on you learn that they are the same groups but the Son'a were a rebellious group that broke away. The conflict between these two groups can be related to Earth. The nearest case could be civil wars with different groups but still sharing similar ancestry. This is the case in the film. The conflict turns out to be a civil conflict between the elders and their youth.
Along with Star Wars, these films bring about the idea of a larger society bigger than our planet itself. From before there are the positives of suitable land for us but the negative of the nature of beings disagreeing and continuously having conflict. Personally I would love to be able to travel to different planets like the guys on the Enterprise. It would be similar to visiting different countries on Earth. Far into the future there very well could be a ''galactic village" somewhere in the universe.
Interesting read for your blog this week! I like the concept of wondering whether the small group that is living on the planet could be human. However, I believe that they are not some type of humans because of one particular scene when Picard and lady on the planet. She holds on to Picard and everything around them slows down in speed. The humming bird moves very slow, etc. This scene for me was the deciding factor that they are not humans, but that they are human like people from a different planet. It also opens the question of what other powers do they have? Does is come from the planet as well just like their ability to never age?
ReplyDeleteTo me this movie is a mirror of our society. The Son'a leader wants to relocated 600 Ba'ku people because they have the regenerative radiation. This is the same reason that people have wars for food, water, resource and power over thousands of human history.
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