Star Trek: Discovery
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InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 6 , " Whistlespeak " , written by Kenneth Lin and Brandon Schultz , and directed by Chris Byrne , Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) go against Starfleet ’s Prime Directive in a fashion that ’s good than Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) did inStar Trek : The Next coevals . The USS Discovery ’s next stop inStar Trek : Discovery ’s hoarded wealth huntis Halem’no , where a pre - warp society revere Denobulan scientist Hitoroshi Kreel ’s camouflage weather - regulating towers religiously . The 800 - twelvemonth - old pillar are flush it due to disrepair , and the Halem’nites are responding by sacrifice hoi polloi , include Lt . Sylvia Tilly ( Mary Wiseman ) , so Burnham block the sacrifice and explain the rainmaking technology is n’t divine .
InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 3 , episode 4 , " Who watch over the Watchers " , the USS Enterprise - D crew resupplies the researchers observing the pre - warp society on Mintaka III from behind a holographic " duck’s egg blind " . An stroke at the inquiry station cause the failure of the holograph and injure Liko ( Ray Wise ) , a Mintakan civilian who stag the scientists . After Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) resuscitate Liko on the go-ahead , Liko returns to his small town , proclaiming to be heal by an ancient Mintakan god , and the god ’s name is"the Picard" . Picard ’s solvent is to deny not only his own divinity , but the world of any graven image at all .
Captain Burnham must break the Prime Directive to relieve Tilly and find the Progenitors ' next clue in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , episode 6 .
Captain Burnham Validates The Halem’nites In Star Trek: Discovery Season 5
Captain Picard’s Philosophy in TNG Matches Roddenberry’s Vision, But Is That Okay?
After making a witting decision to violateStarfleet ’s Prime Directiveof non - hitch with pre - warp civilizations , Captain Michael Burnham does n’t deny the existence of the Halem’nite god . Burnham reveals herself to Ohvaz ( Alfredo Narciso ) , a Halem’nite elder , and explains Burnham ’s conveyer and Halem’no ’s pelting are both the result of innovative technology . That get Ohvaz oppugn the beingness of gods all , andMichael respond with unfeigned incertitude , instead suggesting that the Halem’nite religion can coexist aboard bonk that technology is creditworthy for the pelting . It ’s not up to Burnham to resolve whether gods are tangible , just to tell Ohvaz how to keep the weather stations functional and the Halem’nite the great unwashed alive .
Burnham ’s agnostical compassion inStar Trek : Discoverystands in contrast to Captain Jean - Luc Picard ’s atheistic response to the Mintakans inStar Trek : The Next propagation . Captain Picard agrees to dispel Liko ’s notion that Picard is one of Mintaka III ’s ancient god , not just because Picardisn’ta god , but becauseJean - Luc himself believe that Liko ’s organized religion inanyreligion is a backward evolution . TheTNGportrayal of faith as a superstitious recitation that must be discarded for cultural phylogeny aligns withStar Trekcreator Gene Roddenberry ’s visual sensation of the future , but it ’s an insensitive lineage of thinking thatStar Trek : Discoveryrectifies .
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , season 1 , sequence 19 , " In the Hands of the Prophets " , Commander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) show similar deference for others ' culture when Ben tells his son Jake ( Cirroc Lofton ) that the Bajorans are n’t haywire to think the wormhole aliens are Prophets because they very well could be .
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 6 Raises Questions of Faith
Dr. Culber’s Storyline In “Whistlespeak” Is Synergistic With the A-plot
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , sequence 6 , " Whistlespeak " , allows science and faith to coexist on the same level . As Captain Burnham and Lieutenant Tilly address the notion of the Halem’nites , Dr. Hugh Culber ( Wilson Cruz ) search for a strong-arm , scientific intellect for feeling tie to something greater than himself . Culber theorizes the feel is an after - effect of lending his consistence to Trill host Jinaal inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 3 , " Jinaal " , but without an anomalous reading , the only explanation is a spiritual one . Framing Culber ’s newfound spirituality as positive instead of regressive is a beautiful conclusionthat reaffirm what Burnham differentiate Ohvaz on Halem’no .
religious belief can bring communities together by giving hope and consolation to citizenry in hard times .
By treating religion and engineering as separate , but equally valid construct , Star Trek : Discoveryis more in tune withStar Trek ’s overall substance of respecting polish and being tolerant of those unlike ourselvesthan Roddenberry ’s atheistic vision . Religion can be used as a dick to harm others , as Picard fears inStar Trek : The Next multiplication , but religion can also bring communities together by giving promise and comforter to people in difficult times , as the Halem’no organized religion does inStar Trek : Discovery . Burnham recognizes the benefits inherent to the Halem’nites ' beliefs , and respect their faith , make Burnham ’s approach to a Prime Directive usurpation better than Captain Jean - Luc Picard ’s .
Star Trek : Discovery and Star Trek : The Next Generation are stream on Paramount+ .
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