🖖Star Trek TNG S07E17 Full Length Reaction
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This week we saw Picard in his element unraveling an archeologically-flavoured mystery. Engage! 🖖
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I used to not like this episode. However, I began to see it from an archeological, anthropological, and even astronomical perspective and then started finding it interesting. And of course, Data’s different personalities have become a meme around the house.😁 Also, I would’ve used a treble clef to signify music too. In fact, I have. Got my face painted and wanted to have something painted that represented something about me. So I had a flaming sun with a treble clef in the middle painted on my face. What happens in this episode(as I understand it), is Picard unraveling the mystery of how this culture symbolically represented its own celestial objects. When you understand that this culture is using symbolism and metaphorical personalities to represent its own celestial bodies, you can then go back and watch the episode from that perspective, and the things the different personalities say can then be used to understand the nature of what it is they represent or speak of. For example, Masaka represents the sun and Ihat speaks of how she lets people die of thirst, and burns them alive. This could mean that the sun for the planet this culture lived on may have been extremely hot and hard to survive. People from this culture may have frequently suffered death from dehydration or from fatal doses of radiation from their star. Also, Masaka’s father describes being cold. Put this together with how he speaks of having too many children to know who is who, and we could theorize that the father is a supernova remnant that forms other stars, including the star represented by Masaka. He is cold because he no longer generates the heat he once did as a star, and since it is theorized that supernova remnants produce stars, perhaps that’s what Masaka’s father represents. Maybe the planet this civilization lived on exists closely with this supernova remnant. Close enough to be greatly effected by the hot star represented by Masaka in their culture’s mythology. It’s possible that the archive is a mythological representation of that civilization’s star system. When looked at from that perspective, then it becomes a really fascinating episode about how this culture represented its own home star system, and it becomes clear that through that cultural archive alone, the Enterprise crew may have discovered the physical nature of the star system that culture lived in. Instead of discovering and learning of a new star system in the normal way-by traveling there-they may have discovered it through the archive’s symbolic representation of that system. Perhaps the crew of the Enterprise could even trace the archive’s path back to its system of origin, go to that system and through what they learned from the archive, understand the ancient history of that system relative to what the Enterprise crew would see of it in their own present time. Fascinating isn’t it? It’s a much more intelligent and interesting episode than I understood it to be for many decades really. It feels much more well-written to me than it used to.
AzureSolas
2025-09-15 10:41:07 +0000 UTCALL this episode shows is that the aztecs were aliens
scott osborne
2025-09-03 03:18:38 +0000 UTC
