Der Anfang kommt immer schleichend
Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 13:07
Auch wenn der Vers schon älter ist, finde ich ihn doch immer wieder passend.
Mit dem ersten Glied ist die Kette geschmiedet.
Wenn die erste Rede zensiert,
der erste Gedanke verboten,
die erste Freiheit verweigert wird,
sind wir alle unwideruflich gefesselt.
Aus: Star Trek the next generation – Das Standgericht1

Freitag, 8. Mai 2009 7:32
YEAH! Star Trek Baby!
Hat mich seinerzeit schon immer erstaunt, wie sie – zumindest in den letzten TNG und DS9 Staffeln – solche Dinge so “subtil” untergebracht haben… Schade, dass dann die Frau ans Steuer gelassen wurde…
Btw: Ist Dir mal aufgefallen, dass bei den derzeitigen Kabel 1-Star Trek-Werbeplakaten, statt Janeway als Captain 7of9 als Officer abgebildet ist? Woran das wohl liegt… sind bestimmt auch nur inhaltliche Gründe gewesen. o.O
Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 0:53
TNG, bah. Picard ist doch ein Weichei.
Aber DS9 war schon das Genialste, solange keine Bajoraner und Drehkörper drin vorkamen sondern Jem’Hadar Vorta und Cardassianer.
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Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009 16:15
7of9 ist die einzige StarTrek-Frau, die das Steuer in die Hand bekommen darf… :p
Und Janeway – lieber far away. Picard hatte im Gegensatz zum laufenden Kummerkasten echt Stil. Wobei DS9 ca. ab Staffel 4 oder 5 mehr Koplexität zu bieten hatte. Action muss in Star Trek nicht sein.
Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009 20:03
Ich finde Jadzia Dax machte am Steuer der USS Defiant auch keine schlechte Figur.
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Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 8:32
Was man als Anwalt von Star Trek doch alles lernen kann…
Dienstag, 26. Mai 2009 3:40
Chekov sagt noch:
I was still a small child during the years of the Second World War. At some point, a heavy book appeared on our coffee table comprised mainly of pictures taken in concentration camps of dead and dying Jewish prisoners. It did not require much prompting for me to develop a well justified fear and hatred of all things German including the country’s entire population. Those feelings remained intact well into adulthood.
In 1992 I finally accepted an invitation to appear at a Star Trek Convention in the city of Augsburg near Munich. Once there, I made it a point to announce my heritage. If there was going to be a problem I wanted to confront it immediately. No one blinked. The people who came to the con were very enthusiastic, extremely supportive and, if I may indulge a weakness for sentimentality, really quite loving.
I’ve been back six times since then to conventions in Bonn, Berlin, Bremen, Darmstadt, Fulda and most recently Munster.
Each time the experience was overwhelmingly positive. The twenty five years of appearing in a country before a people I had despised for the first forty five years of my life has taught me two very important truths: If there is such a thing as a genetic predilection for evil then it is a heritage all of us, all mankind, must carry. History shows us that genocidal atrocities are not the province of one nation, one culture but are a burden that we must live with. China, Russia, The Sudan, Burma, South America, Great Britain, the United States – you could go on and on listing the guilty pasts (and presents) of societies throughout the ages. In fact, blaming one group of people as being inherently bad as opposed to the rest of us, is simply deflecting the responsibility we all must share.
The other thing I learned was that human beings, along with a predisposition to destroy each other, have inherited the gift of doing good. It is not always about survival of the individual and the concomitant aggression that leads to the devastation we have known but it’s also about the survival of the species and the humanitarian efforts that have been performed on its behalf. As much blame as we shoulder for what has gone wrong during our stay on this planet there is also much to rejoice in.
There is an amazing number of good people performing acts of kindness and philanthropy everywhere in the world.
My most recent experience involving pride in the human race came while I was in Germany and asked to attend a ceremony heralding the opening of a new building on a school campus. The town was Bottrop and the institution was the Hauptschule Welheim. I met students from the ages of about twelve to seventeen in the auditorium. There was a Q&A period during which I was asked questions that ranged from my Star Trek experiences to what I had encountered at the Thailand – Burmese border two summers before.
After that we were all escorted to the newly erected lunch room building. The staff and the administration of the school had determined that it would be called “Cafe Terra”. It was not hard to see why. The student body is composed of the children of immigrants from more than fifty countries. Over time, these families had come to Bottrop from the Middle East and the Far East, from Africa, from Eastern Europe, from almost every conceivable point on the globe. This truth was evident in the
distinctively different faces of the youngsters I met. After the ceremony I signed autographs. I stood there scribbling my name and reflecting on both the terrible history this nation had endured during the first half of the twentieth century but also on the grace and beauty with which it’s people now appear to have been imbued. Yeah, there are skinheads in Germany just as there are skinheads in the U.S. That will probably never change. But there is also an African American president in Washington and there is a multinational, multicultural, multiracial Hauptschule Welheim in a small city in the country of Germany. Star Trek foretold a time when we could all live together. I’m betting that we’re on our way there.
-Walter Koenig
http://www.walterkoenigsite.com/germanyblog.html
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Edit: Hab mal die Zeilenumbrüche korrigiert. MS.