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| For the less cynical of people (I wouldn't technically include myself in this group), the New Year is synonymous with a fresh start. It inspires resolutions for better health, better habits, better relationships, and better lives, in short, hope for better. For me, no TV show epitomizes this hope quite like Star Trek: The Next Generation. Admittedly, I've only seen the first season (I'm not really a Trekkie, though, after watching this season, I'm seriously considering becoming one. I've even created a Star Trek board on Pinterest.), but it alone draws us deeply into a world that is advanced, actually exist, though one can hope), but because the creators of this show have a beautiful dream for a beautiful existence, and dreams reflect people's values and goals. There is hope for a world in which people, despite their mistakes, hope for and strive for the things that are right and good. To me, that hope is what makes this retro show the ideal series with which to start the new year. Stick around and I'll explain a few reasons why the values and achievements of this brave new world inspire hope for a better future. |
not only technologically, but socially and culturally, too. The Federation, which is an alliance of different planets and races, represents incredible understandings of medical science and psychology, as well egalitarianism and value for life, to a degree that would have been unprecedented during the late 1980's when this show first began to air, and is is still unprecedented today. As I watch the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise journey across the galaxy under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his right-hand man, Commander William Riker, I feel hopeful for the future. Not because I necessarily think that the future will evolve the way it does in the show (somehow I doubt that Vulcans will actually exist, though one can hope), but because the creators of this show have a beautiful dream for a beautiful existence, and dreams reflect people's values and goals. There is hope for a world in which people, despite their mistakes, hope for and strive for the things that are right and good. To me, that hope is what makes this retro show the ideal series with which to start the new year. Stick around and I'll explain a few reasons why the values and achievements of this brave new world inspire hope for a better future.
