Amnesia! Ancient technology! Asteroids! Hardly sounds tranquil, but it’s everything a forgetful Jim Kirk could ever want. Find out why when we put The Paradise Syndrome in the Mission Log.
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My two biggest issues with this episode:
Why didn’t the Preservers just automate the Obelisk?
Two months lead time and the Enterprise couldn’t divert an asteroid? Just park a shuttlecraft on it and have it nudge gently for two months. It would divert the asteroid’s course enough that it would miss the planet by miles.
Kirk, as Kurok, has a thing that Selesh thinks should belong to him. It’s no more complicated than that. Would Selesh rather see the thing destroyed than let Kurok continue to deprive him of it? Yes! Welcome to being a person. He’s petty and jealous — You know — In that way that people are. He doesn’t have an endgame beyond knocking Kurok down. The tribes traditions and his father’s death deprived him of his promised position of power in the tribe, and now this pretender has come along to strip him of his dignity. He’s mad and striking out in any way he can.
“These days, we wouldn’t cast white guys as Native Americans.”
*cough*Johnny Depp*cough*