I wonder if anyone here has a judgement on the reliability and credibility of the "memory-alpha.org". I have referred to it informally for many years for ST esoterica, but am now trying to determine if I can use it as a basis for statements I make in this class. I don't need it to be a recognized authority, just a good faith judgement that it usually provides reliable information.
Thanks for the feedback to my initial post. "The Naked Time" is almost a perfect introduction to TOS, and for a while I planned on opening with that - and I might still if I find a suitable TNG episode to pair it with. The problem is that I just despise "The Naked Now" episode, and can not bear to introduce TNG to virgins with that. To be fair, I have not seen it in a long time (if it ever popped up as a rerun when I was watching those I would turn it off); I will give it another spin when I start reviewing the TNG in sequence next week and and see if it wears better. I will, in any case, use clips from TNN about Data and Yar in my unit on Star Trek Sex. I do have to keep reminding myself that this is, in the end, a psychology course and not a course in Star Trek; so most of the time I have to select episodes that have some direct relationship to and illustration of the psychological themes and readings assigned for the week. The only excuse I have to show episodes that do not directly relate to assigned reading is the first week, since I will not yet have been able to assign anything. That is why I am leaning towards City and Inner Light - two of my favorite episodes from both series, each of which have a general psychological sensibility, but no direct relation to the reading I will be assigning. I will be addressing racism one week, so will of course be assigning "Battlefield", and will show the clip from Plato's Stepchildren, along with an extended lecture and clips of a number of episodes from both TOS and TNG about the Prime Directive, and its relationship to a kind of neo-colonialism. I will likely use clips from several of the episodes David mentioned - I do wish "Dagger" was better. "Chain of Command II" is an absolute must - I will pair that with clips from some other episodes on torture and "brainwashing". I love Best of Both Worlds and Family so much that I will probably spend one whole class period just screening them back to back to back. Will do something similar with Space Seed and Wrath of Kahn. I have a week devoted to Memory, which will probably highlight "Conundrum", with clips from some others. I also have a week on Artificial Intelligence, which will probably focus on "The Measure of a Man" - but there are obviously a whole bunch of other good episodes to draw from - I have a soft spot for the one where Data decides not to tell his "mother" that she is an android, and I will probably show a clip montage of Kirk talking computers to death with paradoxes and illogic from the 4 or 5 episodes in which he uses that strategy (including one of my all time favorite Star Trek lines, from Spock: "Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD". I may just go ahead and show all of "I, Mudd", which I still liked when watching it again the other day). -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
