Exploring the final frontier, Star Trek offered peace, paper says
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By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Honoring Star Trek's50th anniversary, the Vatican newspaper said the overwhelmingly popular seriesgave the world a model of peace, tolerance and cooperation at a time of global tensions.The show -- whose first episode aired Sept.8, 1966 -- began during the Cold War. But "while builders of nuclear falloutshelters made buckets of money, especially in the United States, Star Trekproposed a true model of cooperation," the article said.Captain James Kirk and his faithful crew, itsaid, journeyed to distant galaxies and discovered new civilizations "inorder to propose peaceful relations (built) on a foundation of equality."Also significant and groundbreaking was themakeup of the crew of the starship Enterprise: an alien, an African-American woman and aJapanese man, it said. "Today is might seem totally normal,but it's important to remember that America at the time had recently emergedfrom a bloody war fought against Japan, too, and it was marked by deep...
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Honoring Star Trek's
50th anniversary, the Vatican newspaper said the overwhelmingly popular series
gave the world a model of peace, tolerance and cooperation at a time of global tensions.
The show -- whose first episode aired Sept.
8, 1966 -- began during the Cold War.
But "while builders of nuclear fallout
shelters made buckets of money, especially in the United States, Star Trek
proposed a true model of cooperation," the article said.
Captain James Kirk and his faithful crew, it
said, journeyed to distant galaxies and discovered new civilizations "in
order to propose peaceful relations (built) on a foundation of equality."
Also significant and groundbreaking was the
makeup of the crew of the starship Enterprise: an alien, an African-American woman and a
Japanese man, it said.
"Today is might seem totally normal,
but it's important to remember that America at the time had recently emerged
from a bloody war fought against Japan, too, and it was marked by deep racial
tensions." It also struggled with tense "relations with countries
beyond the Iron Curtain, far away just like Vulcan," the extraterrestrial
planet and home of Mr. Spock -- who was of mixed human-Vulcan descent.
The newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said
the show, which "marked an era," represents a "totally human
star voyage in search of new ways of understanding one another. A voyage that
is always needed."
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