It’s a fun, well executed episode. It just happens to be one of those occasions where the Trek writers betray their complete misunderstanding of evolution.
oh yeah, maybe so. i think for me, as a kid, it was a tale that showed me we, ie humans, are more similar and have more in common than may appear to us at first glance. good lesson at that time.
Yeah, it’s thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don’t let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the “teach the controversy” nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.
It’s a fun, well executed episode. It just happens to be one of those occasions where the Trek writers betray their complete misunderstanding of evolution.
Not to mention the scale of space and time
oh yeah, maybe so. i think for me, as a kid, it was a tale that showed me we, ie humans, are more similar and have more in common than may appear to us at first glance. good lesson at that time.
Yeah, it’s thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don’t let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the “teach the controversy” nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.