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If you haven’t checked out SciFiCatholic yet, you must. Great stuff.

Here’s something I came across there recently regarding Star Trek:

Thanks to two readers who alerted me to an excellent essay and a news item.

James Pawlak of Crusader Knight sent me Raymond J. Keating’s article “Faith, or Lack Thereof, in Star Trek,” which appears at OrthodoxyToday.org. Most people are probably aware that Gene Roddenberry was an atheist, and it is reflected in his most famous creation, as Keating explains. However, I object to Keating’s insistence that a similar rejection or ignorance of religion exists in most sf or even most TV sf. Though I don’t see much television, I specifically remember a Babylon 5 episode celebrating the diversity of human religion, and it seems the remake of Battlestar Galactica, though I didn’t particularly like what I saw of it, also has religion on its mind.

“Several conservatives writing on NR seemed to wrestle with being fans of this rather liberal television show. It’s an interesting point, including for this self-confessed conservative Trekker. Perhaps it’s as straightforward as a combination of interesting characters, compelling stories that often involve some big issues to debate and discuss, cool space stuff, and general sci-fi geekiness.”

Here at The Sci Fi Catholic where we don’t believe everything has to match our worldview to be good fiction, we’ll just say, “Stop wrestling, Ray.”

(SciFiCatholic, 10/22/07)

LINKS

Blog: The Sci Fi Catholic
http://www.scificatholic.com/

Article: “Faith, or Lack Thereof, in Star Trek”
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles7/KeatingStarTrek.php