I'm A Doctor, Not A Colonial Warrior Dammit!
Ron Moore officially began recycling Star Trek plots with tonight's gawd-awful "A Measure Of Salvation". Spoilers ahead, so jump now if you need to.
The plot revolved around the virus that wiped out a Cylon base ship. The Cylons are afraid that any Cylons who die and get resurrected could spread the virus to the entire Cylon race and wipe them out. Sounds familiar. Oh yeah, Data created a mathematical formula that, when downloaded into the Borg collective concious, would destroy the entire race. Enter 20 minutes of postulating on "genocide".
Maybe I'm lacking the necessary humanity to "get this" but if the Cylons / Borg are intent on destroying your entire race, and you have a way to stop them, why wouldn't you? As the Borglons are closing in and murdering the last of you, do you reach up your broken and bloody hand and pat yourself on the back for being the better species? Faced with genocide of your own race, do you not defend yourself? I realize that this is turning the other cheek to the extreme but I just don't see the drama here. Maybe Helo didn't know any of the BILLION people that were killed on Caprica.
I think Mal said it best in Firefly. "Someone tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back."
The plot revolved around the virus that wiped out a Cylon base ship. The Cylons are afraid that any Cylons who die and get resurrected could spread the virus to the entire Cylon race and wipe them out. Sounds familiar. Oh yeah, Data created a mathematical formula that, when downloaded into the Borg collective concious, would destroy the entire race. Enter 20 minutes of postulating on "genocide".
Maybe I'm lacking the necessary humanity to "get this" but if the Cylons / Borg are intent on destroying your entire race, and you have a way to stop them, why wouldn't you? As the Borglons are closing in and murdering the last of you, do you reach up your broken and bloody hand and pat yourself on the back for being the better species? Faced with genocide of your own race, do you not defend yourself? I realize that this is turning the other cheek to the extreme but I just don't see the drama here. Maybe Helo didn't know any of the BILLION people that were killed on Caprica.
I think Mal said it best in Firefly. "Someone tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back."
posted by Mkae at
11:52 PM
4 Comments:
It's very interesting to read the differing views between Mark's and Evan's blog
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TheGirard, at 1:12 PM
I'm not a fan of genocide, personally. Nor the death penalty. We should discuss sometime. I didn't think the episode was great, but it was pretty good. The lectures on this show are starting to be too obvious for me. Maybe I've reached some kind of saturation point.
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Shocho, at 6:58 AM
Reminds me of something I read once about the warring states during the feudal era in Japan. When firearms came onto the scene, some of them refused to use them because they weren't honorable.
Strangely, they never got mentioned much in the history books. Largely because they weren't around to write them.
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Jason, at 7:13 AM
Yeah Shocho, that would be a great discussion. I'm not a fan of murder on large scales, but if the Galactica is willing to destroy Cylon base stars AND resurrection ships, why not use the virus to end the threat forever?
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Mkae, at 7:27 AM
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