empty thoughts
Jun. 14th, 2020 21:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladywandererI watched--in the loosest sense of the term, it was by no means in one straight sitting--Star Trek's "The Menagerie" last night. Maybe the better word is "finished".
I finished "The Menagerie" last night. It's one of those that seems oddly fitting, if edging slightly into horror. A race of telepaths who can create illusory lives for themselves and any in their sphere of influence, and a man paralyzed, his mind trapped in a body that no longer responds to him. The reality is daunting, the illusion is disconcerting, and the episode itself condemns neither. It simply points out that the one thing that all humans have in common, the thing that makes them unsuitable for the Talosian's titular menagerie, is an ingrained dislike of being imprisoned, a need to be free, an inability to quietly sit in a cage. The fact that Christopher Pike is sitting right there, his body having become that prison for his mind is almost incidental.
I finished "The Menagerie" last night. It's one of those that seems oddly fitting, if edging slightly into horror. A race of telepaths who can create illusory lives for themselves and any in their sphere of influence, and a man paralyzed, his mind trapped in a body that no longer responds to him. The reality is daunting, the illusion is disconcerting, and the episode itself condemns neither. It simply points out that the one thing that all humans have in common, the thing that makes them unsuitable for the Talosian's titular menagerie, is an ingrained dislike of being imprisoned, a need to be free, an inability to quietly sit in a cage. The fact that Christopher Pike is sitting right there, his body having become that prison for his mind is almost incidental.
